RE: [GD-Windows] More timer fun!

[Grills, J. <jg...@so...>]

We could never rely on users having such a thing, unless it was cheap enough
to put in the box with our games.  Even then, I'm not sure we could trust
them to install it correctly, even assuming they have an open USB slot.

I think the better question is, why can't a $500 (or even $3000) PC keep
decent time?  It's just silly.  QPT jumping by several seconds over 1/20th
of a second is simply absurd.  Given the hardware issues that are present,
and that we can apparently fix this within our games with enough work,
Microsoft should integrate fixes for this into their current and past OS's.
They need to give us a way to determine if it's installed, allow us to
redistribute the fixes, and then at our game install time we can prompt the
user to install them as necessary.

j

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich [mailto:leg...@xm...]
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 1:02 PM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] More timer fun! 



In article <F9CD80F99127D211BA2B00A0C9D855CDDF98FF@LORDANDMASTER>,
    Tom Forsyth <to...@mu...>  writes:

> Curse those hardware designers!

Why doesn't someone sell a $5 USB dongle that has decent time? :)
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