I believe this is still useful: System Internals: Guidelines For Providing Multimedia Timer Support. It does a good job of explaining the various timers available and their limitations. It might be that your archenemy will not so much be resolution, but latency. QueryPerformanceCounter will not always run at CPU speed. In fact, it might try … Read more
Try this article from MSDN Magazine. It’s actually quite complicated. Implement a Continuously Updating, High-Resolution Time Provider for Windows (archive link)
Check out clock_gettime, which is a POSIX interface to high-resolution timers. If, having read the manpage, you’re left wondering about the difference between CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, see Difference between CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC? See the following page for a complete example: http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2007/09/22/profiling-code-using-clock_gettime/ #include <iostream> #include <time.h> using namespace std; timespec diff(timespec start, timespec end); int main() … Read more
There is nothing built into the .NET framework that I am aware of. Windows has a mechanism for high resolution timer events via the Multimedia Timer API. Below is a quick example I whipped up which seems to do the job. There are also seems to be a good example here. I will note that … Read more