I just bought the game, and poof! dx11 required.
Crytek WTF?!
What about some little patch for dx10?

What now? get a DX 11 card

^^^ this. Next time RTFM for game specs. Sorry for your loss.

What now? get a DX 11 card
Great answer.
I didn't think about it. just give me the money and i'll buy one...

What now? get a DX 11 card
Great answer.
I didn't think about it. just give me the money and i'll buy one...
You should be carefull next time. Indeed, it was a great answer as there is no solution.

What now? get a DX 11 card
Great answer.
I didn't think about it. just give me the money and i'll buy one...


So now you go away.

Seriously, how many years since DX11 came out? DX12 is rumored to release soon. And Crytek games usually push the limits of tech. You should know that by now.

I just bought the game, and poof! dx11 required.
Crytek WTF?!
What about some little patch for dx10?
There was no 'poof'...there was, however 'Hey look, Imma buy this and not read the requirements hurrrrrrr'

Unfortunately, a 'little' patch isn't so little. CryEngine 3 doesn't support D3D10 at all. While D3D11 and 10 have a ton of similarities in programming style, the fact that the engine doesn't support it means you have to do some back-tracking and break things. Given the difference in how D3D9 and D3D11 are structured, going back even further to D3D9 would be an even larger undertaking, though the engine supports it. Odds are, though, if Crytek made the first iteration of CE3 to support D3D9, 10, and 11, then D3D10 support would be in Crysis 3. However, given the ever shrinking market of DX10 hardware that would physically capable of playing the game and the amount of people that will upgrade over the course of the game's life-time, it's simply not an economical endeavor at this stage.

Nvidia has been DX11 since the 400 series, and i'm sure AMD has been since the 5000 series. If you don't have a DX11 card by now, then you're doing PC gaming very, very wrong.

The system requirements have been out for quite a while, and it clearly shows that DX9 and 10 won't be able to run it. CryEngine 3 doesn't support DX10. Crysis 2 was in DX9, and then patched afterwards for 11.

So, What now? Buy a console if you can't keep up.

Buy a DX11 card or try contact origin/EA for a refund in exchange of removing the game from your library if it was a digital copy.

And next time bother in checking the system requeriments.