Asking Valve for Steam Survey Results

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 00:45:29 schrieb Scott Ritchie:
> Looking at the data we do have, we may be able to make a good guess from
> examining the video card driver name field.  Excluding NVidia, ATI, and
> Intel leaves just over 4% of respondents using an "other" video driver
> like the Wine one.  If even only a quarter of these "others" are using
> Wine, that still gives us 1% of the entire 10 million+ Steam user base,
> translating into hundreds of thousands of users.
It depends on how they find the vendor. If they go for the d3d string, then 
wine shows up as "Direct3D HAL", which would be identifyable. If they go for 
the PCI ID, then Wine installations show up as either ATI, NVIDIA, or Intel, 
unless the detection failed.

More interesting is the "Video Card Driver Name":
Video Card Driver Name
 
nv4_disp.dll  10,269  
53.43 %#####################################################
  ati2dvag.dll  5,060  26.33 %##########################
  nvd3dum.dll  2,698  14.04 %##############
  atiumdag.dll  571  2.97 %###
  ialmrnt5.dll  302  1.57 %##
  Other  319  1.66 %##

This identifies the DLL, and wine has none of them. So we'd show up in the 
Other section here. Possible others in Windows space are matrox, sis and 
other chips, as well as the generic vesa driver.

The best identification is the sound card name, or if Wine's display driver 
shows up as winex11.drv
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