This is higher than I expected. It suggests to me a high % of hardcore players, but maybe multiple monitors are more common than I realize.

 That pretty much nails my system. 

I will go SLI next year and get two monitors. I made a post about 4K monitors and Frogboy chimed in and said to wait till they show up with Display port 1.3. I have yet to see any but the refresh rate would be like 120hz. I dont know if current video cards or GCIII can support it but I am willing to invest in one (a 4k Monitor) when the eventually come out. 

dual monitors for me

Is there any source that can provide stats on usage of >60Hz monitors/GSync/Adaptive Sync? I know they're still very uncommon, but they make a big difference and they're being pushed by a lot of monitor makers.  It's a pity that the Steam, Unity, and now GalCiv III hardware surveys don't have any information on it.

I wish he broke out the % above 16GB

its not that surprising.  fuel monitor outputs (vga/dvi with an hdmi especially)has been ridiculously common for Years now & it's not uncommon to see lcds go for <50$. Regardless of if it's an impulse buy replacement, extra, or upgrade for a several year old one... Multiple monitors just is not as big of a deal as it was 10-15 Years ago when only the most obsessive flightsim fans had them to go with their military surplus joystick, throttle, & pedals.

I had dual monitors 10-15 years ago too, it's hard to get anything done with just one.   I had this sweet 1600x1200 native resolution NEC for a primary, it was beautiful, and 80 pounds.  People that don't have them just haven't learned yet, it would be impossible for me to function efficiently on a single display even if I were just using my system to play around and didn't make a living on it.  If I ever get around to setting up my shelving so I can get rid of this damned printer, I'll be running three 27 inch displays and using every bit of them when I'm working.

I have a laptop that I use (when at home) with an external monitor.  When using the external monitor, I don't use the laptop screen, because of the constraints of my desk setup.

Out of curiosity, am I being counted as having multiple monitors in these stats?

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I had dual monitors 10-15 years ago too, it's hard to get anything done with just one.   I had this sweet 1600x1200 native resolution NEC for a primary, it was beautiful, and 80 pounds.  People that don't have them just haven't learned yet, it would be impossible for me to function efficiently on a single display even if I were just using my system to play around and didn't make a living on it.  If I ever get around to setting up my shelving so I can get rid of this damned printer, I'll be running three 27 inch displays and using every bit of them when I'm working.

Yea, there were people  who  did back then but it was more extreme due to size/cost/etc and support was not as good. I have two monitors at home (like a 15-17ish & 19-21ish) and 4 26 inch at work

I'd love to see galciv3 do something like showing planet/shipyard/diplo/etc screens with the main monitor keeping on the galaxy scape interface as a quick (?) multi monitor interface enhancrment.  If the optional split allows for serious improvements beyond that once it's  broken in, great.. but that small step would be huge

The dual monitors setup comes quite naturally. Most computers people buy today tend to be laptops. Using just the laptop screen gives a miserable game-experience and because about all modern televisions have HDMI inputs as standard the natural solution is to hook up your laptop to your high-def TV to get a big screen for enjoying the games. This frees up your laptop screen so why not use it as a second screen? Presto, you have a dual monitor setup.

The OS stats are absolutely irrelevant.

For example, I am a heavy linux and FreeBSD user (I do my work on Linux and FreeBSD), but I dual-boot to Windows for gaming. So any gaming survey will see me as a Windows user, which is not true, the games that exist for Linux and are performing adequately, I will play under Linux. 

Not really a surprise seeing relatively high ram systems, etc. Pc s today are not half as expensive to build or put together as some seem to think. In fact it`s easy and cheaper for a person of modest means to build a decent gaming rig way more powerful than any say, console and able to do lots of other things than just gaming. My pc is not only a gaming rig but also a work rig.

Good question.

I have one, so... that's 1 person... <crickets>