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Valve Releases Hardware Survey Results
Chris_Yates writes "A hardware survey containing over one million entries has been made public by Valve, the creators of Half-Life 2. Some interesting facts include: 65.89% now have SP2 compared to 17.04% for SP1, AMD and Intel almost split 50/50 with nVidia edging out ATI 50.72% to 41.03%. The Radeon 9800 and 9600 take the top two spots with 20% combined."
They made the same mistakes in presentation of this survey that everyone else seems to make. I have 1 gig of RAM. So, do I fit in the category of 512mb-1gig, or do I fit in the category of 1 gig to 1.5 gig? That's just a stupid mistake. Even if they collected the data properly, they aren't reporting it properly. Stupid, useless survey. OK, I see the first line that implies that the ranges are set up like this: [low-high). Is it so hard to carry that through the entire chart?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
80% of the respondants(sp) in the survey have pipes that handle at least 256.0 Kbps.
Over 56% have 768.0 Kbps.
The largest responding group has 1,024.0 Kbps.
It's certainly a broadband world in Valveville.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
XP SP 2 (Build 2600) 666,890 65.89 %
I just want to salute whoever the joker is that convinced the survey app that he had an "INTERWEBntel" processor.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I did agree to be profiled. It was very clearly optional.
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Erm, everyone who participated agreed to be profiled......
When you logged into Steam a window popped up asking if you wanted to be part of the survey.
Paranoia's bad, Mmmkay?
I have no sig yet I must scream.
Language:
Korean (Adult) 22,241 2.19 %
Korean (Teen) 3,140 0.31 %
Never knew Korean language was actually specified as different for Adults and teenagers!
Bet english and a lot of other languages _could_ do the same.
Perhaps this speaks more to the demographic that Valve is serving, but I still find this statistic to be very important.
>> "What would the robut do? Frame someone!"
Look at the firstline of the category:
>=24 Mb to 32 Mb
I assume this is followed throughout displayed results. Still, it's a little a bit confusing at first, I admit.
So if you've got 512MB, you're in the "512 Mb to 1 Gb" category, not the previous one.
By the way, isn't 'b' bit and 'B' byte? If so, they should've presumably used MB, GB etc. instead of Mb, Gb etc.
Didn't they have a similar survey last time?
Wait, I found it.
http://valve.speakeasy.net/
I participated in this survey, and one thing that strikes me as interesting is that there are a lot of people who are still holding onto the ATI 9XX0 series of hardware.
One question I have is... considering that console game developers push the absolute limits of the console platform, why don't PC game developers do the same with a baseline PC hardware config? Anything extra processing juice will be just gravy then.
Is it funny that as PC owners, we are forced to upgrade our equipment every year or two to get the experience with the games we want, where consoles don't have that at all except get the games?
Maybe this is why consoles are so popular. PC gaming hardware gets way to expensive year after year.
It's a conspiracy... I know it! Get the developers to make games for advanced hardware instead of pushing their engines and baseline hardware to the max with better code.
I love gaming, on any platform. But I know I'll get flamed for this... so... flame away!
What I find interesting is that most players have DVD drives (85%), yet game companies consistently release majority in CD format..