Tell me more ×  Possible Duplicate: How can I run Windows
applications in Ubuntu?  Currently I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and I
have tried installing Windows games with Wine, but some games
like NFS require the latest version of DirectX. What should I do
to play games in Ubuntu?  share|improve this question Did you
try installing Windows in a Virtual Machine inside Ubuntu and
running the game there? –  nitstorm Oct 11 '11 at 23:55 add
comment  marked as duplicate by Takkat, hhlp, Stephen Myall,
Thomas W., devav2 Nov 8 '12 at 11:14   1 Answer  unfortunately
wine for linux is far from perfect and there is little to zero
dx10 and dx11 support, even making dx9 games to work usually
requires a fair bit of hacking around, which is why wine is not
suited to run recent windows games (older games work like a
charm though. so you have two choices, either run windows inside
virtual machines like virtual box, which incurs performance
penalties or set up a dual booting machine with windows and
ubuntu. hope this is helpful  sha