http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14200
--- Comment #29 from Kevin Meyer billy65bob@gmail.com 2013-11-13 21:51:09 CST --- The state of wine's GDI backend hasn't really changed at all; prolonged play will still result in an "out of handles" error.
But the bug technically isn't relevant anymore, as DirectDrawRenderer now defaults to opengl, a backend which does not exhibit this problem.