[Bug 44956] New: Skyrim: (regression) NPC dialogue does not play any audio

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44956

            Bug ID: 44956
           Summary: Skyrim: (regression) NPC dialogue does not play any
                    audio
           Product: Wine
           Version: 3.5
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: andrew.mrolko at gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 61063
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=61063
wine steam.exe &>log.txt

In The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, NPC dialogue audio does not play when NPCs are
talking. The NPCs do not remain static, they interact with the player and their
mouths move, there is just no audio. I enabled subtitles when an NPC was
talking to me, and I did see them for a brief period of time.

For those familiar with the game, the opening sequence goes like this:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/615805-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/faqs/69918

When I enabled subtitles, I could see that the text was appearing way way way
faster than it normally would in game. For instance, when Ralof would normally
be doing his opening lines of:

Ralof: "Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border,
       right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that
       thief over there."

I saw the subtitles corresponding to:
Ralof: Hey, what village are you from, horse thief?
Lokir: Why do you care?
Ralof: A Nord's last thoughts should be of home.
Lokir: Rorikstead. I'm...I'm from Rorikstead.

This is a regression as of Wine 3.5, as this functionality worked like a charm
in previous releases of Wine. I suspect that this is related to Bug #38668
since the merge of Wine-Staging and Wine-Dev, but I don't want to speculate. I
should note that Skyrim (the vanilla title) hasn't exhibited this issue in my
experience. 

Attached is the log file from running the following command in a brand new,
fresh installation of Solus:
drew at drew-desktop ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam $ wine steam.exe
&>log.txt
drew at drew-desktop ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam $ wine --version 
wine-3.5

Hardware: AMD R9 280X
Driver: Open Source

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