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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Re:MS should reconsider DX10 for XP by kc2keo · 2007-11-14 08:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'm hoping for more game publishers to use open source projects for development. Its kind of a pain to boot to WinXP from Linux. Yes I know there is Wine and Cedega but its not always the solution...