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鳳凰院凶真 21 Jun @ 10:19am

Hardware survey needs improvements

It isn't much informative. For example it is mixed statistics of laptops, ultrabooks, tablets, modern PCs and obsolete core 2 duo/xeon CPU based computers that for some reason still operating without upgrades more than a decade.

Statistics would be more informative if they would be displayed by device class, not only super rough overall summary, statistics should be more fair. For example "6 cores is the most frequent CPU configuration". But what 6 cores, on what platform, what generation. Is it some kind of ryzen 3600 or it's amd FX/Phenom? Is it mobile or desktop cores? Do they support SMT/MT? For what period of time?
Also Intel/AMD statistics for 2025 gaming PC configuration is also not so relevant, including obsolete e-waste like old 1-3 gen intel isnt' good idea.
Also storage types isn't specified. Sata SSD, pcie gen 3/4 or 5 m2 SSD or even HDD.

Statistics should be improved for giving more precise picture of gaming machines in nowadays.

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 21 Jun @ 10:44am

Originally posted by 鳳凰院凶真:
It isn't much informative. For example it is mixed statistics of laptops, ultrabooks, tablets, modern PCs and obsolete core 2 duo/xeon CPU based computers that for some reason still operating without upgrades more than a decade.

Statistics would be more informative if they would be displayed by device class, not only super rough overall summary, statistics should be more fair. For example "6 cores is the most frequent CPU configuration". But what 6 cores, on what platform, what generation. Is it some kind of ryzen 3600 or it's amd FX/Phenom? Is it mobile or desktop cores? Do they support SMT/MT? For what period of time?
Also Intel/AMD statistics for 2025 gaming PC configuration is also not so relevant, including obsolete e-waste like old 1-3 gen intel isnt' good idea.
Also storage types isn't specified. Sata SSD, pcie gen 3/4 or 5 m2 SSD or even HDD.

Statistics should be improved for giving more precise picture of gaming machines in nowadays.

Someone watched the WAN Show yesterday.

Start @36:39...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT1t1JlZugM

But most of those aren't quite relevant as you'd think.

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; 21 Jun @ 10:51am

rawWwRrr 21 Jun @ 10:49am

Originally posted by 鳳凰院凶真:
Statistics should be improved for giving more precise picture of gaming machines in nowadays.

Why?

How does the data it collects of value to you?

The data is for Valve's use and whatever value they place on it. It's display to us is more for transparency and curiosity of the results.

Last edited by rawWwRrr; 21 Jun @ 3:59pm

Ben Lubar 21 Jun @ 3:33pm

The statistics get filtered for each game on Steam, so game developers are looking at a sample of their playerbase, not a sample of all people who play games ever.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 21 Jun @ 3:56pm

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:
The statistics get filtered for each game on Steam, so game developers are looking at a sample of their playerbase, not a sample of all people who play games ever.

A breakdown of detailed stats in the Steam Sales & Reporting portal, select your game and then find "Hardware Survey" in the upper-right corner, correct?

https://x.com/aldenkroll/status/1331367364806336514

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; 21 Jun @ 4:11pm

Ben Lubar 21 Jun @ 6:24pm

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
Originally posted by Ben Lubar:
The statistics get filtered for each game on Steam, so game developers are looking at a sample of their playerbase, not a sample of all people who play games ever.

A breakdown of detailed stats in the Steam Sales & Reporting portal, select your game and then find "Hardware Survey" in the upper-right corner, correct?

https://x.com/aldenkroll/status/1331367364806336514

:nkCool:

Yep, that's the one!

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