https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39849
--- Comment #2 from sworddragon2@aol.com --- (In reply to Andrew Eikum from comment #1)
Do you have the "Audio" driver setting set in your registry?
No, the key doesn't exist.
(In reply to Andrew Eikum from comment #1)
If not, then we need to probe each type of audio driver to determine which is available. For winepulse, we try to load libpulse in order to contact the PA server.
Sounds plausible but if this probing is a normal behavior I would not expect to see an error if Wine finds out that a specific audio driver can't be used (except maybe if all probes are failing).