ahh, sorry, forgot system specifics. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04, 32 bit. uname -a : Linux nazgul 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux I'm using the wine PPA, so the version is at 1.1.28. I've tried running from inside the directory (i've tried installing it inside and outside of the .wine directory). I hadn't tried disabling pulseaudio, I had tried padsp wine ./Tribes.exe though. I just pkilled pulseaudio and there was no difference (same error spam). The sound DID work fine during the installation.