wine users - Feb 2011 - having trouble start Black Ops on Ubuntu 10.10

Hey all, I am fairly new to Ubuntu and Wine, so please excuse the noob
questions.

I've been having trouble getting Black Ops to run on Wine.  I can start it
up, get to the main menu (for both multiplayer and singleplayer), and even view
the loading screen for a map, but once it is about to start up, I get a message
that says that DirectX has had an unrecoverable error, see the README for
details. I saw a similar issue regarding this error on the application's
page, but it was for MacPorts, and not for Ubuntu.

I can get the game to run fine on my Windows 7 on my computer.  I am using Wine
1.3.12, and the library overrides I have available are gameoverlayrenderer
(disabled), d3d9(builtin) and d3d8(builtin).

System specs are GeForce 310M with 512 MB of memory with a 64-bit interface,
Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit, 4GB of RAM, and my Processor is an Intel Core i5 m450 @2.40
GHZ.

What should I do?  Is there anything else I should download for Wine to get BO
to work?  If so, what, and how do I get it?  Should I make any changes to my
registry?  I can get Source games (Half-Life 2 albeit with some lag) and Team
Fortress 2 (Runs fine, idk how to get anti-aliasing enabled though, its grayed
out) just fine under wine.

you could try the winetricks d3dx9 package. 
probably d3dx10, but I don't know if that itself is implemented in wine more
than small parts.

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