[Bug 31113] Civilization V crashes after specific amount of game turns

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31113

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--- Comment #122 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #119)
> None of the workarounds worked for me; if the problem is really the
> findfirstfile function, then it is just a matter of luck.
>
> So I ended up in using an hardfile formatted in ntfs.
> Now i'm at turn 185 and all is still working.
> - The hardfile is 10GB, i think it is enough for CivV plus addons.
> - $CIVILIZATION_WINEPREFIX is the wine prefix where civilization is actually
>
> installed
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=./civ5.loopfile bs=1G count=10
> # mkfs.ntfs -f -I -s 4096 -F ./civ5.loopfile 
> # mkdir /mnt/civ5.loopdir
> - # mount ./civ5.loopfile /mnt/civ5.loopdir -o loop -t ntfs-3g
>
> # cp -a $CIVILIZATION_WINEPREFIX/ /mnt/civ5.loopdir/
> - # export WINEPREFIX=/mnt/civ5.loopdir/
>
> And play as usual from the new location.
> Actions marked as "+" need to be executed every time of course.
>
> (...now try to do that on a fat32 windows system eheheh...)

Can you tell more ab(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #119)
> None of the workarounds worked for me; if the problem is really the
> findfirstfile function, then it is just a matter of luck.
>
> So I ended up in using an hardfile formatted in ntfs.
> Now i'm at turn 185 and all is still working.
> - The hardfile is 10GB, i think it is enough for CivV plus addons.
> - $CIVILIZATION_WINEPREFIX is the wine prefix where civilization is actually
>
> installed
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=./civ5.loopfile bs=1G count=10
> # mkfs.ntfs -f -I -s 4096 -F ./civ5.loopfile 
> # mkdir /mnt/civ5.loopdir
> - # mount ./civ5.loopfile /mnt/civ5.loopdir -o loop -t ntfs-3g
>
> # cp -a $CIVILIZATION_WINEPREFIX/ /mnt/civ5.loopdir/
> - # export WINEPREFIX=/mnt/civ5.loopdir/
>
> And play as usual from the new location.
> Actions marked as "+" need to be executed every time of course.
>
> (...now try to do that on a fat32 windows system eheheh...)

Can you tell more about hardfile? What is this?