Here is how to install and configure wine 1.3.1 from source with additional configurations for nVidia card owners... ;)

download the source here.
open up the tarball:
tar -jvxf wine-1.3.1.tar.bz2
cd into the newly created directory:
cd wine-1.3.0
configure and make dependencies:
./configure --with-x && make depend && make
install wine you may need to sudo this one
make install
create the .wine directory in your home folder:
winecfg
install winetricks for additional .dll’s:
cd .wine/
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
make winetricks executable:
sudo chmod +x ./winetricks
install additional .dll’s using winetricks:
./winetricks d3dx9 droid winxp sound=alsa volnum vcrun2008 dotnet20 ie6 corefonts
recommended for nvidia card users: for the physx gaming engine – make sure your card is supported
./winetricks physx
now, after you have done all this, there is still more to do in order to properly configure wine:
configure the wine registry for windows gaming:
wine regedit
browse to HK_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/ and add a new key named Direct3D. then add the following strings and values:
string value
DirectDrawRenderer opengl
Nonpower2Mode repack
OffscreenRenderingMode fbo
RenderTargetLockMode auto
UseGLSL readtex
VertexShaderMode hardware
VideoDescription NVIDIA GeForce GT 220
VideoDriver nv4_disp.dll
VideoMemorySize 1024
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you can add it manually as shown above, or, copy and paste the following to a graphics.reg file and import it to wines registry.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareWineDirect3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"Nonpower2Mode"="repack"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"RenderTargetLockMode"="auto"
"UseGLSL"="readtex"
"VertexShaderMode"="hardware"
"VideoDescription"="NVIDIA GeForce GT 220"
"VideoDriver"="nv4_disp.dll"
"VideoMemorySize"="1024"

enable support for misc binaries:
edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncomment the following line:
/sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc
then add the following to /etc/fstab:
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc defaults 0 0
now add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local”:
echo ':windows:M::MZ::/path/to/wine:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
echo ':windowsPE:M::PE::/path/to/wine:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
now reboot the machine