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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 appearing as Steam’s most popular GPU in February 2026 is a headline-grabbing result — but a close read of the numbers, Valve’s recent client patch notes, and the market context shows this “victory” is far from a straightforward product-success story. Behind the banner...

Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey has long been a go‑to pulse check for PC gamers, hardware vendors, and developers — but the latest release has sent alarm bells through the industry. Large, simultaneous swings in language preference, operating system share, RAM and storage...

Steam's monthly Hardware & Software Survey produced one of the most dramatic single-month flips I've seen: a new most-used GPU, a sharp fall in Windows 11 share, and Simplified Chinese vaulting into first place — all unfolding while Valve quietly corrected a VRAM-reporting bug that likely...

Valve’s January 2026 Steam Hardware & Software Survey paints a familiar picture at first glance — mid-range NVIDIA cards and Full HD monitors still dominate — but the detailed numbers reveal a clear, accelerated migration toward larger video memory and bigger system RAM footprints that will...

AMD’s momentum among Steam players accelerated sharply in December’s Hardware Survey, with Team Red closing the gap on Intel while gamers — despite a global memory squeeze — pushed system RAM capacities higher than ever before. The Steam snapshot for December 2025 shows AMD CPU share jumping to...

Steam’s final Hardware & Software Survey of 2025 produced a decisive pair of storylines that set the tone for PC gaming in 2026: AMD closed significant ground on Intel in the CPU race among Steam users, and Windows 11 expanded its lead over Windows 10 inside Valve’s gamer‑centric...

Steam’s December 2025 Hardware Survey delivered a clear — and somewhat abrupt — message: Windows 11 is now the dominant OS among Steam users, vaulting to 70.83% of respondents in the month’s survey while Windows 10 receded and Linux’s slow momentum stalled. The survey also captured consequential...

Steam’s November Hardware & Software Survey landed with a clear, measurable shift: Windows 11 now runs on roughly two-thirds of Steam clients, while midrange laptop GPUs and 8 GB of VRAM have become the de facto baseline for many gamers — a set of changes that matters for gamers, developers...

Linux’s share of active Steam clients climbed again in November 2025, hitting 3.20 percent of the platform’s reported user base — a new all‑time high and the second consecutive monthly gain after October’s breakthrough — driven largely by SteamOS installs, growth in gaming‑focused distributions...

Windows 11 has just recorded another milestone among PC gamers, but the headline hides a stubborn and consequential reality: while Valve’s November Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows Windows 11 now running on roughly two-thirds of Steam clients, a substantial minority — nearly one-third of...

As of this November’s Steam Hardware & Software Survey, Windows 10 may have officially lost Microsoft’s support on October 14, 2025, but it is emphatically not gone: roughly 29.06% of Steam users were still running Windows 10 in November, while Windows 11 jumped to about 65.59% — a meaningful...

Valve’s October 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 back at the head of the GPU leaderboard while Windows 11 continues to consolidate its position among Steam users — a snapshot that tells a larger story about midrange dominance, laptop market dynamics, and...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

Windows gamers have quietly completed a generational shift: Valve’s September 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows Windows 11 (64‑bit) leading the platform for the first time, while Windows 10 continues a steep decline as Microsoft’s support deadline looms. The numbers are unmistakable —...

Windows gamers are waking up to a blunt reality: the Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows roughly one in three Steam-connected PCs still run Windows 10, and Microsoft’s formal end-of-support deadline is less than two weeks away — a convergence that sharpens security, compatibility, and fraud...

The September Steam Hardware & Software Survey delivered a clear signal to the PC gaming ecosystem: AMD’s CPU share among Steam users hit a new high (41.31%) while Intel slipped to a multi-month low (58.61%), and Windows 11 surged past the 60% mark on Steam (63.04%) as Windows 10 retreats ahead...

Steam’s September 2025 Hardware & Software Survey paints a decisive month for PC gaming: Windows 11 surged to a new high among Steam users while Nvidia’s midrange RTX 4060 family consolidated its position as the most common GPU, a combination that has immediate implications for gamers...

Millions of PC gamers are racing to replace whole systems — not just install a new OS — as the clock ticks down toward Windows 10’s official end of support on October 14, 2025, a change that industry researchers say is already reshaping the PC gaming hardware market and buying behavior...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

Valve is closing the book on native 32‑bit Windows support for Steam: starting January 1, 2026, the Steam client will no longer be supported on 32‑bit versions of Windows, a move that Valve says affects roughly 0.01% of users but carries outsized implications for legacy machines, embedded...