Take a Look at Wine 1.4

“The biggest change is a true “device independent bitmaps” (DIB)
graphics engine. This engine performs software graphics rendering
for the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) API, which Wine has
never supported before. Note, however, that Windows offers lots of
different graphics APIs. Wine already had support for the
better-known Direct3D and DirectDraw APIs, which also received a
speedup.

Still, the result of the new engine is considerably faster
rendering for a variety of applications. The DIB code was actually
developed by Transgaming, one of the commercial vendors that makes
use of Wine in its own product line.

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