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TIMER RESOLUTION

TimerResolution is an application to change the resolution of the default
windows timer. The standard timer on Windows XP can vary between 10 and 25
milliseconds. Therefore if your code uses a timer or sleep value less than the
timer resolution on your system you won’t be getting the results you expect.
The timer resolution will be globally changed while the application is running
and will revert to the previous value when it is closed.

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[Buy and Download] Timer Resolution V2

HOW DID THIS APPLICATION GET CREATED?

I had a need for a program to run every 5 milliseconds but I found that no
matter what I did the best I could get was 12ms. I tried different values for my
timer and found that a value above 12ms would also produce results with jitter
up to 12ms. What was so special about 12ms? I tried a different computer and
found that the magic value was 15ms… what was windows doing? Time to Google the
answer.

I left the program running to see if the value changed with time or CPU load.
Suddenly the program started to produce 5ms results with very little jitter! By
trial and error I found that if I loaded a particular web page the program
worked as expected. What was so special about this page? It turns out that it
had a Flash based advertisement on it so I had my next clue. As a guess I closed
the web page and started Media Player and got the same result. It seems that
when an application requests a high resolution timer for multimedia purposes it
changes the resolution of the timer for the entire system.

So now I had a solution but it required linking to the winmm.lib which as a
programmer didn’t sit well with me since my application had nothing to do with
multimedia. A little more research and I was onto the undocumented native API.
Now I had the lightweight solution I was looking for. I hope you find that the
program answers some questions for you. I’ve found that it can improve the
performance and responsiveness of all sorts of applications.

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Nokia uses TimerResolution for LTE Network Tuning

Useful Links on the Windows Timers
MSDN – Windows Multimedia SDK Obtaining and Setting Timer Resolution
The Code Project – Timers tutorial – System

Note: This page was located at http://users.tpg.com.au/lucash/ until October
2007 when it moved to its new home here

[Buy and Download] Timer Resolution V2 Version 2.0 for Windows 7 and Windows 10

[Download] TimerResolution.zip Version 1.2 for XP, Vista. and Windows 7

https://www.dbltap.com/posts/timer-resolution-fornite-how-to-change-it-and-does-it-work-01e29587p5yq
https://www.reddit.com/r/FortniteCompetitive/comments/fdcdaf/thoughts_on_timer_resolution/
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=46531
http://www.shoot-em.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3981 [now a spam site 🙁 ]
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=332395#2
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=327922
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1315790
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3812261#post3812261
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3770113#post3770113
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1273328-performance-tweaks-6.html#post18878023
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1273328-performance-tweaks.html
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=19491040#post19491040
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/windows-timer-resolution-megawatts-wasted/

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