http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20724
--- Comment #6 from knipl@in.tum.de 2009-11-18 08:52:17 --- I have openAL 1.8 installed and no repository w/ 1.10 flying around, so I didn't try that. however your trick with the ~/.alsoftrc worked flawlessly and the game started without problems.
that means this is not a wine bug and won't/can't be fixed by any patch to the wine source?
sorry for not giving you a +relay log - even before steam managed to connect to the server the log had already grown to 2 GB...