Valve Releases Latest Steam PC Hardware Survey; Nvidia Cards and 4:3 Displays Lead

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  I play Half-Life on a projector in 3D with shutter glasses... 1024 is HD gaming on an 8 foot screen man... : spyrext
  • HD gaming is at least 1280 x 720 res = 720p, like in the xbox360 so 1024 res... it's not HD gaming :) ... : T.I.E.
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  Yeah, they're pathetic idiots cause they have a resolution of 1024x768. wtf : armybob
  • pretty much : FLESHPOUNDER

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  Also I'd to add - these surveys need more depth for games. Such as - "50% of COD4 customers are running... : avatar_58
  • Just because they don't release a report like that to the public... doesn't mean they don't have that inf... : Gwyndion
• how is this a problem? so what if it includes people with crappy machines who don't play HL or COD? : yAak
• Half-Life 2 actually has very low system requirements and runs surprisingly smoothly on them (once everyt... : House
• SUBJECTIVITY WARNING!!1 Having Sam & Max is a problem? Having one of the best PC games in the last decad... : FLESHPOUNDER

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• they are probably pirated though. : Klebold
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  People who use Steam != All PC gamers. Valve/Steam caters to the slightly more hardcore crowd, and the... : carbontree
  • I think this is probably true. A lot of people might play casual games on Steam... but most people who u... : Gwyndion
  • all i play on steam is peggle. your response? :P : FLESHPOUNDER
• Yeah, a two year-old gg graphics making for less than 10% of the user base. Shock : shirif

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• thankfully basicaly all the money made goes right back to Valve too : jackomack
• Word. : etherealrhythm
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  1. Valve develops Steam. 2. Valve doesn't complain about piracy in PC gaming. (as far as I know, publicl... : poopsex_
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    There are cracks and shit out for steam games, you can still pirate steam games. but yeah, Valve know... : psycho100
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      yeah, there are cracks. But having an online distribution system which is as easy or easier than downloa... : poopsex_
      • Steam offers downspeeds of over 1 megabyte per second and allow users to access their games anywhere with... : FLESHPOUNDER
• Yeah it is pretty awesome that they have steam. What an invaluable tool it is for them, it does all of t... : 69gooch69
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  Agreed, love steam. Haven't been to a store in ages to get games. Also love when they have sales, the id ... : Silent1
  • ditto, i've bought more games in 2007-2008 then any other year. I think the last game I actually bought r... : flasher 907
• agreed, : easeup

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• 1280x1024 is a 5:4 ratio, I would always pick 1280x960 over it for 4:3 on a CRT. Unless I was using a L... : semaphore
• Most people still using CRTs likely have reasonably old ones. While mine used to be able to do 85Hz reall... : anhero
• I don't see any dicrepancy here, usually TFTs over DVI run in 60Hz IIRC, and there's prolly a bunch of pe... : yuried

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  some people play at whatever their desktop is. Also some like to be cool and play 800x600 for cs since th... : Iwannaacura
  • For CS 1.6, I still swear by 640x480. I definitely notice a difference in recoil and headshot registrati... : poopsex_
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  Athon 3000+ NVIDIA 7800 GS 1 gig of memory Onboard sound In TF2, that gives me ~25 fps in combat at... : cannelbrae
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    Something's not right there. : rustified
    • Sounds about right for AGP. : Lightzout
• I blame CS. : mrwolf710
• I run most games at 1024x768, have a old dell 19" CRT. AMD 3500+ 2 gigs of RAM 7900 GT Onboard Soun... : boomdeath
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  i still play q3 at that res : synapse19
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    (with an 8800gt on a 22" widescreen monitor) : synapse19
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      B-but why? It looks damn sexy in widescreen @16x10 with all the eye-candy cranked to the max w/AA+AF, and : mn3m0n1c
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        Visual clutter that only gets in the way when you need to see and hit people as fast as possible, that's ... : GreatGooglyMoogly
        • I can see that ...and perhaps it explains my lousy Q3A skillz, but I do like the added peripheral vision ... : mn3m0n1c
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          How the low resolution is lowering the visual clutter? : Turin Turambar
          • Too late reply, but that's to attain a high refresh rate, of course. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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        this is what my q3 looks like http://synapse.redphive.org/q3/q3-1.jpg : synapse19
        • I like that. lol I play the game at around 1024x768 still also. q6600 7800gt 2gb ram : mobab
• I run 1152X864, go ahead make fun of me : buzzbat
• 24"er running at 1920x1200, everything maxed.. how sweet it is.. couldn't imagine anything less : techx4
• I run all my games at 1440x900 on my cheap 8600GT. What is wrong with these people? go buy an 8600 for le... : thewindcriesmary

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• FWIW, the last 4 games I've bought at retail have all been on DVD. : deject
• The last game I bought was the DVD version of BF2. Since then it's all been Steam or other downloaded ga... : Enkidu
• It's finally getting better. Most of my newer stuff is on DVD. : Damodred

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  Well, being the 'third world' (India) gamer that I am, I use Athlon 64 X2 5200+ with 3gb DDR supporting m... : ortucis
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    You're from India? that's so cool. My girlfriend really wants us to go travel there but I'm kinda scare... : mnok
    • Well, I live in the capital (New Delhi) so we don't really have anything to be scared about anyway over h... : ortucis
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    I didn't mean to imply I discovered it, but if you doubt it just google for "8800 CPU scaling". For examp... : S1ing B1ade
    • Never trust these articles on most tech sites, unless you are a hardcore gamer who loves upgrading his sy... : ortucis

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  9% of steam customers? really? in what mystical world is this a lot? : synapse19
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    It's the largest identified video card group, almost doubling the 7600 and 8600 users, which are in fact ... : ZaldronGG
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      Steam users are about as far away from a valid base you can get in order to extrapolate an accurate repre... : synapse19
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        How is Steam an invalid base considering the Half Life series are phenomenally well sold and an accurate ... : ZaldronGG
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          It's not smugness, it's objectivity while looking at the big picture. It doesn't matter what you or I car... : synapse19
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            I am in no way debating the merits of Crysis-level productions and their marketability. I don't think I'v... : ZaldronGG
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              Incidentally, that means the back-catalogue players (due to not up to the job tech *and* light gamers) an... : ZaldronGG
              • I mean less than "half the total". Damn. : ZaldronGG
  • If 9% of the world population was to die tomorrow, isn't that a lot in this mystical world? About a quart... : ZaldronGG
• That would be Lucas Arts. : IHATEDUST

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• I laughed at my buddy from work when I went over to his house and saw him playing CS 4:3 on a 16:10 monit... : flubba79
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  Yeah. Kind of like people who watch standard definition TV on a widescreen with the image stretched. It d... : jad3d
  • it's even worse how stretch-o-vision has different ratios of stretch in different areas of the screen. : poopsex_
  • Yeah, when I go to friend's house they do that shit on their TVs and it's all I can think about while wat... : Speedy8
  • Some people worry about having differential screen burn-in if they constantly watch TV on only a square p... : LemonJoose
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  I play TF2 at 1152x864 in windowed mode using a 16:10 monitor at 1680x1050. I never miss an instant mess... : mobab
  • Yeah, but it isn't stretched *shudder* : SpikeMeister
• On another note; it's great nVidia finally got their AR scaling to work with 8 series cards. Now it's fin... : VisitorQ

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  I hope you enjoyed Crysis. : Archangel2007
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    I know I did. : Athlon7
    • Yup me too (single player) : [7]kami
• LOL. Wake up. To Shackers, it may seem like Valve's customers have shitty computers. In reality, the s... : LemonJoose

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• this site may help you, http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page : QMS|superdave
• I hate to say it, but the easiest solution if you want perfect widescreen support is to buy an Xbox 360 o... : LemonJoose

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• a 17" CRT usually has 16" actual viewing area : Old_Fart

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• Yeah, honestly I think they need to overhaul the way they're reading monitors. 16:10/16:9/5:4 need to hav... : zehh
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  Most LCD screens run at a refresh rate of 60 Hz so you might be able to extrapolate that 64% are on LCD ... : Bang!Splat*
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    The avarage user runs a CRT at 60Hz too, because that's what Windows defaults to. : Pulverisaattori
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      Not sure I'd agree. Windows also defaults to 800x600 and 16bit, but how many people run that? : Freon
      • changing resolutions is a lot less daunting to people who aren't as knowledgeable with computers than ran... : synapse19

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• They probably lump 16:9 and 16:10 together as widescreen. : PHeeNIxx
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  Yeah, my screen is technically 5:4, probably got lumped into 4:3. : kodt
  • Yep, most LCDs that aren't widescreen are 5:4. Such as 1280x1024. : OmegaRed59
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  in the options you can choose to play 16:9 or 16:10 i believe cod4 has it too. also 30 cpus 1 0.00 %... : Iwannaacura
  • That's hilarious. Some dude fired up Half-life 2 on some super computer at a research center or somethin... : Gwyndion
• More than you know. I, like many others, have my main game rig hooked up to a Westinghouse 37W3. They mak... : phased1841
• Some of this is also people using 4:3 resolutions on a widescreen monitor. Most people don't relize its s... : SirX
• Usually, but they do also make PC monitors in this aspect ratio as well (more in the laptop world than st... : carbontree
• Laptops, some people play on TVs instead. Some people choose 16:9 even if they have a 16:10 monitor eithe... : razlebol

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• I game at 1920x1080 (on a 4:3 screen) 16:9 is wider than 19:10 : Jimbo Ro
• Many laptops are 16:9. People probably play Peggle on their laptop and are labeled as "16:9" users. Most ... : avatar_58
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  I imagine it was just a typo and he meant 16:10, but widescreen TVs are generally 16:9. : Helter Skelter
  • It's the same on the survey site, though. And it's silly because pretty much all widescreen PC displays a : mn3m0n1c

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• Haha, I think that looks hilarious, I used that picture in a presentation, too. (these are a pair of the ... : razorblade79

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• Yeah, I'm glad to see DVD-ROMs are that entrenched, as well. : Ride-My-Rocket

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• Also... 3 dudes out there with 127 CPUs? What is that? Someone installed Steam on a render farm or someth... : Dynotaku