Detructor wrote: > I'm using ubuntu 12.04 and installed wine via the PPA that is linked there -> http://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu > > from what I found on the web, that PulseAudio crap is compiled with wine?! where could I get a 'good' version aside from self-compiling? Ask your distro. FYI, Fedora also packages the winepulse driver, but they put it in a separate wine-pulseaudio package rather than forcing it on all Wine users. That seems like a better system to me, but I don't know enough about packaging to say if that's possible in Ubuntu.