Forcing 0.5 ms global timer resolution
Also searched as: timer resolution · 0.5ms timer · timerresolution.exe
What it does
Forces Windows' interrupt timer to its finest interval system-wide.
The honest verdict
Inconsistent: a minority of systems measure slightly better lows, some measure worse, most see nothing — at higher idle power. If you must, change it alone, measure, and revert unless clearly better.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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