http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4730
------- Additional Comments From Speeddymon@gmail.com 2006-31-03 13:11 ------- Oh. lol ok. In that case, just make sure you arent running any other sound servers, like arts, or whatever esd's replacement is, or jack or anything. Those are known to cause problems because they block access to the sound hardware, and when wine is configured to use them, IIRC, they have a bit of a lag with playing the sounds.
another thing to try is playing a sound with the aplay command in the console. If it plays, then you know that there is no sound server running, or that if there is one, it is configured properly to allow other programs access to the sound hardware. If it doesn't play, or give an error, then you know there is still a sound server running, that needs to be killed.