Technology has come a very long way since then, yet the latest results are still published every month.

But why did Valve start the survey?

It was to discover what minimum specs would allow most people to play Half-Life 2.

How Half-Life 2’s minimum specs led to the creation of the Steam Hardware survey

“What CPUs and GPUs did they have?

Which version of Windows?

Unfortunately, they didn’t have the data either.”

It’s been helping us and hopefully other developers make informed decisions ever since."