https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38313
--- Comment #6 from Yuki cute.dark.sorcerer@gmail.com --- currently, I am not using any .asoundrc. The one I used would mix sound to a 4.1 setup, even if it was stereo only. I used it to see if this could work around this wine bug, but it didn't.
Anyways, here's the terminal output. It's quite long, but the part which does not have center sound comes at the end. This is on a new wineprefix, only apps installed are steam and skyrim along with it's dependencies. (It's also a modded skyrim game, but there's no difference in sound. the missing front/back sound also happens for vanilla skyrim)
used wine version: 1.7.41 WoW64 setup (via emerge installed, gentoo x64)