@hotshotkev: I use an x86 kernel for the same reason. @Martin Gregorie: This is the output of top when Drakensang crashes and throws an out of memory error (I only included the first three processes as all other processes use less than 1% of memory at that time): Tasks: 110 total, 1 running, 108 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4147096k total, 3537336k used, 609760k free, 31700k buffers Swap: 1959892k total, 0k used, 1959892k free, 1957400k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4632 melvin 20 0 2992m 1.3g 49m S 2 34.0 4:20.98 drakensang.exe 4635 melvin 20 0 6108 3200 684 S 1 0.1 0:05.56 wineserver 2848 root 20 0 72940 56m 14m S 1 1.4 2:13.54 Xorg