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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 vs. DirectX? by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How are they measuring this?

    My guess is that they would be reading ALL the games on EVERYONE's computer, and determining if it uses an OpenGL renderer, a DirectX renderer, 'software', or 'other'. Then how do they determine which renderer each piece of software uses? Do they have a massive database of every game ever written? What about games that offer both DX and OGL?

    Most everything else is straight-forward, but I don't get HOW they measured this category. (Or WHAT they are really measuring.)

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
    The purpose of that site was not known.