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Steam Hardware Survey Results

Posted by Zonk on from the showing-off-your-rig dept.

richie2000 writes "Valve asked Steam users for their hardware specs and more than half a million responded. Check out the survey results. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit is that OpenGL beats Direct3D by a healthy margin."

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  1. OpenGL beats DirectX for HalfLife 1 by Marc_Hawke · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, I noticed the disrepancy, but then remembered that the only game that's available on Steam in HalfLife1 right now. When that was written weren't we on DirectX 3? (I'd have to check the box at home.)

    And, even more 'condemning' of this stat is that HL was based on Quake1(and a bit of 2) code, which was OpenGL ONLY, it didn't have a DirectX option.

    Anyway...it's one for the stat books, but I really don't think it means anything, given the context.

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    --Welcome to the Realm of the Hawke--
  2. Re:bad phrasing by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Informative

    I took that survey; they don't ask the user, they ask the machine and get an exact count of memory, which they summarize here. As you point out, they summarize it badly, but the original data doesn't have that weakness.

    Chris Mattern

  3. nitpick.... by Chilles · · Score: 4, Informative

    Writeup:
    ...more than half a million responded.
    Article:
    ...Unique Samples: 293423...
    So that would be: "...more than a quarter of a million."