sgtmattbaker wrote: > Why isn't there just one way to make the sound work and get that to work instead of having to fix 2 or 3 different sound subsystems? That's the way FOSS works - the more options the better. sgtmattbaker wrote: > Do you think any of this has to do with my setup: when I click on the audio tab in wine it takes probably 15 seconds to load. None of the other tabs do that. If you have all those drivers installed - then yeah it might, if something isn't working. That tab tries to initialize all sound drivers, something that Wine itself doesn't.