[sldev] Valve/Steam Hardware survey.

[Tateru Nino]

Dzonatas wrote:
> Jason Giglio wrote:
>> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 16:12 -0400, Jason Giglio wrote:
>>>> It's in the official minimum requirements.  But there's no
>>>> requirement that SL run fast on those chips, so if it's just going
>>>> to be slower on those chips, I say go for it.  SL is probably
>>>> already pretty horrible on such chips, making it a little worse
>>>> isn't going to matter much.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's a solid philosophy. Lets give tax breaks to the rich as
>>> well. (Dzonatas isn't the only one who can stretch a metaphor. :)
>>
>> To abuse it even more, taking performance away from chips made in the
>> last 5 years to support these platforms that can't realistically run
>> SL anyway, is more like taxing everyone to make sure that only
>> homeless bums on the street have $50,000 a year in income, even when
>> the middle class is being taxed to well below that income.
>>
> That survey doesn't seem to even include hardware that has been
> purchased by educational grants or welfare checks. I mean there may be
> hardware on that survey was originally purchased purely for business
> reasons. It could create quite a, likewise, tax headache to really
> sort things out when you know it is not looked at straight across the
> board.
>
We have the viewer source code right here and can use it to sample the
hardware. It wouldn't be too hard to arrange with LL to survey the SL
userbase hardware with their cooperation (because that data should be
posted centrally, and handled in aggregate away from us as individuals,
IMO). That would give you a better picture of the capabilities of
SL-user's hardware than the steam survey would.

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Tateru Nino
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