http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14613
Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #3 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy@kievinfo.com 2008-07-23 18:06:11 --- If you have one driver loaded for one program how do you proposing to unload that driver and load another driver for second program? Oh you can't, those programs are running at the same time, so they will use one or the other driver.
No this is a "system" wide setting that can not be set per app. Same as you can't have two versions of wineserver running for a single wineprefix.
No Unless you have some other ideas, this is won't fix.
The comment you linked to is bogus. It avoids the problem not fixes it. Pulse audio is deficient by design and does not provide enough functionality to Wine. It's claim that it has perfect mixing capabilities doesn't hold the water it seems. Otherwise you wouldn't need to disable sound for Steam so something else can use that sound. So no point in fixing something that's broken by design.
Closing won't fix.