Video game developer Valve has posted the results of its latest Steam-based hardware survey. The numbers don’t look too good for a Microsoft hoping that gamers will be attracted to Vista. Only 5.37 percent of Steam users, a fairly good indicator of the average Windows gamer, has Vista installed compared to 92.91 percent running XP. Even with Direct X 10, gamers just aren’t taking to the new OS yet.
Another interesting part of the survey is that only 13.2 percent of gamers are using widescreen displays. What give, gamers? Aren’t you guys supposed to be at the forefront of today’s leading digital trends?
Valve Survey Summary [Valve via Ars Tecnica]
I can’t live without my widescreen. It’s so purdy. But I’ve got a regular 19″ as well (dual screenin’ since 2007)
As for Vista..I’ve got it to. At first I liked it, but if you’re a gamer and you have an nVidia video card….might as well just throw your computer off a bridge. nVidia’s driver hardly support Vista, and support even less Games on Vista.
I’ve got an 8600GTS with the latest drivers, but when I play games I get a “so and so driver has ended but restarted” (forgot the name of the file…nvk…something or other). Which results in your game freezing and monitor going black for a few seconds, and then returning.
Now you may think it’s not that bad, but it is when it happens every minute or so, and you’re trying to attack something/someone when it happens. So this is why I think gamers don’t want to jump to Vista quite yet, but nVidia hardly supports it. (don’t know about ATI)