http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685
Stefan Dösinger stefan@codeweavers.com changed:
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--- Comment #185 from Stefan Dösinger stefan@codeweavers.com 2012-01-08 04:36:18 CST --- Basically: If you have the CD in the drive(or are properly online activated, etc), the game starts. If you don't, it doesn't. Ie, the DRM finds the environment it expects from Windows and behaves like it does on Windows.
For an example how this might look, see 10273. SafeDisc does some statistical tests on the API, which we can satisfy with quite a bit of work and the right compiler. PunkBuster checks if the API code is byte-for-byte equal to the Windows implementation, which we cannot satisfy(next to impossible technically, would violate Microsoft copyright).