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From: sramsay@smart.net (Scott Ramsay)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Any high-res counters?
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 19:15:59 GMT
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Does the Playstation contain any high-res counters/timers that
programs can access?

The API functions StartRCnt(), GetRCnt() and ResetRCnt() look like
some sort of access counter that I can use.  These functions pass in a
"root counter specification" argument?  What is that value and what do
these functions actually do?  

The manuals were not very helpful.  :-(

The only other way I see getting an acurate counter is setting up a
callback function using VSyncCallback.  But I'd like one that would be
faster than the vertical retrace.

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  Scot Ramsay
  sramsay@smart.net