http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421
------- Additional Comments From z77y16@hotmail.com 2006-22-05 09:53 ------- Many people including myself have inquired many times about a noticeable performance difference with 2D games between Wine and Windows (Starcraft, Dark Reign and presumably many others). A recent post confirmed 2D drawing in Wine isn't optimal (sorry for the long link). http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/tree/browse_fr...
I am adding this quick note so that user questions are more directly answered by this report. It'll also explain better why this issue is listed in a game appdb entry.