Steam Hardware Survey Results

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Steam Hardware Survey Results

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @06:42AM 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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bad phrasing by Jahf · 2004-09-22 06:53 · 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 · 2004-09-22 07:00 · 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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AMD by mabu · 2004-09-22 07:00 · 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.
Re:OpenGL beats DirectX for HalfLife 1 by Black+Hitler · 2004-09-22 07:06 · 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.