I had already looked at bug # 27298 (The Witcher 2 Slow Performance on any setting.) as well as http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=23504&iTestingId=64212 My problem is it not laucher is not even starting which is different from the performance problem. When I tried the 'WINEDEBUG=-all wine application.exe' I still get 'fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0'