ok, i've been trying to think of a way for my program to run at the same speed on any computer, because of its long delays (ex: for loops) i was thinking of using a counter at the begining of the program to see how fast it is. what i figured was to run a while loop and count the amount of times it could run a small equatioin [x++] in 1 minute and then calibrate the program from there. unfortunitly, time.h is a ... yea and i can't figure out how to get the time from the computer. if someone could just tell me that it'd be very very helpful... latez