I tried MechWarrior 3 with wine on Ubuntu 7.04. It installed just fine, but when I attempted to play it, the cursor on the main menu was extremly slow. After I managed to set up a player the game crashed after it was done loading the first mission. Is there anyway around these problems?

PC Specs:
Gateway PC
ATI Rage Video Card
450 Megahertz Intel Pentium 3 Processor
224 MB of ram

P.S. I played it at a pretty decent speed on a slower computer before with Windows 98 SE.

P.S. 2 Dual booting is not an option for me because I don't have a working copy of Windows XP and Windows 98 SE won't work right on my hardware.