https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30787
--- Comment #5 from Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com --- (In reply to Wylda from comment #4)
Still present in wine-1.7.28, but starting times are similar:
- Win98: 1min 35sec
- WinXP: 1min 21sec
Yes, in recent Wine versions loading times are roughly the same whether I'm using the default WinXP profile or Win98 profile (more than 3 minutes on my system). It's probably because nowadays Wine uses the built-in msvc* dlls unless you override them in winecfg. The game comes bundled with it's own msvcp71 and msvcr71 dlls, if I override msvcr71 to native,builtin, then the map editor loads in less than 5 seconds in Win98 mode. Native msvcr71 has no effect on loading times when using the default XP profile, interestingly.
wine-1.7.49-104-gbd7f43d Fedora 22 32-bit Tested with the GOG.com version