wine users - Apr 2009 - Civilization 4 beyond the sword 3.17 does not run properly

Hi

Im trying to get civilization 4 beyond the sword 3.17 running on ubuntu. Im
getting quite far with it. However the ingame menu flickers really badly and the
actual game itself is mostly blacked out making it unplayable.

What have i done?

I updated wine to the latest version, used winetricks to get dx9 and all the
other stuff i saw i needed and tried updating my vid card driver.

so ive pretty much run out of ideas....

i just tried it with play on linux....

same result.

Im getting the idea its due to my x1300 mobility