“Steam Hardware and Software Statistics: April 2022”

Steam published April software and hardware statistics. They didn’t come with any shocking change except that they leveled the strange anomaly from March. At that time, the number of Chinese players jumped dramatically (they should have made up half of all Steam), and Windows 10 strengthened by 10 percentage points at the expense of Eleven.

Participation in the measurement is voluntary, it does not cover the entire player community, so apparently there was a sampling error that mixed up the cards. In April, the numbers returned to a level similar to those of February and earlier. Most players use English (35.6%), followed by Chinese (25%). By the way, Czech is sixteenth with a 0.5% representation.

The shares of operating systems also returned to their original values. Steam is dominated by Windows 10 (61%), followed by Windows 11 (33.4%) and Windows 7 (1.3%). All versions of macOS together have 2.3%, Linux then 1.3%.

Two-thirds of computers run on an Intel processor. A typical computer has six cores (33.5%), 16GB of RAM (52.2%), and a total storage capacity of more than one terabyte (49.3%).

Graphics cards are clearly dominated by Nvidia (76.1%), AMD has a 15% share, Intel 8.6% and other manufacturers then 0.3%. Nvidia also owns the first twelve most widespread GPUs. Cards from the bottom of the food chain such as GeForce GTX 1650, GTX 1060, RTX 2060 or RTX 3060 clearly lead, all of which have around 5% representation. With the exception of the RTX 3080 (1.88%), no high-end card – current or past – has more than one percent.

Gamers also most often use monitors with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 px, almost 65% of them. QHD is second with 12.5% ​​representation, less than three percent of people play in 4K.