I've currently ranked it as silver - there are only 2 reasons for this:
1) I haven't played the game all the way through, so I can't confirm it will play till the end
2) There is an annoying bug in windowed mode that has to do with the positioning of the cursor - this is only at the beginning menu and it's a fairly easy fix, all you need to do is move the mouse off window, then on window on the side that is closest to the mouse (tested left and right, but not top and bottom) if you get the right side, the mouse should line up correctly then stay in sync.
I have run this game with CD (whatever test they use to check for the cd doesn't prevent the game from running) and I have tested the nocd patch for it.
This is the retail version of the game, installed from CD using my default bottle that has DX installed in it.
The game was made by Westwood studios while it still existed. At that point from what I've read, Westwood was a part of EA before EA closed the westwood division (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_Studios)