Valve December 2009 Hardware Survey [Jan 08, 2010, 12:13 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Steam Hardware Survey now offers its December, 2009 results, showing hardware trends collected from the users of Valve's online service. Some of the results follow.
Data Most Popular Percentage Windows Version Windows XP 32 bit 44.77% System RAM 2 GB 30.94% Processor Vendor GenuineIntel 69.06% Intel CPU Speeds 2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz 26.86% AMD CPU Speeds 2.0 Ghz to 2.29 Ghz 9.62% Physical CPUs 2 cpus 56.93% DirectX 10 Systems (Vista with DirectX 10 GPU) ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series 6.78% DirectX 10 GPUs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 13.64% DirectX 9 Shader Model 2b and 3.0 GPUs NVIDIA GeForce 7600 12.83% DirectX 9 Shader Model 2.0 GPUs ATI Radeon 9600 16.79% MSAA Support Level 4x 93.91% NVIDIA Drivers 8.16.11.9107 (9/27/2009) 19.19% ATI Drivers 8.14.10.700 (9/23/2009) 10.18% Video Card Driver Name nvd3dum.dll 35.52% Video Card Description NVIDIA GeForce 8800 10.39% Multi-GPU Systems NVIDIA SLI (2 GPUs) 2.40% VRAM 512 MB 40.01% Primary Display Resolution 1280 x 1024 21.20% Multi-Monitor Desktop Resolution 2960 x 1050 12.95% Audio Devices Realtek HD Audio output 40.70% Microphones Yes 77.82% Language English 56.76% Drive Type DVD 97.98% Free Hard Drive Space 10 GB to 99 GB 36.78% Total Hard Drive Space 250 GB to 499 GB 32.02% Network Speed 2,048.0 Kbps 34.61%
All systems I setup now are x64 win7.
Personally I am running 8gig of ram, but that's for dealing with playing with my dev tools and modeling work. I have to say it would be a giggle to try multibox WoW now that I have quad core and all that ram and a new video card (GTX275).
Before I was running a 7900 and a dual core with 2gig of ram, the difference can be felt now as I can run pretty much anything in the highest of settings.
Just seeing the stats is awesome from a development point of view, knowing what customers have capability wise and being able to target who you want. I'd like to see those with DX10 cards and win XP moving to Windows 7 and we might finally be moving to DX10 min requirement (DX11 is very nice, but at least getting to DX10 would be a start).
Then again DX9 is doing it's job nicely considering it's age, it would be nice to skip DX10 support and go straight to D11, which looks likely in the next year or so.
Personally I am running 8gig of ram, but that's for dealing with playing with my dev tools and modeling work. I have to say it would be a giggle to try multibox WoW now that I have quad core and all that ram and a new video card (GTX275).
Before I was running a 7900 and a dual core with 2gig of ram, the difference can be felt now as I can run pretty much anything in the highest of settings.
Just seeing the stats is awesome from a development point of view, knowing what customers have capability wise and being able to target who you want. I'd like to see those with DX10 cards and win XP moving to Windows 7 and we might finally be moving to DX10 min requirement (DX11 is very nice, but at least getting to DX10 would be a start).
Then again DX9 is doing it's job nicely considering it's age, it would be nice to skip DX10 support and go straight to D11, which looks likely in the next year or so.
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