Re: [GD-Windows] More timer fun!

[Javier A. <ja...@py...>]

Jon Watte <hp...@mi...> wrote:

> Note that two computers that are not hooked up to the same physical
> crystal are doomed to skew out of sync sooner or later. The


True there will be _some_ difference, but I certainly don't expect that to
be in the order of seconds per hour (seconds per month is reasonable).

> description I saw from Tom sounds to me as if there was no attempt to
> bring the clocks back in sync over the network. If you don't do that,
> you will lose, always. Just like a digital mixing studio (or video
> production studio) Just Won't Work (tm) without a common house clock.

Could you share some insight as to doing this with some reliability? In most
cases, a 1-second drift will be noticed as a 1-second lag, so that's the
kind of precision we're shooting for when we attempt to sync the machines'
time.Without some common ground amoung these two machines, I have no clue
how to sync them with that level of precision. The most I could do is, if
the game host's clock runs faster, have clients detect an overflow of
packets and adapt to that, but if it runs slower?!?

  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios