The power of DirectX 12: Nearly half of all Steam users are now on Windows 10

By Darren Allan

Windows 10 continues to make good headway with gamers according to the latest statistics from Steam, despite the fact that the freebie offer for the OS isn’t in effect any more.

Valve’s latest figures on operating system usage across the Steam user base are for August, the first full month when Windows 10 hasn’t been available as a free upgrade (the offer expired at the end of July).

And they show that Windows 10 is now within touching distance of the magic 50% mark. For August, 47.44% of Steam denizens were using Windows 10 64-bit, with 1.51% using Windows 10 32-bit, for a total of 48.95% on Microsoft’s newest operating system.

That’s an increase of 2.7% compared to the previous month, a sizeable leap, and a considerably bigger one than the increase from June to July which was 1.79%.

So the free upgrade offer disappearing down the pan hasn’t made a jot of difference to the number of Steam addicts adopting Windows 10, doubtless because there’s a major lure for gamers when it comes to the OS: if you want DirectX 12, you can’t stick with Windows 7/8.1 as they don’t support the technology.

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming