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Subject: Re: Strange timing problem wit performance counter (for Windows experts?)

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 21:21:30 11/09/04

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On November 07, 2004 at 15:56:28, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>One user of my engine reported regular forfeits on time. It turned out, that on
>his computer my timing code does not work well. The QueryPerformanceCounter
>function just seems to return wrong results, while GetTickCount works as
>expected. In Yace, I use the former function if available, and the later only as
>fallback. I actually forgot why, but I think it had some reason once :-)
>
>Can anybody explain, why QueryPerformanceCounter returns wrong results. The

Don't know how to explain that, sorry.  But you might look into using the
GetThreadTimes() or GetProcessTimes() API functions for Windows.

• Re: Strange timing problem wit performance counter (for Windows experts?) Jeremiah Penery 21:28:42 11/09/04

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