https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46627
--- Comment #16 from mirh mirh@protonmail.ch --- Ok so guys.. I have another trail https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/comments/4ku2e9/for_those_who_have_pro...
While the game always has safedisc, it seems like there are some versions that can somehow still run in W10 even though the driver is blacklisted.
I could also check the "Just for Games" french re-release of Most Wanted, and it works out of the box there. You still need the disk inserted at all times, and just "taking a normal ISO" of it is not enough to bypass checks, but secdrv.sys doesn't seem to get ever loaded. Yet both protectionid and alcohol reports safedisc v4.
I don't know how any of this makes sense, but maybe it is the culprit.