http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20724
--- Comment #7 from Chris chris.kcat@gmail.com 2009-11-18 09:18:13 --- (In reply to comment #6)
I have openAL 1.8 installed and no repository w/ 1.10 flying around, so I didn't try that. however your trick with the ~/.alsoftrc worked flawlessly and the game started without problems.
that means this is not a wine bug and won't/can't be fixed by any patch to the wine source?
Yeah. Given that the .alsoftrc settings fixed it, that pretty much confirms my original thought and it should be fixed by updating OpenAL to 1.10.
sorry for not giving you a +relay log - even before steam managed to connect to the server the log had already grown to 2 GB...
No problem. Don't really need it now, anyway.