I reinstalled clean steam using the msi installer instead of winetricks method. Then I could download and reinstall the game Rage again but it still fails with the xaudio2 error message. I tried following to solve the issue: lieven@cthulhu ~ $ ./winetricks xact_jun2010 Executing w_do_call xact_jun2010 xact_jun2010 already installed, skipping lieven@cthulhu ~ $ ./winetricks vcrun2010 Executing w_do_call vcrun2010 vcrun2010 already installed, skipping There is only 1 .wine prefix on my machine.