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Minimum Specs Information for your games
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:45 pm
by Kale
This data has been compiled by Valve using over 700,000 unique gamer's PCs. It could be useful for you when you develop a game. It shows what system specs average gamers use.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:08 pm
by thefool
hehe :p
there are 31 out of 700 000 that has 4 cpu's!
Now i want 8, just to be 1/700 000!
Interesting though. Thanks for the link!
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:57 pm
by Num3
You have to remember these are not very real stats, because VALVE gathers this from HL2 gamers...
So these results do not surprise me much.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:11 pm
by Bonne_den_kule
I thought that gamers had much better computers. Can HL2 run on a Geforce FX5200??
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:15 pm
by Kale
Num3 wrote:You have to remember these are not very real stats, because VALVE gathers this from HL2 gamers...
So these results do not surprise me much.
Please explain what you mean by these not being
real stats?
These stats are collected from people who play all of the games available on Steam, not just HL2.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:07 pm
by Num3
Bonne_den_kule wrote:I thought that gamers had much better computers. Can HL2 run on a Geforce FX5200??
HL2 can run on any graphics board, the engine adapts to it!!!
Kale wrote:Please explain what you mean by these not being real stats?
Simply because you're not analysing a random market, but a very specific market of 3d gamers ....
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:25 pm
by Kale
Num3 wrote:Simply because you're not analysing a random market, but a very specific market of 3d gamers ....
I don't think this market is that specific, after all this is a cross section of gamers playing all of Steam delivered games not just HL2. I think that this is a good cross section of gamers in general, from all walks of life and with quite diverse computer specs. These stats show quite clearly (IMO) the average gaming system and as Bonne_den_kule pointed out, it is not as advanced as you might expect.
Show me a better guide.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:27 pm
by PB
> this is a cross section of gamers playing all of Steam delivered games
Yes, but that's not to be considered a true scientific study for general gaming.
Even the web page title is called "Valve Survey Summary", not "General Gaming
Study".
> Show me a better guide
Well, no guide is better than a skewed guide.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:43 pm
by blueznl
dunno but it looks to me like the info is pretty much a slice of the world, hl2 is quite a generic program, it's not cutting edge anymore these days, steam / source runs on most modern hardware, total numbers are high enough to be representative
the one group you are missing are casual gamers on lower hardware spec machines, dunno where to get that info
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:06 pm
by Kale
blueznl wrote:hl2 is quite a generic program, it's not cutting edge anymore these days, steam / source runs on most modern hardware, total numbers are high enough to be representative
Exactly!
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:43 pm
by Trond
I want one of those AMD128Azzith. Or I mean, I want that AMD128Azzith.