discussion Steam releases latest Game Hardware Survey

[Marzipan]

AMD, Win 11 and users with 64GB of RAM all have increases.

AMD CPU use jumps almost 5% and they now capture over half the user vase. 32GB of RAM dropped a tenth of a percent while 64% grew to a 6th of a percent with 16GB capturing almost 50%. 6GB GPU also dropped in favor of 8GB GPU and lastly, Windows 11 machines grew over 6% and now have 55% of the user base with Windows 10 clinging on at 43%...and humorously, Win 7 still has some stragglers, with some 0.13% of machines using it.

AMD CPUs and 64GB RAM show strong gains in new Steam Hardware Survey

6GB VRAM takes a dive, but 70% of GPUs still have 8GB of less.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[belgolas]

Is it worth it to switch to Windows 11?

 

[Lysrin]

Is it worth it to switch to Windows 11?

That is such a loaded question lol I have been running it for a while now. Works fine for me. I did buy StartAllBack to tweak menus and taskbar, but in terms of performance it's been good for me.

Really the big driver in my mind would be support for Windows 10 going away. That isn't gaming related specifically, but is an important issue to me. I have several older but still usable laptops in use that don't pass the test for Windows 11 so I am going to have to decide what to do with those at some point.

 

[Bond007]

Is it worth it to switch to Windows 11?

Agree with Lysrin. I have no issues with win11 other than I don't like some of their over all decisions for it. With support for win10 going away, and with some newer system features being win11 exclusives (wifi7?), I don't see a major reason not to do it.

My opinion is that if its a system you will have for another couple years+, I would just go to win11 now (you will likely end up there eventually anyway). And if its a system that will be retired within the next couple years, its your call (but I would unless you really don't plan to have it much longer).

The only system I have that is still on win10 is my TV box, which is an ond i5 2400 (not able to go to win11), and it will be getting replaced eventually. My desktop, laptop and son's computer are all on 11.

 

[Jokester]

I'll be using win10 right till the support ends. I see no value in upgrading to win11 atm. Everytime I turn around there's a performance hit of some kind with it.

 

[Izerous]

I saw a small performance jump moving to 11. My w10 install wasn't GPT or whatever and I couldn't enable SAM. Moving to W11 auto converted everything and allowed me to enable SAM. Not a huge jump but an increase either way.

 

[Shadowmeph]

if you are on win 10 is working good for you, don't bother upgrading, I only see the hassle of doing the whole install or going through the whole upgrading crap for no performance differences that I notice. For myself if I didnt play games that don't work unless you are on Windows then I would just use a Linux Distro

 

[moocow]

Just found out about 0patch. They offer 3rd party patching so you could technically still run Windows 10 but at 25 euro per month per machine if you want more than just 0 days patching.

Pricing and Plans - 0patch

0patch.com

 

[Marzipan]

Just found out about 0patch. They offer 3rd party patching so you could technically still run Windows 10 but at 25 euro per month per machine if you want more than just 0 days patching.

Pricing and Plans - 0patch

0patch.com

its $30 USD / year if you want the full meal deal. if you're okay with just getting 0-day patches, they will provide those at no charge.

edit - I personally would take MS 1 year and then switch to 0 Patch and go from there.