https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38092
--- Comment #7 from Andrew Eikum aeikum@codeweavers.com --- Installing openal? Do you mean with winetricks, or openal for your operating system? If the latter, then maybe the game switched to use xaudio2 (very recently implemented in Wine) instead of dsound.
It makes sense that surround sound regressed in 1.7.34, since there was work done on surround sound in dsound during that release.
I'm downloading FF13 now (it's huuuuuge!) to try to reproduce this on my end.