http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14559
--- Comment #61 from Rob rob.verduijn@gmail.com 2011-11-21 01:57:01 CST --- I've had the same problem, until I realized that I did a clean install and that opensuse enables pulse audio by default.
Switching off pulse-audio and reverting back to good old alsa did the trick for me.
On suse this is done by issuing the command: setup-pulseaudio --disable
Could it be that ubuntu has been so kind to 'improve' your linux experience by enabling pulse audio ?
Rob