wine users - Sep 2010 - Sound problems in Steam games

This topic seems to pop up every now and then, and I think I've tried all
the solutions that have been given for it. I'm running Linux Mint 9 (64 bit)
with Wine 1.1.42. The problem is that when I start a Steam game, I either get no
sound, or I have sound for a few minutes, then it cuts out. The problem happened
to me under both Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit) and Linux Mint 9 (64 bit). I have tried
disabling Pulse Audio, and a few other "fixes" that i found, but
nothing seems to have worked :(  . This is a clean Wine install, and I
haven't ran any winetricks. Any suggestions?

See if you have more than one box checked in winecfg for sound.  I have the best
success when using just ALSA, other times just OSS.  Does this happen when you
have a browser open?  Do you have desktop or pidgin sounds enabled?  Both the
desktop effects and pidgin sounds can interrupt sound in a game, IIRC.