Porsche Unleashed! That game taught me how to do real life 180s and 360s and that may favourite car colour is deep green. Great race replays too.

No tips or tricks, really. Check protondb. I know a few of those older games have works sure to EA launcher and such.

I forgot the details but the 2005 Most Wanted has an unofficial update pack that brings widescreen and other creature comforts. It was well supported except I could never get lan-play to work on my Win10 hosts. I wish I had a link but everything I find is piecemeal and the patch I had years ago combined the popular ones to one patch.

I have the og NFS MW running via bottles. It wouldn't install via isos so I installed it on a spare windows machine from isos and copied the folder over. Took a little fiddling to get the bottles profile into the right state but it is possible :)

I’ve had some good success just playing old games in a Windows XP virtual machine. Doesn’t need much resources and if you set up file share between your regular OS and your virtual machine, you can download the ISOs and load them as virtual disk drives. Easy peasy installation without any WINE configuration or emulators.

You can just add them to Steam as a third-party game and select Proton as a compatibility tool. Regarding NFS ProStreet, 1.1 cracked version doesn’t work on Wine/Proton, for whatever reason

I don't own any NFS, but when i install an old game from iso, i first try bottles
If it's not working then lutris