Hardware Survey results in... And the winner is:

[CSN NewsBot]

There has been a new Steam Update, with some interesting notes about the state of hardware used to play Valve and others' games on Steam. Also, there is news of a recent update for Darwinia.



In other Steam related news, this week also saw the release of Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45.

Recently we refreshed the Steam hardware survey to get a fresh look at what kind of hardware the community is currently running. In this version of the survey, which many of you have already seen, we are gathering a number of new pieces of data. Now that we're approaching 500,000 unique responses, there are a few trends worth noting:

• Most of you (88%) are running with a traditional CRT as your display device.
  
  
• The split between AMD and Intel processors continues to stay very close as it has in the past. AMD has a slight lead with 52% of the community's processors.
  
  
• Nvidia and ATI video cards are the dominant providers, with Nvidia cards occupying about 52% of your PCs.
  
  
• Most of you have DVD drives in your PCs, or around 92%.

You can also check out the full results of the survey.



Meanwhile, Introversion released an update to Darwinia last week to add a difficulty system to the game. People who purchased the game should have a fun challenge trying to make it through some of the later levels with these higher difficulty levels.

[Deletable_Man]

Lol, look at all the tards using Win 98 and Win ME. XD

[[GH]-Paladin]

makes me feel cool that i'm one of the 114 people that have over 2gb of ram :-p

[ukHazard]

Same here. I thought there'd be more of us...

[Zips]

I'll be in that "group" soon enough.

[Sava]

I'm surprised that less than 2% of people are running 1600x1200... I figured there would be more than that. I guess 1280x1024 is the popular resolution above 1024x768.



And who are the 763 people with less than 10GB of total hard drive space? LOL

[B33r in H33r]

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this is making me feel worse and worse about my 4 year old POS

[QwaCKHA]

I'm sitting pretty with my PC specs.



However, my network speed is brutal compared to most...

[obsidianelite6]

1280x1024 is probably popular because of 17" LCDs...



And yeah, 10GB hd space is pretty pitiful, lol.



I wonder when we can say 10TB is pitiful.

[Ryosuke T]

i say they probably filled their hd with pron. hahaha.



i only have 2gbs and i use 1280x1024 resolution =)



interesting results

[videege]

I'd highly suspect that the people with < 10 gb of free hd space are kids with laptops. I know I use my lappy to play cs:s now and then, but my laptop only has ~33 gb (theoretically 40) of space to begin with, so it fills up quick.

[Sava]

No... it's 10 gb TOTAL space! Not just free space.

[Novamero]

It would be hilarious to be in one of the categories with 1

[Mad Dog McKill]

damn.. Someone's playing cs on a 47" Widescreen display..

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"Most of you (88%) are running with a traditional CRT as your display device."



Well I'm running a LCD (with drivers installed) and it says in the hardware profile I'm running a CRT, so if mine was detected wrong, others probably were as well.