Steam stats say low-end is gaining

[hendu]

http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/steam-h ... tly-slower

In the last few months, PCs with only one or two cores and only DX9-level graphics have increased their share. The article speculates it's due to either laptops or the East.

Dx9 gpu + dual core *gaining* popularity, quite interesting.

[Granyte]

How is that even possible there is no more dx9 hardware produced anymore.....

Unless the machines that run XP count as dx9 lvl and a hell of a lot of people rolled back

[ACE247]

No, Steam's hardware survey is quite detailed, Dx10+ capable hardware is marked as such even if you are running XP. What I think is, Valve suddenly had lot more survey's for steam users, or a lot of people who previously never played games much amd have a old pc suddenly bought a lot of games. Probably both are partly true.

[hendu]

This is their automatic data collection, so it applies to all steam users.

[ACE247]

It's not automatic per-say, you still have to agree to submit the data.

[Mel]

No wonder... The low end computers are those which still run, compared to the high end, high energy consumption, highly breakable systems <- sarcasm. Still, a DX9 app is able to run on Win XP so, it is also a way to see it.

[REDDemon]

How is that even possible there is no more dx9 hardware produced anymore.....

Unless the machines that run XP count as dx9 lvl and a hell of a lot of people rolled back

what about sold stuff that is no longer produced?