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Steam Update Shows FPS Gamer Stats

Posted by simoniker on from the watch-the-battle-develop dept.

majestik writes "Valve Software today sent out a Half-Life 2 hardware survey via their Steam content delivery app to over 270,000 gamers (and counting!), collecting various hardware and software information about their PC systems to see how they'll measure up to the forthcoming FPS. Lotsa interesting data to check out, if you ever wanted to know what kind of systems today's FPS gamers use. And yes, if you're wondering, right now Intel takes 50.02% of the CPU market, leaving AMD with 49.98%." The stats are updated in real-time, and it seems this update has again stressed the Steam servers, with a message noting "the Steam network has been overloaded, causing many Steam users to be unable to login", though the effect is reportedly diminishing.

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  1. AMD vs Intel by Ethon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow...I didnt figure that the margin between Intel/AMD was so close...I always have just assumed that as far as gaming went, AMD had a significant lead. Learn something new every day I suppose :)

  2. This violates my 2nd amendment rights! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A survey? This is none of their business! Pretty soon, they'll register us, and then they will take away our weapons.

    They can have my unlimited gaussgun and Mp5 grenade launcher when they pry the joystick from my cold dead fingers.

  3. Heh, interesting by jayhawk88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One hard-core Cyrix user out there.

    Also, some fool is trying to run half life at 96 pixels?

    And finally, nice to see all those Microsoft employees beta-testing XP SP2 are hard at work...

  4. Hold on a sec by Proud+like+a+god · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something's odd. In Other Settings (at the bottom of the article!) there's this: RDTSC 283,171 100.02 %

  5. Er... by Anonymous+Cow+herd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Other Settings
    RDTSC 283,171 100.02%

    I wonder how they got that :-)

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  6. Re:AMD the winner by Farmer+Jimbo · · Score: 4, Informative

    The survey comes up after the successful Steam software update. Network speed is self-reported, all the rest is automatically pulled from your system. Participation in the survey is volountary.

  7. Re:Opt-out or opt-in? by ctr2sprt · · Score: 4, Funny
    Did you read your own comment? "Is A true? I'm sure A is false. But I'm not sure. This in no way affects me."

    For what it's worth, participation is voluntary. So you were right to ask, wrong to be sure, right to be doubtful, and ultimately a waste of my time.