Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 00:45:29 schrieb Scott Ritchie:
Looking at the data we do have, we may be able to make a good guess from examining the video card driver name field. Excluding NVidia, ATI, and Intel leaves just over 4% of respondents using an "other" video driver like the Wine one. If even only a quarter of these "others" are using Wine, that still gives us 1% of the entire 10 million+ Steam user base, translating into hundreds of thousands of users.
It depends on how they find the vendor. If they go for the d3d string, then wine shows up as "Direct3D HAL", which would be identifyable. If they go for the PCI ID, then Wine installations show up as either ATI, NVIDIA, or Intel, unless the detection failed.
More interesting is the "Video Card Driver Name": Video Card Driver Name
nv4_disp.dll 10,269 53.43 %##################################################### ati2dvag.dll 5,060 26.33 %########################## nvd3dum.dll 2,698 14.04 %############## atiumdag.dll 571 2.97 %### ialmrnt5.dll 302 1.57 %## Other 319 1.66 %##
This identifies the DLL, and wine has none of them. So we'd show up in the Other section here. Possible others in Windows space are matrox, sis and other chips, as well as the generic vesa driver.
The best identification is the sound card name, or if Wine's display driver shows up as winex11.drv