I don't want to inadvertently hijack this thread with HPET as Chief has already stated that it deserves its own. Nevertheless, I've found that it is absolutely relevant to a stutter-free 8kHz mouse experience, and so I mentioned my results.lyrill wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 00:04about HPET disabling, I guess the question people want to ask is : is it gonna break my computer if I try it (briefly or extended period) ? and HOW do I know that it actually helps? just by looking at more frames? DO i need to tinker with it if I don't have issues/stutters?
That is without going back to re-read all previously mentioned about HPET. If the answer was already provided do remind me my ignorance because I preach to people to read this thread all the time yet I myself still haven't completely gone through it all again to recollect everything
There are many ways to quantitatively prove the overall performance differences, and many test/benchmark results (FPS / latency) are available on the internet.
Some old, quick Far Cry 5 benchmarks on a 8700k + 1080 Ti:
useplatformclock yes (using HPET):
useplatformclock deleted (not using HPET):