[Bug 24777] New: Warlords III: Darklords Rising demo installer fails to start

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24777

Summary: Warlords III: Darklords Rising demo installer fails to
                    start
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.5
          Platform: x86
               URL: http://download.cnet.com/Warlords-III-Darklords-Rising
                    -demo/3000-7562_4-10020482.html
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: kernel32
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=31326)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=31326)
screenshot showing the error message

The installer of Warlords III: Darklords Rising (demo) shows an error dialogue
on startup (see attached screenshot). Pressing on <OK> terminates the
installer.
There is no terminal output at all.

The installer ceased to work since Wine-1.1.31. The result of regression
testing:

86c6021c71a563af88c1a8cc23ea489e92c8ca70 is the first bad commit
commit 86c6021c71a563af88c1a8cc23ea489e92c8ca70
Author: Alexandre Julliard 
Date:   Thu Oct 8 19:11:58 2009 +0200

kernel32: Reimplement GetPrivateProfileString16 on top of 32-bit functions
and move it to file16.c.

:040000 040000 8c8e93e5bab3d7db358a745922f4ee27f99797e6
cd4b25e37089d23c1fbe1df0e5ee1a481d2a9a8f M    dlls

git checkout 86c6021c71a563af88c1a8cc23ea489e92c8ca70 the installer is broken
git revert 86c6021c71a563af88c1a8cc23ea489e92c8ca70 the installer works as
intended.

Link to the demo added to URL (18 MB)
Author of the patch added to CC.

Fedora 13 x86
Wine was compiled from source