[Bug 53553] New: F.E.A.R. won't work with DSOAL surround sound restoration DLL replacement

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53553

Bug ID: 53553
           Summary: F.E.A.R. won't work with DSOAL surround sound
                    restoration DLL replacement
           Product: Wine
           Version: 7.14
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: dsound
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F.E.A.R. (e.g., "Fear Platinum" from GOG)
2. Get DSOAL from https://github.com/kcat/dsoal and compile dsound.dll
3. Get latest OpenAL-Soft bin from https://openal-soft.org/
4. Unzip soft_oal.dll from its bin\Win32 directory
5. Rename that file to dsoal-aldrv.dll
6. Place both dsoal-aldrv.dll and DSOAL's dsound.dll in same directory as
FEAR.exe
7. Run game
8. Enter sound menu

Expected Results:
When running F.E.A.R. with the DLL replacement DSOAL for surround sound
restoration, the advanced sound options "Enable HW mixing", "Enable EAX 2.0"
and "Enable EAX Advanced HD" should be available in the sound menu and surround
sound including EAX effects should work.

Current Results:
The sound options remain greyed-out.

Observations:
F.E.A.R. won't load dsound.dll from anywhere but syswow64. If one places the
DSOAL dsound.dll there (replacing Wine's own), and then sets dsound.dll to
"native" e.g. through winecfg, everything works. Screenshot:

If one sets dsound.dll to "native" e.g. through winecfg and then loads the game
without replacing Wine's dsound.dll in syswow64 (but with the DSOAL files in
the F.E.A.R. folder): "Failed to initialize sound driver 'SndDrv.dll' on
startup. Screenshot: https://paste.pics/I4DO0. No sound during game or menus,
only during intro movie. Available sound options: https://paste.pics/I4DOD