https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21267
--- Comment #9 from mirh mirh@protonmail.ch --- (In reply to winetest from comment #8)
Last 2 comments say that this is expected behaviour of the game.
I would say abandoned bug. You can't even improve this without testing against newer wine.
Just found this https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14322#Comm...
Which quite likely means this was never a bug in the first place (aside of what's mentioned in comment 3 at most)