I want to buy a graphics card that will last me for a long time, I don't want to purchase something worth 400 bucks just for me to find out half a year later that it can't support games because of the stupid dx 10.1. If it is true that dx10 hardware will not support dx10.1 games, if it does come out, then I'd rather wait for a dx10.1 nvidia video card. I'll still be able to play all the current games later on anyway, just that I'd prefer to play it now.

The thing is I don't know a lot about this new dx10.1 and how it will affect the future compatabilty of dx10 video cards. Will I still be able to play the 10.1 games? Will game developers actually make dx10.1 games? How important really is this dx 10.1? Do I even need to worry about it?

Radeon is making all their video cards dx10.1 compatible, which makes people like me get confused about whether I should get worked up about it at all. Just want you guys opinion.