Steam hardware survey causing crashes (so next round of statistics will under-represent Wine users)
Just a small note but occasionally we hear from Valve about steam statistics and the percentage of Wine users.
I just got a crash from running the survey. It makes me pretty unlikely to click the button again, even if it doesn't crash in the future. I imagine other users would feel similarly.
This means we might be substantially underestimating Wine users if we use the Valve hardware survey as a basis. Last I remember we were at 0.4% or so, but that was over a year ago.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org wrote:
Just a small note but occasionally we hear from Valve about steam statistics and the percentage of Wine users.
I just got a crash from running the survey. It makes me pretty unlikely to click the button again, even if it doesn't crash in the future. I imagine other users would feel similarly.
This means we might be substantially underestimating Wine users if we use the Valve hardware survey as a basis. Last I remember we were at 0.4% or so, but that was over a year ago.
This is some thing new with the major refresh they did recently and is easily reproducible by going to Help -> System Information in the main Steam window.
Console output resulting from the profiler running: fixme:dbghelp_dwarf:compute_location Only supporting one breg (18 -> 24) fixme:dbghelp_dwarf:compute_location Only supporting one breg (17 -> 23) fixme:dbghelp_dwarf:compute_location Only supporting one breg (17 -> 23)
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