[Wine] Battlefeild 2- new issue?

[medievalman86]

ubuntu 8.1
Nvidia 9600GT.

Installed BF2 with no problems.

Go to run it- first screen comes up, screen blinks, reverts to desktop, changing resolution from 1440x900 to 800x600. so basically it wont even start
 Ive already tried everything i found in previous forums and appdb (i think ive tried it all) 

Ive changed the video.con file to read 1024x768 at 60 in the appropiate file. Ive tried running it in virtual desktop, same results.

results of this code xrandr 
Code:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1440 x 900, maximum 1440 x 900
default connected 1440x900+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1440x900       50.0*    51.0  
   1360x768       52.0     53.0  
   1152x864       54.0     55.0     56.0     57.0  
   1024x768       58.0     59.0     60.0  
   960x600        61.0  
   960x540        62.0  
   840x525        63.0     64.0     65.0  
   832x624        66.0  
   800x600        67.0     68.0     69.0     70.0     71.0     72.0  
   800x512        73.0  
   720x450        74.0  
   700x525        75.0     76.0     77.0  
   680x384        78.0     79.0  
   640x512        80.0     81.0  
   640x480        82.0     83.0     84.0     85.0  
   576x432        86.0     87.0     88.0     89.0  
   512x384        90.0     91.0     92.0  
   416x312        93.0  
   400x300        94.0     95.0     96.0     97.0  
   320x240        98.0     99.0    100.0  




any ideas? this is a fresh ubuntu. fresh wine install. Im not dual booting, so i installed BF2 in linux through wine.