Madden 2008 mouse flickers on and off rapidly while moving and creates CPU load

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The game runs fine except for when you're moving the mouse. It flickers on an off really fast and causes the rest of the game to lag really bad. The game is playable if you can get past the menus but trying to anything in the game's menus (like franchise mode) is very difficult and frustrating.

I've had the best performance luck with Lutris/wine so I figured I'd post this here. I found a diff online where someone reported this same issue with a different game. I've tried to build the Lutris/wine source myself with the patch included but I can't get the 'make' command to complete. I'm posting the diff here in the hopes that maybe someone with more ability than me can use it.

diff --git a/dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c b/dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c
index 186899fb16..9aaa9a18f9 100644
--- a/dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c
+++ b/dlls/winex11.drv/mouse.c
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ void set_window_cursor( Window window, HCURSOR handle )
         XUnlockDisplay( gdi_display );
     }
 
+    if (!handle)
+      return;
     XDefineCursor( gdi_display, window, cursor );
     /* make the change take effect immediately */
     XFlush( gdi_display );