It says in this articleCrysis that DirectX 10 is required. As far as I know DirectX 10 only runs on Vista O/S.
So start saving up some $ for Vista.

dx10 is like the switch from 8 to 9 the only difference is dx10 will only be available on vista... u can run crysis on dx9 on xp or vista seeing that without a dx10 card it wont matter whether u have vista or not ull just be missing the bonus of dx10 material which imo probably wont be much regardless of what the bleeding edge early adopters will tell us

To reinforce what Rizno has said. Just look at all the folks who played Far Cry with DX8 cards. The game still plays but you miss some eye candy.


Moving this to off topic since it is not Far Cry related.

Still means I will need a new pc lol. Mine barely runs minimum graphics as it is