[Bug 56391] New: So Blonde: very long loading times

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56391

Bug ID: 56391
           Summary: So Blonde: very long loading times
           Product: Wine
           Version: 9.3
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: Ubuntu

Game:
"So Blonde" European Retail DVD 1.01 version (English, French and German).
Point-and-click game developed by Wizarbox and released in 2008.
I couldn't find the game on either Steam or GOG. However, for those who want to
confirm the bug, the game is easily found in The Internet Archive Software
Collection.

OS:
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64bit.

Wine:
wine-9.3 development version (staging version is also affected).
Default Wine configuration, unmodified.
Clean Wine directory.

Description:
The loading times are very long: loading of the game menu, of a new game, of a
save game, between two screens (in the game), and so on.
Loadings last more than a minute, whereas on the same computer but running
Windows, they last less than five seconds.
This problem has been mentioned in AppDB since 2009 ("Every loading takes a
long time"), but has not been the subject of a bug report.

I don't know if this is relevant, but here's the +relay,+seh debug trace I
posted as part of another bug related to the same game (Bug 56390). It weighs
12.6 GB (59.7 MB after compression with rzip).
https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/764a0488-9e26-4d10-ae74-9d89e49cce80