Are gamers falling behind in gaming hardware?

[Quikimpulse]

I seem to think that gamers are not catching up to the new technology thats being presented. Thanks to this servey by valve and for a member name ud!t for reminding me about the current servey by valve, it shows the percentage of what current gamers are using as far as gpus, cpus, and Ram. http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
And from what i have studed majority of pc users don't even have beyond 512mb of ram and are still playing on dated gpus. From what i am seeing there are a large percentage of people this servey that can only play bf2 at low settings or not at all :hmm: . What do u think about this.........?

edit: oh yeah it seems that 500,000+ users were included in this servey

[tripleplay369]

Most people that use Steam only play Counter Strike.

[^Garf*uk*]

i dont think that is true,if u r a true pc gamer ur pc will be maxed out

[Quikimpulse]

You must have never played cs before cause most of them are extremely dedicated gamers and this servey was done off mostly cs and cs:s users or pretty much anyone who has half life or half life 2

[321]

Yeah, the requirements for Counter-Strike 1.6 and even Counter-Strike Source aren't very high and many people only play Counter-Strike.

[Quikimpulse]

but think about it this way how many people also have half life 2 who are currently members of this forum. probably almost all of us at least i know i have it. Which means this servey is alot more expansive than u think because u have to have steam in order to play half life 2 also.

[Nitemare]

If they had a survey for BF2, you wouldn't have made this thread. Alot of people (including myself) upgraded alot or bought a whole new system just to be up to date for this game.

[Quikimpulse]

i hope u actually don't believe every one can afford to upgrade there pc cause of this game most people who have bf2 are probably playing on low settings. And I think if they did a servey on bf2 u would see most of the players playing on low end cards.

[BravoTwoZeroUK]

I never seen to be spot on with the specs I always have something failing me at the moment I have 512mb got a 6800GT but obviously newer better cards are out.
PC Gaming is just too expensive work all week to buy a graphics card :hmm:
Got billes to pay food to buy and trying to keep up with expensive gucci items for gaming on PC getting abit silly now.
Dont get me wrong I prefer PC's over consoles but if any of us have a good social life you won't be able to pay for a decent rig.

[Fiasc0]

why do you wann buy a better graphic card ??? Many of us ( me included) bought months ago a cpu who support 64bit technoligy . wheres my 64bit- OS ???

I still have a 6800GT and play on low, cuz i dont need a new colourflash i need a running game . I will see the enemy i dont care how many Coconuts hanging on a tree.

[SmilingRaccoon]

anyone who can drop over 1500 on a computer either has to much money or too little life

[Stripper_Clown]

anyone who can drop over 1500 on a computer either has to much money or too little life

You forgot one: they know how to budget their money.

[SirAndrew]

about hardware
check this guy:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/web/display/20050811231553.html

[NoConflict]

holy crap, 4 CPUs!!!!! some1 is using their dads server...

[SmilingRaccoon]

You forgot one: they know how to budget their money.

well not really i meant the people who would spend that much money on a gaming computer are either hardcore gamers or have nouf money not to care, budget would imply your a gamer since in the long run your still putting that much money into something for playing games. sorry if ya thought i meant non gaming computers tho, i can see people dropping that much into a work computer for stuff like video editing.