Hi, when it come to steam sound I've also been through allot. After many experiments, I figured that the best thing to do was to, firstly do everything in this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578) topic, getting pulseaudio to work. After that I constantly tried to use the padsp tehcnique. that is, select OSS and then do padsp steam to run it, but it constantly crashed my whole ubuntu system. So I end up by thinking that I could route the sound first through ALSA and then through Pulseaudio, so I used aoss (I think I had to find some package). So, if you'd like to do this this way here's what to do. First, go to: ]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578 and do everything except for equalizer (unless you wish it) Then, go to the console (terminal and type): Code: aoss winecfg select audio tab and choose aoss Now, whenever you wish to launch steam (or any wine app) just do: Code: cd path_to_application aoss wine application I usually create bash script that also handle extra stuff that some apps need. BE AWARE THAT PULSEAUDIO IS NOT RECOMMENDED BY WINE DEVS. I am only posting this to help you. Why doesn't sound work you may ask? Well, as you can only have sound from one app at a time, steam captures the sound, so that when starting a game it will not have sound, because it's already taken. Note: If you try ALSA in winecfg and it works, it has happened to me but sound doesn't work in other apps. (untested in most recent versions) Good Luck, Jorl17
