"Steam released its hardware survey from March of 2019. Marketshare hasn’t changed much year-over-year.
Intel and NVIDIA jointly hold almost all of the notebook market and pre-built desktop market, meaning that AMD’s inroads to the enthusiast space will be obscured by this data.
In Steam’s survey, AMD holds about 18.1% marketshare to Intel’s 81.9% for CPUs, with 56% of users still on quad-core CPUs. Video card usage and marketshare is always awkwardly Counting Intel, Steam shows NVIDIA at 75%, AMD at about 15%, and Intel at about 10%.
DirectX 12 is gaining popularity in a more noteworthy way, progressing from 50% to about 65% marketshare."
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That's some interesting anecdotal information from a massive hardware survey. Anyway.
I do know that my older PC downstairs is among those 56% quad-core -- a Xeon X5470 quad clocked at 3.8 Ghz, paired with 16GB of ddr3 plus RX 580 graphics card with 8GB of video memory.
This PC runs games like Resident Evil 2 remake, PUBG, Blackout, Devil May Cry 5, Destiny 2, Killing Floor 2, No Man's Sky, Anthem, etc. hits 60fps~ at native 1080p using High settings.
Unfortunately due to this game's compiler flag settings, the POPCNT error prevents this PC from even launching Apex Legends.
Several games, including some listed above, also launched with this issue and were later patched with retrocompatibility, allowing the affected users to launch and play the game.
POPCNT is a non-essential instruction to actually launching and loading the game engine.
Any assistance from Respawn Entertainment would be greatly appreciated for users affected by this.
Gamers who are playing current AAA game releases without issue would like to enter and play Apex Legends.
Thank you.
