wine users - Feb 2010 - Battlefront 2 extremely long level loading times

Hello people. I have a bit of a problem with Star Wars Battlefront 2. Finally
got it to mostly behave, but the problem I am having is that when I attempt to
load a level, it hangs on the loading screen for something like five minutes
before loading. I'd like some ideas on how to get it to load a little
quicker. Any ideas as to what tests I could run, registry hacks I could do, etc?

Any help appreciated, thanks.

This is with OffscreenRenderingMode set to backbuffer and pixel shaders
disabled. Here is the output from the terminal when I run BattlefrontII.exe.

fixme:dinput:SysMouseAImpl_Acquire Clipping cursor to (320,150)-(1120,750)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x23ff138,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d_surface:IWineD3DVolumeImpl_LockBox (0xb45b498) : pBox=(nil) stub
ALSA lib ../../../src/pcm/pcm.c:7234:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occured
fixme:d3d_surface:IWineD3DVolumeImpl_LockBox (0xb0d24e8) : pBox=(nil) stub

I'd ignore the alsa lib underrun error, it doesn't seem to impact the
game, unless I'm missing something.

This forum really needs an edit function. I forgot to add, running wine 1.1.37,
Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, and an NVIDIA 260 gtx with 195.30 drivers from the nvidia
site.

Bump....Anyone out there?