https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46627
--- Comment #12 from mirh mirh@protonmail.ch --- Mhh ok, dumb of me not to notice those temp files. And if I focus to google in russian for the софтклабa version, safedisc seems more like it.
But could it be they were using a newer drm version than western retail though (indeed I couldn't find a patch anywhere released for that)? Perhaps some slightly more updated version of safedisc was what wasn't working with staging 4.1 in XP mode. http://www.nfsunlimited.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=738 https://www.nfsplanet.com/nfs8_patch.php?lang=eng