https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53553
--- Comment #6 from Matthias Elsdoerfer mr.matt.eastwood@gmx.de --- @mirh, quick follow-up: I set Win XP compatibility and dsound = native for FEAR.EXE using winecfg after applying both solutions you suggested. F.E.A.R. complained about not being able to to load SndDrv.dll, and I got no sound. The same happened when I put the two DSOAL .dlls into the same directory as FEAR.exe. Only when I put the DSOAL dsound.dll back into syswow64 (overwriting a 400-odd kb large one that was there) did surround sound start working again.