Valve hardware survey shows Vista slowly gaining ground with gamers

Valve's hardware summary, conducted over its popular gaming platform Steam, can be an interesting snapshot of what gamers are packing in their systems. It's debatable how representative first-person shooter fans are of gamers as a whole, but looking at the results of the survey in relation to last spring's results, there are some interesting trends.

[PimpHandHappy]

wasnt Valve created by former MS big wigs?

yes it was

and vista has failed because it was to ahead of the times and nothing works with it.

Good to see Valve is still backing their daddy

[gamesR4fun]

After a taste of that os Ive decided to use ubuntu has my 64 bit os free and ten times the performance not to mention way more reliable than any windows system. The only pc games worth buying imo are linux compatible. So Cyris can suck my wang bring on the ut3.

[Bnet343]

It already sold over 60 million copies kid .... yes it sucks, but saying it failed is a stupid thing to say.

[xplosneer]

It's not me that's for sure.

[OOG FunK]

meh not like vista failed....hell its packed in all new pcs now it just will be a matter of time till it is the main OS...thats MS territory

[xsteinbachx]

if your playing games you usally have a MS OS soo either way they've won.... it just depends on when you buy the new OS when yours becomes obsolete.

[beoulve]

bought new notebook that come with vista. Super slow even with 2 gig of rams. Called up the support and support said "Don't worry they received a lot of complain about this." so they sent me XP with $100 coupon free of charge. I'm happy.

[gamesR4fun]

ya nothing sucks ram like Vista glad they gave you their last decent os and free 100$ coupon for wasting your time.

[Cat]

yeah, bunch of my coworkers got a deal on notebooks with vista; they're all using xp now.

[Bnet343]

I suggest you wait for service pack 1

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Oh wait all of them are already here LOL come on one of those is free but people still choose not to use it. I love my Mac but it doesnt do to much, photo and video.

[Bladestar]

the worst windows OS would sell more copies and have a larger installbase than MAC or linux... hell even Windows Me has a larger installbase and it was a disaster.

Just like any new OS specially those that have major changes there will be issues.

Lots of people are simply dumb and think that computer simply should work... for example, we have people trying to install vista on old hardware.. or run programs that were designed for previous OS such as windows 2000 or even 98.

I have 2 computers running vista in my home, 3 running windows XP, 1 running linux, quintom PBX box (voice IP) running unix and 1 running windows 2003 server, 1 running OSX mac.

The computers running vista do not have 1 piece of hardware that is not certified for vista and therefore I have no problems.

I do not.. I repeat do not gamble with the programs I run in each one of these computers.

For example, My main development environment is windows XP... there I'm running visual studio 2005, Sharpdevelop, Sun Java Studio Enterprise IDE, SQL server express... etc... I would never install these on a vista machine until service pack 1 or 2.

Think of vista the same way you think of a MAC.... if you have an old MAC that has OS8... you wouldnt think of installing OSX on it... would you? why are you trying to do that with vista?

I think Vista is more stable and better than what XP was when it was first released... xp got where it is... after service pack 2. lots of you are too dumb to remember that.

Eventually vista will get a service pack, hardware will continue to be made for vista, and software vendors will create softfware for the OS.... and people will forget vista gave them problems.. happens with every OS.