http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685
--- Comment #85 from EA Durbin ead1234@hotmail.com 2007-10-25 18:10:08 --- --- quote --- If I would post infos/patches to fix this issue, it will open doors for having working hacks/cheats again. Cheating paradise, talk about easy hardware ban evasion whatever. --- quote ---
Wine already allows you to spoof your hard drive serial # and spoofing your mac address isn't hard, I think that's all evenbalance uses to issue hardware bans.
As for cheating paradise, it's better than not being able to play at all due to punkbuster. Evenbalance refuses to support, or even assist projects like wine and cedega. I personally wouldn't mind giving them some incentive to be a little more community friendly.
Anastasius, I'm curious about the thunking solution, could you elaborate a little more on how the thunking approach works? The last version of America's Army in Linux was 2.3, does it use the same punkbuster version as the newer windows version, are there conflicts between the Windows and Linux versions? How does the thunking approach work?