The latest release from Wine contains the WinePulse patches and it does seem to fix most sound issues I had with games.
I had no sound in-game for Alien Vs Predator (2010) and the game crashed after a few minutes playing (always at the same spot). Now the game runs fine: no crashes and full sound!
Same thing with Skyrim, I could only have sound with the Ubuntu Wine PPA’s version, with the latest version, I can finally use my own builds.
A Wine 1.7.55 binary is available here: https://lutris.net/files/runners/wine-1 … 686.tar.gz
The wine-staging build for this version should be available in a few days.