Comment by shakna
1 day ago
Anything around DirectX 10 and older has issues with Windows, these days.
One more popular example is Grid 2, another is Morrowind. Both crash on launch, unless you tweak a lot of things, and even then it won't always succeed.
Need for Speed II: SE is "platinum" on Wine, and pretty much unable to be run at all on Windows 11.
Isn’t this because the wine db has those tweaks pre configured?
Windows used to be half operating system, half preconfigured compatibility tweaks for all kinds of applications. That's how it kept its backwards compatibility.
More a case of DirectX radically changing how it worked [0].
[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darti...
It's because wine OS selector actually tries to match bug for bug the OS version you set but Window's one gave up after Windows 7.