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About a fifth of Steam's 42 million are in a game
Valve counts signed-in clients, not players. Read in the same minute, the in-game share is 23.7%; divide a quiet morning by the daily peak and you get a figure that describes no moment at all.
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How this site works: how a score is built, which games we refuse to score, and the tools behind the testing.
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SCSKiller: the free tool taking on shader compilation stutter
A single-developer open-source Windows app pre-compiles your games' shaders into the driver cache before you play, and Digital Foundry and Hardware Unboxed both put it through real tests within two weeks of each other.
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Why we stopped scoring games out of ten
A ten-point scale packs how badly a game runs and how well it is written into one number. Readers cannot decide from that. Seven dimensions later, the complaints after purchase are more accurate.