By now the percentages have stabilized to the point that an official news post can be made about it.
Until today we got information from 5700 users and I want to say "thank you" for giving us the info needed to move on with GZDoom.
So here's the important results:
57% of the reporting users use a graphics card which is DX12/Vulkan compatible.
34% of the reporting users use a graphics card which is at least OpenGL 3.3 compatible, i.e. it can use the modern core profile render path.
6% of the reporting users use a graphics card which only has OpenGL 2 support, i.e. has to be run in legacy mode.
8.5% of the reporting users have made a report for the software renderer
3% of the reporting users only made a report for the software renderer
A further breakdown of the 8.5% reporting use of the software renderer:
49% of these also reported using the hardware renderer with a DX12/Vulkan compatible graphics card.
40% of these also reported using the hardware renderer with a GL 3.3 compatible graphics card.
11% of these also reported using the hardware renderer with a GL 2 compatible graphics card.
Only 17 out of those 5700 users only reported running the game in pure software mode - that is less than 0.3%.
Distribution of operating systems is:
88% Windows
2% Mac
10% Linux
85% use 64 bit on a 64 bit system
10% use 32 bit on a 64 bit system. (This one's odd, I'd appreciate if some of these users can tell us why.)
6% use 32 bit on a 32 bit system
(duplicate reports bring this above 100%)
So there you have it. All things considered the average hardware being reported is a lot better than what we would have expected and this will allow us to focus development more on where the users are. What this clearly shows is that even among retro gamers that old feature-poor hardware is slowly being replaced.
So what does this mean for how GZDoom will develop? Watch the Blogs forum for the next few days, there will be an update about the current plans.
And now that the survey has run its course, prepare for a new GZDoom version where it will be deactivated again during the coming week. The survey has given us a lot of useful information but further reports do not seem to affect the numbers much more, the percentages have barely changed since last weekend.