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Oh my God. This is driving me mad.

Today my laptop (computer one) seems not to be accurate with GetTickCount() either! It worked perfectly yesterday!

Using timeGetTime on computer two solved...

I see.

Thanks a lot for your help! This looks like a community where one should stay! =P

@matsp: I do not need "precise" sleeps, it's just that I found out it wasn't precise while trying to solve my GetTickCount() problem, and was curious to know why. =)

@Elysia: That's weird, because...

Thank you very much. timeGetTime works very well.

What about Sleep()? Is it also not supposed to be accurate?

Sorry to double post, but I did a new test, and seem to have found one of the errors:



#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
while (1)

Computer one (works as expected) is a Pentium 4 (2 GHz), 256MB RAM. It is a laptop.
Computer two (does not works as expected) is a Pentium 4 (3.2 GHz), 1GB RAM. It is not a laptop.

I'm running...

Hello,

while working on some application, I encountered some weird behaviours and started tracking the problem, until I found out what it was. GetTickCount() didn't seem to properly behave. While...