Cause no publisher will ship anything, except collector's editions, on DVD in the US.Xenus said:
New Steam survey results (started April 5th)
- Thread starter Pete
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The parts I find interesting:
There are 6,000+ people with videocards that bought a $50 game when they could have bought a bottom-end DX7.0+ videocard with HW support instead to replace their awful integrated video.
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S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR 2,204 0.28 %
Intel(R) 82915G Express Chipset Family 2,146 0.28 %
Intel 810 2,060 0.27 %There are 6,000+ people with videocards that bought a $50 game when they could have bought a bottom-end DX7.0+ videocard with HW support instead to replace their awful integrated video.
Sharkfood said:
Even a Radeon 9550 is only $100 at Best Buy, and it's decently fast for a bargain card(I have one at work).
Of course, alot of the motherboards that have those chips don't have an AGP slot...I suppose Dell saves $0.50 by not soldering an AGP connector onto the PCB(the boards usually have the AGP slot there, just no connector soldered in). One of these days I'm going to try to take one of those boards and solder in one from a dead motherboard and see if it will work.
Not every piece of hardware listed there is being used on Half-Life2.
This is a Steam survey and includes all steam useres who participated. A huge ammount of which will only be running Counterstrike or Half-Life1, and neither of these require renderers of any significant power.
This is a Steam survey and includes all steam useres who participated. A huge ammount of which will only be running Counterstrike or Half-Life1, and neither of these require renderers of any significant power.
And what driver plague would that be?Fodder said:
Got mine in january and had very few driver issues between then and when I got my 6600GT for xmas.
Besides the Q3A "bug" ?
The bugs I had, were the game racer stopped working with a set, www.racer.nl , and richards burns rally flashing textures, which was more signicant imo, since it's a commerial game, and racer is not.
Granted I bought mine a few months after launch, I didn't have millions of bugs, just two, although they were show stoppers.
I also digged how it cost 220 with tax, and I was able to to flash it from oem 230mhz, to retail 275mhz, and take it a little over 300 mhz.
Used to have fun "playing" 3dmark2002 with it.
And it would appear with the GF6 series, nvidia have taken the crown back in terms cards in pcs, although that really isn't signicant since most people don't read reviews.
Atleast this time they brought the performance to go with the loud marketing though.
Huh?Alstrong said:Xmas said:No one able to solve this riddle?
24*1024KB
I wanted to know whether those categories, like "128 Mb to 256 Mb", stand for the former or the latter. Or more precise, does it mean >=128 to <256, or >128 to <=256? The first line seems to indicate the former (">=24 Mb to &lt32 Mb"), the last line seems to indicate the opposite ("Above 2.0 Gb"). So which is it?
This makes the most sense to me. I think they were just extremely lazy. Extremely.
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>=24 Mb to <32 Mb 4 0.00 %
>=32 Mb to <64 Mb 318 0.04 %
>=64 Mb to <96 Mb 199 0.02 %
>=96 Mb to <128 Mb 6,577 0.78 %
>=128 Mb to <256 Mb 101,682 12.02 %
>=256 Mb to <512 Mb 384,724 45.46 %
>=512 Mb to <1 Gb 324,069 38.30 %
>=1 Gb to <1.5 Gb 14,239 1.68 %
>=1.5 Gb to <2.0 Gb 14,386 1.70 %
>= 2.0 Gb 2 0.00 %I think that's most likely, too. However, I can't believe that out of almost 850k participants, there are only two with 2 GiB of memory.Alstrong said:
IMO they should have done it the other way round. Because on some systems, for some reason, Windows tends to report one MiB of memory less than is actually installed.
Why did they use ranges at all?
Xmas said:
What cards have that much let alone more than 256MB? Workstation cards?
Alstrong said:
There are quite a few different memory sizes if you want to consider everything back to voodoo1's.
I suppose a range of 2-16MB inclusive would be good, and then 32MB, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB+Random thought: I wonder if some of the DVD drives Valve counted were for the astoundingly handy DaemonTools or something similar?
Both TR and TheInq have noted the new survey (and what potentially little/specialised info it yields). Interesting note, I was prompted to check it out after Steam prompted me to share my system info. Wonder if they did the same?
Going by the driver numbers I quoted in the first post, Steam has added almost 150k extra systems. Pretty fast uptake. Note that the number of Unknown + Other cards has stayed the same, at 80k. Maybe I should see how the card numbers have changed.
Both TR and TheInq have noted the new survey (and what potentially little/specialised info it yields). Interesting note, I was prompted to check it out after Steam prompted me to share my system info. Wonder if they did the same?
Going by the driver numbers I quoted in the first post, Steam has added almost 150k extra systems. Pretty fast uptake. Note that the number of Unknown + Other cards has stayed the same, at 80k. Maybe I should see how the card numbers have changed.
And about all the people complaining about the X800XT PE being "not available"
high end:
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 4,249 0.49 %
vs
ATI Radeon X800 XT 6,898 0.79 %
very high end:
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme (not listed)
vs
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition 5,069 0.58 %
Old discussion, but still funny (especially if you do have an xt-pe like me...)
high end:
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 4,249 0.49 %
vs
ATI Radeon X800 XT 6,898 0.79 %
very high end:
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme (not listed)
vs
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition 5,069 0.58 %
Old discussion, but still funny (especially if you do have an xt-pe like me...)