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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. Quesionable data by wowbagger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Look at the "CPU ID" list - ValveIsGreat?

    True, it is only one entry, but is this a remnant of test data, or has somebody hacked Steam?

    And speaking of "hacking" - has anybody run Steam under Wine? I know I completed both OpFor and BlueShift under Wine. How would that confuse things?

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  2. Games on DVD by Drakino · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, for the top end of the market, games really need to start being DVD only.

    Survey says 77.93% of the machines had a DVD drive. Start putting games out only on DVD, and that will rise quickly.

    I bought my first DVD game in 1998. I'm damn tired of seeing my game wallet have a full page just dedicated to one multi CD game. Lets get the market moved to DVD-Rom before BD-Rom starts in...

  3. If this survey was automated, I wonder about... by MarcoAtWork · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... a few things that struck me:

    - what kind of CPU can currently run above 3.7GHz?

    - unless I completely missed something it does seem that there are very few (if none) nvidia 6800-class (standard, GT or ultra) cards around (my local hw shops have been backordered on these for MONTHS, practically impossible to buy). Also given how many 'older' video cards are around no wonder very few games are willing to push the video HW requirements

    - what processor vendor is named 'ValveIsGreat'? what about the Euro symbol? :)

    - why do 33 people run with an horizontal resolution of 832 pixels ?!?

    - what video card can run in 49bpp? and what about 6bpp (EGA?)?

    - there are two versions of the Korean language?!?!? (Adult and Teen)

    - wow, 288 people have more than 250GB free hd space (!)

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