[AccessD] Sysinternals and Timer Resolution.

[Stuart McLachlan]

Trying to find out why I was runing at 1ms, I did a bit of seraching and came across this 
handy hint, (especially useful for laptops):

Open a Cmd windows as Administrator and run "powercfg -energy duration 5"

It gives a comprehensive report of what settings and applications are "energy hogs"  and let 
me identify the one background application that was increasing the timer frequency 
(resulting in  more power used).




On 4 Oct 2022 at 8:20, Stuart McLachlan wrote:

> On 27 Sep 2022 at 12:20, Gustav Brock via AccessD wrote:
> 
> > Hi Arthur
> > 
> > Use Timer, much simpler. 
> > It returns seconds ......with about 1/18 s resolution
> > and two decimals:
> > 
> 
> I thought of this thread when I looked again  at the SysInternals
> utilities and noticed ClockRes  :)
> 
> So I downloaded it.  I couldn't get it to tell me anything intially,
> then I realised it is a command line utility.
> 
> Here's my results. Note the 0.500 ms :)
> 
> C:\Users\smcl\Desktop>clockres64
> 
> Clockres v2.1 - Clock resolution display utility
> Copyright (C) 2016 Mark Russinovich
> Sysinternals
> 
> Maximum timer interval: 15.625 ms
> Minimum timer interval: 0.500 ms
> Current timer interval: 0.999 ms
> 
> 
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