The survey obviously isn’t anonymous and it also creates a MAC address hash that would make your machine identifiable to Valve, so if you’re working at the NSA and you don’t want the company to know you’re goofing off playing CS:GO on the tax payers dime, then maybe don’t take it. It also asks some pretty old-school questions of your PC, such as whether it has a DVD drive, what the sound card is, and free space on the hard drive. It also records your operating system and version, support for NTFS, driver and graphics card details, the number of GPUs in your system, and which bus the GPU is plugged into, as well the number of monitors connected to your system along with their refresh rate and color depth. Use Steam keys to sell your game at retail, run discounts and bundle offers, or run betas. Get your game to customers any way you can imagine. The survey includes details of the manufacturer, model, form factor (laptop or desktop), CPU vendor and brand, amount of RAM, the number of logical and physical CPU cores, and a fairly detailed accounting of features the CPU supports (such as SSE levels, AES, and AVX levels). Use Steams DRM (Digital Rights Management) tools to reduce piracy of your game, implement your own, or leave it out. Note: Single key shortcuts will only work when Typing keyboard to piano (Ctrl + T) is OFF. We took the Steam Hardware Survey on a few PCs to take notes about the information it gathers. A: In order to have multiple windows with different layouts. What does the Steam Hardware Survey send?