Valve & Intel Work On Open-Source GPU Drivers

[kwahoo]

Steam client can detect Wine. My "Steam - System Information"

    
Operating System Version:
    Windows XP (32 bit)
    Wine version: wine-1.5.9
    NTFS:  Supported
    Crypto Provider Codes:  Supported 323 0x0 0x0 0x0
    
Video Card:
    Driver Not Detected

    DirectX Driver Name:  ati2dvag.dll
    Driver Version Not Detected
    DirectX Driver Version:  6.14.10.8681
    Driver Date Not Detected
    Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
    DirectX Card: AMD Radeon HD 6600 Series
    VendorID:  0x1002
    DeviceID:  0x6758
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    No SLI or Crossfire Detected
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 20.00" x 11.26"  (22.91" diag)
                                            50.8cm x 28.6cm  (58.2cm diag)
    Primary Bus Type Not Detected
    Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes Not Detected
    
Sound card:
    Audio device: Pulseaudio

Has anyone seen "pulseaudio" soundcard under Windows? I don't think so

[asdx]

The Windows Steam client explicity asks for the Wine version string. A native Windows will report nothing, but wine exposes this information if the app requests it.

Very nice.

[asdx]

Steam client can detect Wine. My "Steam - System Information"

    
Operating System Version:
    Windows XP (32 bit)
    Wine version: wine-1.5.9
    NTFS:  Supported
    Crypto Provider Codes:  Supported 323 0x0 0x0 0x0
    
Video Card:
    Driver Not Detected

    DirectX Driver Name:  ati2dvag.dll
    Driver Version Not Detected
    DirectX Driver Version:  6.14.10.8681
    Driver Date Not Detected
    Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
    DirectX Card: AMD Radeon HD 6600 Series
    VendorID:  0x1002
    DeviceID:  0x6758
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    No SLI or Crossfire Detected
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 20.00" x 11.26"  (22.91" diag)
                                            50.8cm x 28.6cm  (58.2cm diag)
    Primary Bus Type Not Detected
    Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes Not Detected
    
Sound card:
    Audio device: Pulseaudio

Has anyone seen "pulseaudio" soundcard under Windows? I don't think so

Awesome.

[AJSB]

I knew it !!!! thats why they wanted to me fill in a survey.... i finally did it and they collected a bunch of info about my Slackware PC


I bet that Valve has being collecting info about our hardware for a long long time


I bet they collected not only info about hardware but also about the the games types that LINUX players play under WINE....

[Kano]

Well the game types... Basically every source engine title is the same gametype, just some are better for single player and others are better for multiplayer. All are first person shooters, did you see something else directly from valve?

[Licaon]

Very nice.

yeah, that's 2011, but guess they're doing it for a longer time: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...367#post214367

[GreatEmerald]

Has anyone seen "pulseaudio" soundcard under Windows? I don't think so

Actually yes, yes I have. Not Wine, though.

[kwahoo]

All are first person shooters, did you see something else directly from valve?

Hmm... Dota 2, Ricochet

[entropy]

The Windows Steam client explicity asks for the Wine version string. A native Windows will report nothing, but wine exposes this information if the app requests it.

That's great for sure. Nevertheless, I am a potential Linux-only user but still have my Windows partition for games (mainly Steam games).
I don't use WINE. How do they get that into their statistics? Ofc, they don't. On the contrary, it strengthens the Windows statistics obviously.

I guess there's no official Steam/WINE statistics available?

[AJenbo]

Then run the survey on wine :-P

I'm sure they factor in some percentage as would be migratory users.