Have you guys tried playing with "nice values"??? ie: "sudo renice -10 -n game.exe" or by going to "system monitor" right-clicking on the application, and changing the nice values there. I have read places that people have sped up games, or fixed audio problems this way. have applied various registry Wine tweaks??? and disabled wine's debugging? ie: WINEDBG=-all all of these things could be contributing to the clicks you are hearing. you could also try disabling the pulseaudio daemon. i think the command is "pasuspender" typed on the commandline before executing the game. - if you think it is pulseaudio related. which it could be.. just some thoughts, i don't use wine for games. but i do use wine a lot, and have stumbled into similar problemsm now and again. jordan