“IOPL not enabled” with Visio 2003 in Wine

04 August 2008

If you’re trying to run Visio 2003 in Wine, and you’re getting the “IOPL not enabled” error message (or it hangs at the splash screen), try this:

  • Make sure you’re running the latest version of Wine. (The latest stable version at the time of writing is version 1.0.)
    • Type winecfg in a terminal. Go to the Libraries tab, and add an entry called gdiplus. Then, edit the entry you just added, and select “Native (Windows)”. Do not select “Native then Builtin” — that doesn’t work (for some reason)!</ul> I thought I’d post this, because I spent absolutely ages trying to get this working, because Google failed me. Hopefully this post will get some Google juice.