http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20177
--- Comment #14 from Michael B toxatec@web.de 2009-10-01 09:11:32 --- UT3 didn't start with hardware OpenAL for me too until I set
[ALAudio.ALAudioDevice] ... DeviceName = Generic Hardware
in the UTEngine.ini, although I didn't see a connection as that string was reset to 'DeviceName =' (empty) when the game started.. So I thought it was something temporary that prevented UT3 from starting. I don't have/find any alsoftrc file, so I didn't test those settings.
btw, I'm using openal-1.8.466, and I can't hear any strange sounds (except of the regular ut sounds :) .