Steam Survey Takes PC Gaming's Pulse

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @07:59AM from the what's-under-the-hood dept.

Via Rock Paper Shotgun and Primotech, the latest in Valve's ongoing PC hardware survey via the Steam service. Some very interesting stuff in there, though probably nothing too surprising. From RPS's analysis: "Vista has shown a small increase in representation, but clearly nowhere near where Microsoft would have desperately hoped. Previously 7.99% of gamers were using the latest operating system. Now it's 16.91%, with a vast 81.13% sticking with XP. Rather confirming Valve's position on DX10, and what a massive waste of time it is developing for Vista only."

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Lay off the crack. by Anonymous Coward · 2007-11-14 08:40 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Only shitty low-end LCDs run 1280x1024. And only an idiot would consider that acceptable. There's a reason everything moved to wide screen aspect ratios, it fits our natural field of vision better. What kind of moron is going to intentionally get a narrow screen aspect ratio monitor? They are only acceptable if you have two of them, and don't play games.