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Fix Persona 5 Strikers crashing on Intel 12th gen and newer CPUs
As documented here, Persona 5 Strikers will crash on Intel 12th gen and newer CPUs due to E-Cores conflicting with its DRM, Denuvo.
So I created a patch that limits the game to using P-Cores on Intel CPUs of Alder Lake generation or newer. I tried to implement it using WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY, but the game exhibits the same behavior with that. So instead, I set the game to use taskset for this and it allows the game to not crash during the initial loading screen.
The game still freezes after that due to missing video codecs, but when I tested this in GE-Proton, it worked on my laptop using an Intel Core i9 14900HX. So I think this patch can serve as a first step to fixing this game under regular Proton.