Not every Dwelling home windows shopper needs or can substitute their system to Dwelling home windows 11 (fairly loads keep on Dwelling home windows 10 no matter its imminent end of help), nonetheless the gaming viewers is further receptive to the model new OS. Valve opinions that in December 2024, Dwelling home windows 11 reached a model new all-time extreme on Steam.

In line with the most recent Steam {{Hardware}} and Software program program Survey outcomes, 54.96% of all Dwelling home windows clients are on Dwelling home windows 11. Closing month, the share elevated by 1.98 components. Dwelling home windows 10 respectively dropped to 42.39 (-0.92 components). 64-bit Dwelling home windows 7 has 0.15% (-0.06 components), and with it not able to run the most recent mannequin of Steam, it is anticipated to drop out shortly.

Although Dwelling home windows 11 is now the dominant mannequin on Steam, it has some powerful surfaces gaming-wise, significantly in its latest launch, mannequin 24H2. Microsoft not too way back paused the rollout of mannequin 24H2 to these using the Auto HDR attribute, plus some video video games stop working when engaged on the most recent Dwelling home windows 11 substitute.

There is not an information on what variety of clients have already moved to mannequin 24H2 (Microsoft not too way back elevated the scope of its rollout), so it is exhausting to tell what variety of are affected by these bugs.

Whole, 96.10% of all contributors throughout the December 2024 survey (participation is non-compulsory) use Dwelling home windows to entry Steam. Linux is second with 2.29%, and macOS has 1.61%.

On the {{hardware}} side, probably the most well-liked picks embody 16GB of RAM (45.07%), a six-core processor (31.67%), the Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics card (5.88%, now discontinued), 8GB of VRAM (34.91%), and a 1080p monitor (56.12%). Nvidia dominates the GPU section with an superior 75.67% market share (AMD has 16.24%), whereas Intel trumps AMD with 63.32% over 36.68%.

You presumably might be taught further about Valve’s latest Steam {{Hardware}} and Software program program Survey opinions on the official website online.