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.

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tubs 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Isn’t this because the wine db has those tweaks pre configured?

	▲	Xirdus 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Windows used to be half operating system, half preconfigured compatibility tweaks for all kinds of applications. That's how it kept its backwards compatibility.
	▲	shakna 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		More a case of DirectX radically changing how it worked [0]. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darti...
	▲	realusername 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.