Survey Results

**Lemur** · 08-21-2007, 04:11

I must confess, I pre-downloaded Bioshock on Steam. I hadn't made a pre-order at the local GameStop, and I just couldn't stomach dealing with them tomorrow. So yeah, I used Steam.

Anyway, the interesting bit is that they conducted a survey of my gear, mostly using auto-detect, and the results can be seen here.

Very interesting stuff. Seems like most gamers are using about a gig of RAM, and the uptake on SLI is low, low, low.

Give it a browse, see what you think. The majority of gamers seem to be milking their hardware much longer than the gaming press would make you think.

**Xiahou** · 08-21-2007, 04:27

I think it was interesting that Vista still came in at less than 8% too. Hopefully, this will send a signal to any game developers who are thinking of going DX10 exclusive.

I'm also pleased that my "budget" PC is literally still ahead of the curve in almost all categories. Not surprised by low SLI adoption. IMO, it's really difficult to justify the cost of two cards against the actual performance gains it gets you.

But Steam, Lemur?

**Lemur** · 08-21-2007, 06:36

Go ahead, kick me while I'm down.

**Husar** · 08-21-2007, 10:28

I actually found it surprising that Vista is owned by more than 5% of players.

And some people seem to have very, very outdated systems while i was also surprised to see 8800 cards way up there in the graphicscard numbers, these things are expensive and like to eat energy.

Yes, they're also fast, but you pay for that in energy costs on top of the high sale price.

Anyway, we can also see that Germany and France are full of gamers and the high dutchness on the Org isn't justifiable by the amount of overall dutch gamers.

The only thing I don't get is how they got so many 16" displays, how they found out the inches of displays anyway and why they only have weird resolutions in the appropriate list. I guess 1280*1024 is listed under 1280*800 which is a widescreen resolution IIRC.