Rico: >As your log shows, wine still uses the builtin d3dx9_36.dll. And your >setup mostly won't work for dlls which wine ships. You forgot to set >the dll to native in winecfg (Tab: Libraries) or on the command line >(e.g. WINEDLLOVERRIDES=d3dx9_36=n WINEDLLOVERRIDES=d3dx9_36=n wine Gothic3.exe crashes immediately >, see http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/x258). If you don't >know how, you might use winetricks to install d3dx9_36.dll, which >does the steps needed for you. That's fine for me. winetricks has now a very nice interface. :) The start menu is now there and Gothic 3 can be started. Still the issues with the mouse and the sky, so it will be better to boot into WinXP for playing Gothic 3 for now. Thanks for helping. Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)