Re: [GD-Windows] More timer fun!

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

Barstow Jason <JBa...@uk...> wrote:

> Perhaps we could persuade gfx card manufacturers to add a decent high
> precision low latency clock to their cards.
> Could be exposed via D3D API or other.

PC's lack of a way to synchronize to the vertical retrace (despite being
spec'd in EGA or VGA, don't remember) has been in place long enough that I
can't imagine something like you describe. In any case, 3D hardware is not
the place where to look for game logic timing information: the app needs
time information even if it hasn't initialized the rendering engine (think
dedicated servers), or while it's minimized (device lost), etc etc.

  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios