Steam Hardware Survey

Don't the games automatically start in 1024X768 perhaps they got unlucky and were hit with the survey when not all of the games had had their resolution changed? Or does it take the Windows resolution?
 
My biggest surprise is just 21.43% of surveyed systems run Vista while 24.54% of systems with DX10 capability still remain in XP. This is gaming community (so top end users) two years after introduction of DX10 and Vista! What a flop...
 
v0n said:
My biggest surprise is just 21.43% of surveyed systems run Vista while 24.54% of systems with DX10 capability still remain in XP. This is gaming community (so top end users) two years after introduction of DX10 and Vista! What a flop...
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Unfortunately, people still jump aboard the "vista is arse" bandwagon, when in reality they haven't tried it, nor know that infact it is superb.

I have been on vista (as my only OS) since RC2 (before that I multibooted between XP MCE 2005 and RC1), and since the driver issues were resolved (in the first few months after release), vista has been flawless.
 
paradigm said:
Unfortunately, people still jump aboard the "vista is arse" bandwagon, when in reality they haven't tried it, nor know that infact it is superb.

I have been on vista (as my only OS) since RC2 (before that I multibooted between XP MCE 2005 and RC1), and since the driver issues were resolved (in the first few months after release), vista has been flawless.
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^This - vista is superb for me, never had an issue
 
The results seem odd to us but I think they are to be expected. I mean pretty much all who read OCUK exchange hardware atleast every 12 months. So, we all think people have 8800GT and above cards, all running on 24" screens etc etc.... the simple fact is a lot of css, cs, tf2 players run on old hardware & crappy resolutions, they prob dunno how to change resolution lol.
 
Yeah, would be interesting to see a Blizzard hardware survey :D

A lot of kids play on steam, and probably can't afford to get a half decent computer.
I'm still surprised by the lack of Vista x64 to be honest, I've never had a problem with it. If you can run XP chances are you could probably manage Vista.
 
paradigm said:
What I can't work out is why Vista x86 is more commonplace than Vista x64.
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Probably comes on the pre-builds. Average Joe doesn't know what x86/x64 means. It just has V I S T A. I guess. Pluss it's less hassle for the pre-build companies as they dont have to worry about drivers, or users complaining that they can't install things to x64.
 
Yeah, I was suprised MS even bothered with x64 vista from the start, would have made a lot more sense to make it pure x64, then they would push everyone onto their new platform (no doubt pleasing intel no end), and everyone would have made lots of money. I'd say that almost all 32-bit CPUs would never be good enough to run vista as snappy as i'd like anyway.

I have to agree with a lot of people in here and say that I find vista fantastic compared to XP. I've been using ultimate since beta 1, then RTM Ultimate when it came out, and it's never frozen or hung due to software, only hardware related issues. No bluescreens, and most crashes are easily recoverable, whereas in XP it'd be a reboot. In particular x64 seems a lot more stable and snappy than x86 having dabbled with both.

I can see why your average gamer (not OCUK gamer!) would be on XP though. There's a good chance their system shipped with it in the first place, and with the (undeserving) bad word of mouth on vista, who's going to buy an upgrade?!
 
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