Windows 10 64bit Is the Most Popular OS According to Steam Survey, NVIDIA & Intel Still Dominant

Mikeha

Each and every month, Steam conducts a survey to collect data about what kinds of computer hardware and software its customers are using. And according to the March survey, the most popular OS is Microsoft’s Windows 10 64bit. In addition, NVIDIA and Intel are still dominant as most PC gamers are still using Intel’s CPUs and NVIDIA’s GPUs.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/windows-10-64bit-is-the-most-popular-os-according-to-steam-survey-nvidia-intel-still-dominant/

rojoArcueid

Not surprised since Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs have been dominant for many years.

W10, on the other hand, looks like its getting better that more people are using it. I went back to 7 a while ago. Still not sold on their privacy and auto update things. Have they addressed that? W10 itself was fine, some of MS decisions were not.

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rojoArcueid

blueturtle13 said:

Most Steam users only have 1Gig of VRam as well

i'm still part of that group 

Quizzical

Recore said:

 most PC gamers are still using Intel’s CPUs and NVIDIA’s GPUs.

Depending on how many people are using AMD for either the CPU or the GPU but not both, the fraction of gamers using both an Nvidia GPU and an Intel CPU may or may not even be a majority, let alone "most".

Derros

The only thing keeping me from w10 is that the drivers for the wireless card I have seem to cause me to disconnect every 5 mins. The W7 drivers for it are fine.

filmoret

Steam's variety of games would show the gamer population in general.  We know that when it comes to modern games those statics would change drastically.  Nvidia would be more like 80% leaving amd at 18 and intel integrated somewhere around 2%.  I should force witcher 3 through my intel graphics and see if its playable. 

Quizzical

DMKano said:

I've updated all my PCs to win10 - for free - zero issues and it's been a year almost.

 I even had to do a full win10 restore from scratch (failed HD, no backup or rescue disks) for my nephew - and MS has a free download for a full reinstall without any rescue disks - that worked too - they do it by checking hardware during install if it matches with their activation database.


I know some folks are holding unto Win7 for dear life, heh, but seriously why?

If you're using hardware for which no Windows 10 driver exists, that's a pretty good reason not to upgrade.  My parents are in that situation with an older video card.

H0urg1ass

As someone who has worked in national security for 14 years now, I'll stick with Windows 7.

The issues I have with 10 will be ironed out by third party developers eventually, but I value my privacy more than Windows 10 offers.

H0urg1ass

DMKano said:

H0urg1ass said:

As someone who has worked in national security for 14 years now, I'll stick with Windows 7.

The issues I have with 10 will be ironed out by third party developers eventually, but I value my privacy more than Windows 10 offers.

You can manually lock down Win10 to be more secure than Win7.

You cannot.  In fact there are several background processes running that are constantly sending information back to MS, and if you attempt shut them down, then your computer will reboot.  The OS will cease to function if you attempt to disable them.

Quizzical

DMKano said:

Quizzical said:

DMKano said:

I've updated all my PCs to win10 - for free - zero issues and it's been a year almost.

 I even had to do a full win10 restore from scratch (failed HD, no backup or rescue disks) for my nephew - and MS has a free download for a full reinstall without any rescue disks - that worked too - they do it by checking hardware during install if it matches with their activation database.


I know some folks are holding unto Win7 for dear life, heh, but seriously why?

If you're using hardware for which no Windows 10 driver exists, that's a pretty good reason not to upgrade.  My parents are in that situation with an older video card.

That makes sense - hardware limitation would be the only viable reason - but there are folks in this very forum that are not hardware limited and are still running Win7 - you know who you are :P

If you've got a computer running Windows 7 and it's working well, you don't have much to gain by switching to Windows 10.  The only real possibilities are that it keeps working well or that the switch breaks something.

I actually have two computers still on Windows 7.  One is a laptop that I very rarely use (the last time it was turned on was probably last December) and see no reason to go through the fuss of upgrading and hope that everything still works.  The other is my previous desktop that crashed three times in nearly six years--much better stability than my current Windows 10 rig has had--but also hasn't been used in quite a while and is really just a backup computer at this point in case my main one unexpectedly fails.

filmoret

H0urg1ass said:

DMKano said:

H0urg1ass said:

As someone who has worked in national security for 14 years now, I'll stick with Windows 7.

The issues I have with 10 will be ironed out by third party developers eventually, but I value my privacy more than Windows 10 offers.

You can manually lock down Win10 to be more secure than Win7.

You cannot.  In fact there are several background processes running that are constantly sending information back to MS, and if you attempt shut them down, then your computer will reboot.  The OS will cease to function if you attempt to disable them.

Yea that is the only problem i have with the os.  Its more automated and  regardless of how you tell it will always reboot to default settings because Microsoft has deemed it necessary.  For the average user this isnt evident but to those who want to make certain changes it isn't possible without going into registry and tweaking stuff.  One simple thing like turning off windows defender is impossible.  I'm using windows 10 myself but the frustration sometimes....   Also i have windows 7 on one of my other computers because some of the games don't run on windows 10.

Quizzical

DMKano said:

H0urg1ass said:

As someone who has worked in national security for 14 years now, I'll stick with Windows 7.

The issues I have with 10 will be ironed out by third party developers eventually, but I value my privacy more than Windows 10 offers.

You can manually lock down Win10 to be more secure than Win7.

I've disabled stuff in privacy settings, then checked back months later to find out that it had somehow been re-enabled without my permission.  So I hope it's understandable that I'm somewhat skeptical of the "you can disable that" claims.

Malabooga

Heh, said that couple of months ago, february/march W10 would be no.1 OS for gamers and that transition would speed up once DX12 games started to pop up. Nothing surprising really.

MrNo

H0urg1ass said:

DMKano said:

H0urg1ass said:

As someone who has worked in national security for 14 years now, I'll stick with Windows 7.

The issues I have with 10 will be ironed out by third party developers eventually, but I value my privacy more than Windows 10 offers.

You can manually lock down Win10 to be more secure than Win7.

You cannot.  In fact there are several background processes running that are constantly sending information back to MS, and if you attempt shut them down, then your computer will reboot.  The OS will cease to function if you attempt to disable them.

lol just run Lynx this will solve most if not all concerns regarding this post.

Savageone

Has Windows 10 added any service packs yet? I installed Windows 10 on my stock off the shelf laptop and it runs fine. I am a little leery of installing it on my desktop.

MrNo

Quizzical said:

DMKano said:

H0urg1ass said:

As someone who has worked in national security for 14 years now, I'll stick with Windows 7.

The issues I have with 10 will be ironed out by third party developers eventually, but I value my privacy more than Windows 10 offers.

You can manually lock down Win10 to be more secure than Win7.

I've disabled stuff in privacy settings, then checked back months later to find out that it had somehow been re-enabled without my permission.  So I hope it's understandable that I'm somewhat skeptical of the "you can disable that" claims.

Only way to be proficient with this is if a person was so windows savvy that they can still execute dos commands.

olepi

I'm still running windows 7 on a machine I built a couple of years ago. Everything is running fine.

Why should I upgrade to Windows 10? What will I gain?

olepi

H0urg1ass said:

DMKano said:

H0urg1ass said:

As someone who has worked in national security for 14 years now, I'll stick with Windows 7.

The issues I have with 10 will be ironed out by third party developers eventually, but I value my privacy more than Windows 10 offers.

You can manually lock down Win10 to be more secure than Win7.

You cannot.  In fact there are several background processes running that are constantly sending information back to MS, and if you attempt shut them down, then your computer will reboot.  The OS will cease to function if you attempt to disable them.

What happens if your machine is not on the net, so nothing can be sent?

yaminsux

With Win 10 free upgrade, it's not surprising.

k61977

DMKano said:

I know some folks are holding unto Win7 for dear life, heh, but seriously why?

I have windows 7 on all my computers because I like being able to choose what runs in the background.  And as many others have stated Microsoft has taken it upon themselves to be able to turn processes back on without your consent, but you give them that right too when you install it.  I will do as I have done in the past probably and keep using 7 until I no longer can, if it isn't broken why fix it.

psiic

Notice my OS install date. Not sure I would put a lot of credence to the steam survey.

jesteralways

I am waiting patiently for the next line of AMD and Radeon products. They will be far better than the current line, i am sure of it.

psiic

Considering MS took money from homeland security to give them warrant-less access to our personal and private computers, will be a cold day in hell before I ever let windows 10 anywhere near my home. I am still pro constitution and anti nazi police state.  

Signex

First time in a long time that i went for a AMD GPU, 970 really isn't worth it over the R9 390. It's a no brainer.

psiic

Signex said:

First time in a long time that i went for a AMD GPU, 970 really isn't worth it over the R9 390. It's a no brainer.

Same for processor I retired an I7 970 first gen for an AMD FX 8320 and its way better for gaming.