RE: [GD-Windows] More timer fun!

[David N. <dno...@mi...>]

request it. request it. bug microsoft. I bunch of times stuff doesn't
get into schedule because there's no 'demand'. I know from internal
lists that the game studios have gone through the same headaches with
the time functions, so it's actually everybody suffering this problem.
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Bashing in third party lists wont have any effect.
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David

PD: I apologize for the previous non ASCII email. Outlook web doesn't
support it :(



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grills, Jeff [mailto:jg...@so...]
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 11:20 AM
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] More timer fun!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> j
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> -----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!
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> In article <F9CD80F99127D211BA2B00A0C9D855CDDF98FF@LORDANDMASTER>,
>     Tom Forsyth <to...@mu...>  writes:
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> > Curse those hardware designers!
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> Why doesn't someone sell a $5 USB dongle that has decent time? :)
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