[Bug 50496] OpenGL executable crashes unless wine is run as superuser.

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50496

--- Comment #9 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to adam from comment #8)
> yes it does. unless I run it with sudo. should I attach my /root/.wine?
>
> also, I got windows 10 running within KVM (with GVT-g which is basically
> intel gpu passthrough) and I updated the program so that it works properly
> in windows, and I still get this problem with wine. I wonder if this is a
> problem with MinGW-w64 and not wine? I don't compile with wineg++ because I
> statically link GLEW and SDL2.

How are you creating a new prefix? Why aren't you creating it as a normal user?

In general you shouldn't run Wine as root; it's designed to run as a normal
user.