wine users - Oct 2010 - [Issues] Sound Locking up a program after a couple seconds.

I'd like to play games on wine. This would make it so I can completely trash
Windows as a whole, and the only thing keeping me from making Linux my main
machine.

The problem is this. The game starts fine and it is really -flawless- gaming.
The sound flips into a loop and the program locks up. (this happens at the same
point in ever game... It's not a time issue. In EVE it's when you are
loading after selecting a character. FF14 it's on the launching program. I
have to force quit out of the program, not out of wine. Only the program has
locked up.

If I can turn the sound off in the program quickly enough (which I can do with
EVE Online only) I can play the game, but without sound, as long as I wish.

I currently run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and the latest development version (1.3.x) of
wine (upgraded after hearing it helped - it did not). Both without any
"custom" changes. My sound card is on my motherboard and I have no
problems in Ubuntu.

I've tried runing just ALSA, Just OSS and I've tried running both at
once. I've tried changing it to Emulation & Full hardware acceleration
for all those settings. I've also tried fiddling with Sample rate and Bits
per sample, however I haven't tried those in all possible options.

If there's any extra information you need please let me know. Any tips to
resolve this problem would be great.

This has come up each and every time I've tried using Linux. It's been
really frustrating me over YEARS.  [Shocked]

Is there a nice easy fix for this? All the "audio problems" I read
though online aren't the problem i'm having, or so it seems....

P.S. http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=1457

The post that suggests killing pulse audio. Did not work.

> The post that suggests killing pulse audio. Did not work.
>
I would completely uninstall it. I did that the last time I used a
distro that had installed pulse by default.

John