Only 30% of PC gamers use Vista, says Valve

Valve's November Steam user metrics are up, and it's (still) a landslide for gamers running Windows XP.

Only 30% of PC gamers use Vista, says Valve

Nearly 70% of gamers use the 7 year-old XP

68% of Steam users connect to the online community and games service running the 32-bit version of XP, the distributor said. Compare with just 21% running Vista and a DX10-capable video card. Slightly more than that (25%) are running DX10 GPUs on XP, while a sobering 54% still play with DX9-or-below GPUs.

NVIDIA towers over ATI (27%) with the lion's share (64%) of GPU usage. Intel's nibbling crumbs with just 2%. Also: 87% of Steam users run with 4x anti-aliasing enabled, which surprised me, since I have a GTX 280 and often still leave AA zeroed to eek out those extra frames in trade for those highest-of-high level GPU-strangling details.

About 50% of Steam users have dual-core CPUs, a group that's grown steadily since June 2008, while quad-core users appear to have only inched up a percentage point or two in the same period (10%). The remaining 40%? Yep, still running single cores. In all, Intel dominates with 64% of Steam's CPU manufacturer demographic, compared with 37% for AMD.

Bear in mind NVIDIA has an install base in the hundreds of millions, so seemingly small percentages may be misleading here, but only 1.55% connect to Steam with two GPUs in SLI configuration, and just .01% have quad-SLI systems. Makes you wonder why NVIDIA even bothers to support the latter, frankly.

Favorite display resolution? Neatly tied between 1024 x 768 (25%) and 1280 x 1024 (25%).

via PC World

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donkeykong57

This is no surprise. Vista just isn't compatible with anything. I use XP and I don't even game on PC anymore (well kind of).

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newfgamer

Not compatible with anything? How dumb are you? vista works with everything, and is way betetr then Xp now. Of course a 6 year old OS wil still have more users then a 15 month old one, it took XP 3 years to surpass 2000, educate youself. Gaming performance has now tipped into Vistas favour (See HARDOCP benchmarks).

AceFondu

I'm a PC gamer and I have Vista. Vista is fine, I've noticed no problems with it other than it telling me I can't run programs due to its stupid defender. All that means is taking a minute of my time away while I add the .exe to the list of things I want to run, which for me is TEEMING with stuff.

donkeykong57

newfgamer wrote:

Not compatible with anything? How dumb are you? vista works with everything, and is way betetr then Xp now. Of course a 6 year old OS wil still have more users then a 15 month old one, it took XP 3 years to surpass 2000, educate youself. Gaming performance has now tipped into Vistas favour (See HARDOCP benchmarks).

Easy douche bag. I have Vista on my laptop and I can't stand it. Programs freeze, installations are problematic, games are somewhat compatible... etc

While I have Vista on my laptop and I use XP at my office computer so I do have a valid comparison. If Vista is so fucking godly then why is everyone complaining? And remember that the Vista problems aren't shared. One person may not have any problems with Vista while the next person can't install a simple program.

Get over yourself n00b

htown4life

titomister10 wrote:

Go get a Mac. It'll solve all your problems. OS X.


Which means no gaming for a person period...Nothin is compatible with Apple OS either so whats ur point?
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htown4life

donkeykong57 wrote:

newfgamer wrote:

Not compatible with anything? How dumb are you? vista works with everything, and is way betetr then Xp now. Of course a 6 year old OS wil still have more users then a 15 month old one, it took XP 3 years to surpass 2000, educate youself. Gaming performance has now tipped into Vistas favour (See HARDOCP benchmarks).

Easy douche bag. I have Vista on my laptop and I can't stand it. Programs freeze, installations are problematic, games are somewhat compatible... etc
While I have Vista on my laptop and I use XP at my office computer so I do have a valid comparison. If Vista is so fucking godly then why is everyone complaining? And remember that the Vista problems aren't shared. One person may not have any problems with Vista while the next person can't install a simple program.
Get over yourself n00b

In reality u people havin' Vista problems PC's actually just really suck ass seriously

wiiwillrocku

I use vista - dx10 card dual core... vista is fine. most of the compatibility issues have been handled. if a program doesnt work go in to properties and run it in xp compatability mode.. simple really. I actually like vista better than xp if my opinion counts. windows 7 which is coming out next year will get rid of the bugs and not be a resource hog

donkeykong57

htown4life wrote:

donkeykong57 wrote:

newfgamer wrote:


Not compatible with anything? How dumb are you? vista works with everything, and is way betetr then Xp now. Of course a 6 year old OS wil still have more users then a 15 month old one, it took XP 3 years to surpass 2000, educate youself. Gaming performance has now tipped into Vistas favour (See HARDOCP benchmarks).

Easy douche bag. I have Vista on my laptop and I can't stand it. Programs freeze, installations are problematic, games are somewhat compatible... etc
While I have Vista on my laptop and I use XP at my office computer so I do have a valid comparison. If Vista is so fucking godly then why is everyone complaining? And remember that the Vista problems aren't shared. One person may not have any problems with Vista while the next person can't install a simple program.
Get over yourself n00b


In reality u people havin' Vista problems PC's actually just really suck ass seriously

I think it's because Vista isn't compatible with every PC like XP is. My grandpa's old PC runs XP perfectly but I'm sure it can't handle Vista worth shit.

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