thank you for the reply Dardack, It seems logic and odd together. Although my knowledge of linux isn't that great I do understand that there is an issue going on with the alsa-plugin for pulse which is somehow not loaded correctly when a different application (which uses the sound system) is already actived. I use the pulseudio version 0.9.23 in openSUSE. And till this issue is fixed (or noticed by the devs) I will use the workaround by starting the wine app first then whatever i need. Regards,