wine users - Apr 2010 - Re: How can I detect WINE from my program?

I would like to reply to this discussion about why having something to detect
wine.
You know, there is some things (for example, things like GameGuard for Lineage
II, or other game protection things) which would never work in wine because of
the way how they work (if I am mistaken, please, provide a link to a valid
accepted bugzilla bug). But these things are a vital part of some programs, and
they work like a charm in Windows, but making those programs completely useless
because just of these kinds of system. There is no way for programmers to add
some basic compatibility with wine, and a lot of people are thinking that wine
is useless because it is not able to run their favorite game for example. They
would never understand why such things are unimplemented.
So - just give please devs an easy workaround for such things please!

Evengard wrote:
> So - just give please devs an easy workaround for such things please!
No we won't.

I'm sure any game maker that uses GG doesn't care much about Linux or
most gamers for that matter. Installing a root kit just to keep games from
cheating opening your _whole system_ to any sort of an attack tells you
something. Even if you give those game makers a mechanism to detect Wine they
won't let their game to play on Wine anyway. In fear that some one might
cheat more.

And if you'd read the original conversation you'd know there are lots of
ways to detect Wine. Those who really want to - will use one of them.

Hi,

        I just saw your thread about Game guard. I need littlle more data about
it as i want to guard my PC and the games too.



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