HL2 Hardware Survey

***Zardon*** · Mar 9, 2004, 10:07 AM

"The results of the Half Life 2 Hardware Survey are in with over a half a million people taking part in the survey. Most interesting is the fact that most people are still using older low-end NVIDIA based graphics cards. Of the people using newer graphics cards, ATi 9600/9700/9800 cards dominate with very few people using newer GFFX 5700/5900/5950 hardware. There is a lot more information to be gleaned from the survey results, take a few minutes and have a look, the results might just surprise you.

This mostly automated survey collects information about Steam users' computer hardware (and some software). Valve plans to use this information to tune the performance of Half-Life 2. In three days, the survey has so far collected information from almost half a million respondents."

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BWX · Mar 9, 2004, 11:25 AM

Well I certainly hope that just because most people use cheap low-end Nvida cards running in 16bit color mode, that they don't decide to "tune" the game for those systems.

wertret · Mar 9, 2004, 11:32 AM

It's a very significative point that those who have upgraded to new VPUs have chosen ATI

zerodamage · Mar 9, 2004, 11:49 AM

Lets hope not. I want to see the game soon, not another year because there are a lot of people only playing CS and decide to stick with old Geforce MX cards so Valve decides to code the game again for them.

Mar 9, 2004, 10:07 AM	#1
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,290 Rep Power: 3150	HL2 Hardware Survey "The results of the Half Life 2 Hardware Survey are in with over a half a million people taking part in the survey. Most interesting is the fact that most people are still using older low-end NVIDIA based graphics cards. Of the people using newer graphics cards, ATi 9600/9700/9800 cards dominate with very few people using newer GFFX 5700/5900/5950 hardware. There is a lot more information to be gleaned from the survey results, take a few minutes and have a look, the results might just surprise you. This mostly automated survey collects information about Steam users' computer hardware (and some software). Valve plans to use this information to tune the performance of Half-Life 2. In three days, the survey has so far collected information from almost half a million respondents." sourced from HARDOCP View stats on steampowered

Mar 9, 2004, 11:25 AM	#2
BWX Spinal Tapped Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,573 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	Well I certainly hope that just because most people use cheap low-end Nvida cards running in 16bit color mode, that they don't decide to "tune" the game for those systems. __________________ One Big Ass Mistake America

Mar 9, 2004, 11:32 AM	#3
wertret Still watching... Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Orihuela (Spain) Posts: 1,560 Rep Power: 0	It's a very significative point that those who have upgraded to new VPUs have chosen ATI __________________ "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Mar 9, 2004, 11:49 AM	#4
zerodamage DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,574 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Lets hope not. I want to see the game soon, not another year because there are a lot of people only playing CS and decide to stick with old Geforce MX cards so Valve decides to code the game again for them.