[Bug 9685] Punkbuster removes me from game for UNKNOWN WINDOWS API FUNCTION [131124]

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9685





--- Comment #168 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-06-11 11:08:25 ---
(In reply to comment #166)
> (In reply to comment #161)
> > It's most likely illegal under the DMCA and futile. The traffic is encrypted,
> > and PunkBuster can change any time without warning.
> The DMCA is a criminalization and abbusive law that only applyes to USA. Most
> countries do not have such a limitation, and it's unlikely someday will. This
> being said, if a definitive fix appears, it may be hosted in another country.
> 
> In reply to comment #164)
> > One could use Virtualbox to run games with Punkbuster since that way you could
> > have the real windows dlls. This isn't a fix for this Wine bug, but it could
> > help lot of people having this bug by providing an extra method. 
> > I haven't tested this, but in theory it could work perfectly.
> You can't use Virtualbox to run most games that uses Punkbuster, because of the
> lack of Direct3D acceleration. Yes, you can use Swiftshader, but it's painfully
> slow. Yes, latest version of Virtualbox supports OpenGL (never tested), maybe
> some OpenGL games will run.

This has nothing to do with fixing the bug, please take such discussions off
bugzilla.

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