Hi, all. I''m trying to write a music-based game, and as such, timing needs to be pretty accurate. Ideally, I want to call a function every 100ms, but I don''t want to be late or early about it (this may or may not end up driving the sound engine). Right now, I''ve got the windows message loop, GL loop, and timer loop running as 3 separate threads, and the GL loop and timer loop are constantly fighting over the CPU, so that''s bad. If I replace the busy-waiting in my timer loop with Sleep() statements, the thread always ends up sleeping a little too long (and if I shorten it, it''s back to busy-waiting), so that''s bad. 1)What''s the best way to get this to work? or... 2)Since I can throw a lot of the logic into the GL loop and into the input event handlers, my only real *need* for this is sound. Is there a better way? Thanks, Devin

Well, I was originally looking at something that might be portable, but I''m probably going to use BASS for music, so Win32 . It has beat notification as well, so I''ll look into that.

Is there a way to make another thread sleep (without having to intersperse it with if(toldtosleep)Sleep() statements, or the like)?

yeah, what i didn''t want to do was use some synchronous blocking method like mutexes, so SuspendThread sounds perfect. (this way, when/if beat information needs to get processed, I can get it done w/o having to fight with the graphics engine, which can wait a few milliseconds.) thanks.