Crytek is planning to release their DX11 update soon, which will include tessellation, POM, improved depth of field, improved lighting and better particles and effects. In addition it appears that there will also be a high res texture pack. A DX11 compatible graphics card (GTX 400 series/HD 5000 series and up) will be required for the DX11 update. A 64-bit OS and a graphics card with at least 1GB of VRAM will be required for the high res texture pack. 
 
The page is here, with download links, but it appears the download links are inactive at the moment. There are currently some preview slides to look at. 

I'm glad they're giving you some graphics love 
 
I was so disgusted and off-put by this piece of shit game that i won't even bother trying to run it on my future GTX 580

Thanks for sharing this with us. I have just completed a full fresh install of Windows and along with it I added Crysis 2, and it runs properly now with no flashing or random black blobs appearing all over the screen, good frame rates too, so this will be a welcome addition to the game.

Good thing they waited until most people have finished the game and are totally done with it.

Looks awesome. That said the normal version runs so damn perfectly and looks so amazing that I'm kind of worried about what this will run like.

Wow that tessellation looks great. I wasn't expecting it to have that much of an effect. I wonder if those tessellation example screens only show tessellation or also include POM.

Those features should already be in the game - Oh right, consoles. Doesn't look too impressive, to be honest. They should have built it with DX11 in mind, but where's the fun in that? Stabbing people who made them what they are and then releasing a small patch that will add things that shouldn't be missing in the first place is such a better alternative.

Cool, curious what kind of a difference the high res texture pack will bring hopefully making it worth the wait. Right now I'm glad I stuck with the PC version.

So now how about a patch where they give us the real continuation to Crysis?

cool glad I haven't bought this game yet...  Maybe I will now :)

i will have my new PC build very soon and i can't wait to try this. that tessellation look amazing. hope the i5 2500k and GTX570 im getting can run it ok.

@valrog: I agree too damn much with that. Sigh. Still, it was a pretty good game.

I'm afraid this feature is a little too late to the party. They could have capitalized on the (admittedly) nice graphic boost of DX11 during the launch of the game, but now... I don't think many people still play Crysis 2, either SP or MP, and fewer will buy the game now solely based on DX11. The DX9 version looks great already and runs smoothly as silk in modest computers. Even with this upgrade, it won't be the beast that refused to run on anything short of a NASA computer the first one was, so no point on benchmarking with it.

Don't get me wrong. I really liked Crysis 2 (a lot more than Crysis, in fact). It looks amazing on PC and the DX11 features make it even better... but eye candy is just eye candy, and I feel that at this point it won't matter much for the value of the game itself.

Does the DX11 patch come with a good game.............

Looks better, but not enough for me to play Crysis 2 again. Don't get me wrong, I liked Crysis 2 - but this isn't enough of a graphical upgrade to make it a "new" experience. Textures pop a bit more, there are a few more reflections and the lighting is nicer, but to be honest, you don't really notice those features unless you deliberately look for them. I can attest that when I played Crysis 2, I spent less time looking at the scenery and more time cowering in a corner shouting "recharge, recharge, goddamn you, recharge!!!!!" or shooting dudes in the face with guns.

or shooting dudes in the face with guns.

Is this going to fix the whole problem with the game you know... not being good?

@jetsetwillie: your rig will be more than fine. it's futureproof for BF3 as well.

@jetsetwillie: your rig will be more than fine. it's futureproof for BF3 as well.

@benpicko: While your CPU is a bottleneck, The 560 Ti seems like a sweet spot. If you try for a higher GPU, the benefits would start diminishing since your CPU is not powerful enough to drive those higher end GPUs. In the long run, however, you might need to upgrade both, and perhaps a new motherboard as well, especially if you want to play future games in full HD glory with all settings on high.

1.9, High Res Textures, DX11: http://www.geforce.com/#/News/articles/download-the-crysis-2-directx-11-ultra-upgrade
It's on.

Links in OP are up. I think.

Yep.

Too late

Links in OP are up. I think.

Yep.

@defaulttag: A good informative video, even if I was aware of bottlenecking it is always good to learn more.

@Raineko said:

@AlexW00d said:

Links in OP are up. I think.

Yep.

nope, only links to mycrysis

Nope all 4. I am currently downloading the 2 DX11 extras via Fileplanet.

@Korolev said:

or shooting dudes in the face with guns.

Oh, with guns! Glad you clarified that point. ^_*

I did a brief little comparison video showing off the differences these patches make.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprVxsGz5kg

I had an issue after installing this patch. The 1.9 update worked fine and I had the DX11 menus, great frame rates at around 55 to 65 too.
 
Then I installed the optional DX11 support and High Res drivers and found that the game wouldn't start (running through Origin). All I was getting was a black screen and then going into task manager I could see that the program had stopped working.
 
If you get this open up you 'My Computer' fold and browse through to the Crysis 2.exe file then try running that to start the game, in my case it fixed the issue and the game started playing, though with the high res texture packs I was getting half the frame rates at around 25 to 35.