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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. bad phrasing by Jahf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The survey has bad phrasing.

    If I have 1GB of RAM, do I select "512MB to 1GB" or do I select "1GB to 1.5GB"?

    A shame, because it looked like a decent number of respondents and it would be valuable for game makers to use to gauge what platforms they should target.

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    1. Re:bad phrasing by joeljkp · · Score: 4, Insightful

      These stats make me think that the numbers are automatically detected by Steam, not input by users.

      So to fix the bad phrasing, all they need to do is correct the typo or resort the raw data or whatever. The data itself isn't effected by it.

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  2. AMD by mabu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's even more interesting is that the CPUs are split almost 50-50 between Intel and AMD.

    Unfortunately, the major computer vendors are not offering many choices in the way of AMD processors.

    It seems to me that the mainstream PC vendors better jump on the AMD bandwagon or else more and more users are going to be building their own, cheaper and faster.

  3. Re:Mostly average by Masami+Eiri · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was sort of surprised to see so many Radeon 9800s myself... of course, I was more suprised at the number of GeForce4 MXs (-_-;) Seriously though, I hope most of these people play stuff other than HL and its mods... I was getting 90 fps using a Voodoo2 for HL..

  4. Re:OpenGL beats DirectX for HalfLife 1 by Black+Hitler · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Uh, HL does have a DirectX renderer.


    True, but it's crap and everyone knows it. It's not in the least bit surprising that OpenGL outnumbers Direct3D by such a wide margin. I imagine that most of the Direct3D users are running CS Source.

    where are the 3dfx cards?


    Um, in dumpsters all across the nation? 3Dfx has been dead for awhile now.
  5. Does Gordon Freeman own a 286? by spyrochaete · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So these results are based on Half Life? This game is ancient, and 10% of people (more than 25000) play the game at resolutions LOWER than 640x480? This is the least credible survey I've ever seen, and it's more ridiculous if it's true that this data is collected automatically.

    You gotta feel sorry for those 11 people with 10GB HDD's... And that one guy speaking an unknown language! I bet he's pretty lonely!