Just about any mid-high range DX10 card should run it without much trouble. Crytek has said quite a few times that they havn't used DX10 to make the game prettier, but to optimize it, so DX9 and DX10 should look nearly identical, but you'll get a boost by being able to use the optimized DX10 paths which put a lot more load on the graphics card and takes it off of your CPU. We still don't know how much of an increase there will be, but everything about DX10 seems amazingly stream-lined, so we should start seeing high-end graphics hardware actually being put to a lot better use than we've seen in the past.
But I'm quite confident Crytek can pull off making it play well across a variety of cards given how well Far Cry was optimized when it was released while still beating all the other big hitters to the market, they've seem interested in making sure that they're on the bleeding edge of PC gaming features while still keeping it accessible.From the sound of things, the game is finished, but they're still optimizing it to make sure they get the best product out the door, and I applaud them for that, not many PC developers will stillactually stressmaking sure the game is running as efficiently as possible, they just rely on making sure it runs OK on the powerhouse cards on the market, and that's where the the PC gaming decline comes from.
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