RE: [GD-Windows] More timer fun!

[Philip T. <pt...@wi...>]

Actually, recent Intel mobos ( ICH3 chipsets iirc, see
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=3D10473,00.asp ) do =
have
updated timer hw, and MS will support it in some future OS product I am
not supposed to mention.=20

Intel has info at ftp://download.intel.com/ial/home/sp/mmts097.pdf

Some of the reasons behind the creation of the new timer, as well as
some of our plans for its use have already been posted in the doc
Guidelines for Providing Multimedia Support on
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/proc/mm-timer.asp

I believe this was also discussed at the recent WinHEC.

Note, AMD will support this in future mobos as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Barstow Jason [mailto:JBa...@uk...]=20
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:12 AM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] More timer fun!=20


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.

Seeing as we're specifically interested in a solution for gaming and
most of us now presume gfx hardware, this seems like a reasonable
solution.

Would take a while to come through but then how long has this problem
existed already (and with no signs of a practical solution) ?

Jason


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