What are the Steam users playing on?
I haven't watched Valve Hardware Survey Results for a long time
Service Steam, a sample of almost 1.8 million components, which is better than the usual sample of the state statistics committee of 1,500 people from Kaliningrad to Chukotka. But still - it is only users of the Steam service. Although there is something to help in any case.
People sit on the fast Internet: almost 74% use 256kb / s and more, of which 31% - 2 Mbit channel. Users of modems are dying out - they are less than 5%, than it is advisable to neglect further in terms of development.
Similarly, we neglect RAM less than 512 MB - almost 40% of computers have from 2 GB and higher.
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Some 3 dudes play on computers with 127 processors, one dude on 30 processors is chopped. Two-processor machines became dofiga - almost 37%. (Physical processors, not cores)
We also neglect processors with frequencies below 1.7 Ghz.
The top video card is NVIDIA GeForce 8800 (9.4%), the rest are in Gaussian spread. Cards with 3 shaders make up 62%, with the second - 18%. Memory in the top - 256MB (38%), and 512 (19%).
DX7 was below 5%, so we also urgently discard them from specs.
The most popular monitor with a ratio of 4: 3 - 16 inches. I have never seen such a thing, to be honest. There are a lot of widescreen HD monitors - from 24 "- about 35% of all widescreen (and they make 1/4 of the total).
Few people will appreciate fps above 60, for most it is a native monitor fps.
But NextGen at 2560x1920 does not need to be in a hurry, as people are stubbornly sitting on their loved ones 1280.
HiFi sound also rested against no one, dominated by Realteca integrated into the motherboard. Estetov very few.
80% - WindowsXP, Vista only 15%. Those. DX10 will wait for now.
If you are localized, you need 4 languages - English, German, French, Russian, the rest - below 5%. The education system in the USSR turned out to be right.
Free space on the screws just to put a couple of new games that fit on DVD9 - from 10 to 19 GB leads. And more. So you can make lots and lots of content, if you have lots, lots and lots of money or itchy hands =).
Thus the average computer is approximately as follows:
2cpu intel 2.5GHz, 2Gb RAM, GeForce 8 series 256Mb, 17 "LCD 1280 4: 3, WindowsXP, Realtek AC97 Audio, 2Mbit internet.
Those. On the whole, the average PC is nominally (only nominally) more powerful than any of the current consoles, but without focusing on HD resolution, and at the same time not the console =). Apparently users have a lower resolution, but smoother FPS. The interface is also very few developers specifically sharpens for HD. The domination of the fast Internet is good (and what else to expect from the statistics of the digital distribution service? =). Modems and ping 500ms into the furnace.
PS Analysis made from the point of view of game-development.
Service Steam, a sample of almost 1.8 million components, which is better than the usual sample of the state statistics committee of 1,500 people from Kaliningrad to Chukotka. But still - it is only users of the Steam service. Although there is something to help in any case.
People sit on the fast Internet: almost 74% use 256kb / s and more, of which 31% - 2 Mbit channel. Users of modems are dying out - they are less than 5%, than it is advisable to neglect further in terms of development.
Similarly, we neglect RAM less than 512 MB - almost 40% of computers have from 2 GB and higher.
')
Some 3 dudes play on computers with 127 processors, one dude on 30 processors is chopped. Two-processor machines became dofiga - almost 37%. (Physical processors, not cores)
We also neglect processors with frequencies below 1.7 Ghz.
The top video card is NVIDIA GeForce 8800 (9.4%), the rest are in Gaussian spread. Cards with 3 shaders make up 62%, with the second - 18%. Memory in the top - 256MB (38%), and 512 (19%).
DX7 was below 5%, so we also urgently discard them from specs.
The most popular monitor with a ratio of 4: 3 - 16 inches. I have never seen such a thing, to be honest. There are a lot of widescreen HD monitors - from 24 "- about 35% of all widescreen (and they make 1/4 of the total).
Few people will appreciate fps above 60, for most it is a native monitor fps.
But NextGen at 2560x1920 does not need to be in a hurry, as people are stubbornly sitting on their loved ones 1280.
HiFi sound also rested against no one, dominated by Realteca integrated into the motherboard. Estetov very few.
80% - WindowsXP, Vista only 15%. Those. DX10 will wait for now.
If you are localized, you need 4 languages - English, German, French, Russian, the rest - below 5%. The education system in the USSR turned out to be right.
Free space on the screws just to put a couple of new games that fit on DVD9 - from 10 to 19 GB leads. And more. So you can make lots and lots of content, if you have lots, lots and lots of money or itchy hands =).
Thus the average computer is approximately as follows:
2cpu intel 2.5GHz, 2Gb RAM, GeForce 8 series 256Mb, 17 "LCD 1280 4: 3, WindowsXP, Realtek AC97 Audio, 2Mbit internet.
Those. On the whole, the average PC is nominally (only nominally) more powerful than any of the current consoles, but without focusing on HD resolution, and at the same time not the console =). Apparently users have a lower resolution, but smoother FPS. The interface is also very few developers specifically sharpens for HD. The domination of the fast Internet is good (and what else to expect from the statistics of the digital distribution service? =). Modems and ping 500ms into the furnace.
PS Analysis made from the point of view of game-development.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/42070/
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