Survey: todays gamers hardware

[GD]

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

Over 1.5m people that play Valve games were taken into account for a hardware survey.
Really some helpful information for us developers.

One thing I concluded from this is, from now on, there is no point making 3D apps without shaders less than 1.4 shader model... Some would say even 2.0.

Edit:

Cards which default to DirectX 9 Shader Model 3 Path on Source (1074908 of 1740943 Total Users (61.74% of Total) )

Cards which default to DirectX 9 Shader Model 2 Path on Source (312912 of 1740943 Total Users (17.97% of Total) )

Wow

[sybixsus]

One thing I concluded from this is, from now on, there is no point making 3D apps without shaders less than 1.4 shader model... Some would say even 2.0.

That conclusion is only valid if you're going to be distributing said 3D app via Steam. If said 3D app is going to be used in schools or government institutions, or if it's going to be sold to casual gamers, your demographic is going to be completely different from Steam. I only mention this because people do routinely draw conclusions from Steam as though the average Steam user were the average computer user. Steam is very much a hardcore gaming portal.

[sammael]

That conclusion is only valid if you're going to be distributing said 3D app via Steam. If said 3D app is going to be used in schools or government institutions, or if it's going to be sold to casual gamers, your demographic is going to be completely different from Steam. I only mention this because people do routinely draw conclusions from Steam as though the average Steam user were the average computer user. Steam is very much a hardcore gaming portal.

Amen to that.

[GD]

Sure, amen to that. But my subject says gamer's hardware. In your faces haha!

[newborn]

Sure, amen to that. But my subject says gamer's hardware. In your faces haha!

Should I understand from your last post that anyone not playing a game distributed by Steam is not a game player?

[Raine]

I think that the average player has a good enough box to play. But that's just a feeling, since nowadays pc's aren't that expensive... even in Italy!

If you plan to buy a laptop, that's another story.