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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 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