ok, sorry about that, I am a command line guy, but not at all comfortable with wine yet, just haven't really played with it, here is the command line output, the launcher opens from the desktop icon.. but not from command line, I may be attempting to run the wrong program in the folder as well, again most threads I have found on rift say everything works but the... (insert in-game problem) Code: s3ct10n_8@wreckingball~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/RIFT Game$ wine rift.exe err:module:import_dll Library d3dx9_43.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe" failed, status c0000135 thanks again neganx