[Bug 51077] "The Settlers V: Heritage of Kings" fails to launch with Wine >=5.21

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51077

--- Comment #6 from firlaevhans.fiete at protonmail.com ---
(In reply to Alexandre Julliard from comment #5)
> Stupid app apparently doesn't allow negative timestamps.
> Does it run on a recent Windows? They have hashed timestamps too nowadays.

I'm pretty sure I ran this game just fine without modifications on Windows 10
before but now that you're saying it I do seem to remember that some people had
problems running the game on Win10. I don't currently have a machine running
Windows 10 to test though.

I totally forgot about this but apparently there's a patched version that works
on Windows 10.
I have no idea who made this patch and the download link I found is literally
some random file sharing site and the link was shared on some forum by someone.
Seems legit. The .exe files check out fine on VirusTotal though.
https://www.siedler-maps.de/forum.php?action=showthread&postid=147456 (german
forum)
https://workupload.com/file/VwbhS5Z (sketchy download link)

And someone in the forum mentioned something about timestamps that causes
problems with Win10.
I just tried this patched executable and it actually does launch with Wine 6.7.
I could have sworn last time I tried it this patch did not work in Wine at all,
with any version. Oh well.
Also, I think there are problems with LAN Multiplayer with this patched
version, particularly when mixing games with and without the patch.

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