PC GamingEnglish · 1 month ago

Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2

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Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2

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PC GamingEnglish · 1 month ago

The first public Steam Hardware Survey came in April 2003, but there were private antecedents used by Valve earlier.

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You could attribute it to Crisis being so popular for not running on typical hardware

But optimizing a game is a waste of money when the majority of sales occur before release

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