How to change the default audio in Wine to Alsa only

I am aware that wine has just undergone a complete rewrite of the audio system and maybe winetricks could still help with your question...

In a terminal run

winetricks

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In your terminal type winetricks sound=alsa.

This does the same effect as in @fossfreedom-s solution. Note: if you want to disable all audio in wine, use winetricks sound=disabled.


  1. Open a terminal and run regedit.
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Drivers
  3. Set Audio to alsa

To restore Ubuntu's default value, repeat the first 2 steps and then set Audio to pulse.