vitamin wrote: > > Have you followed the HOWTO for installing Steam? Did you killed pulseaudio before starting Wine? Have you disabled "in-game steam community"? Yes, Steam works as well as it does under Wine. Yes, I kill the pulseaudio process everytime I restart the X server. Yes, In-Game Community Overlay is disabled. I've been to the AppDB many times. I'm well aware of the issues. While I've got it working in a window, the low sound quality is still around. It sounds normal when I start the game, even the clicking sounds when the mouse moves over the menu items. The sound quality decreases every time I join a server or create my own. If I go to the options and change the sound from "2 Speakers" to "Headphones" it remains at high quality until either a map change or I join/create a new server.