Thank you guys for such great responses. Im new to Ubuntu (but definitely here to stay). I have resolved the issue by doing what you guys said; i went to system - appeareances - visual effects. I had it set on normal, which i changed to "none". Now the game runs 100% perfect. If anyone was curious i have the 8600M GT with the 180.51 drivers installed. Im also running 64 Bit Ubuntu. In any case thanks a lot for solving this issue, and hopefully other people can benefit from this post as well.
