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Started by TEUTON April 01, 2006 04:20 AM

10 comments, last by GameDev.net 18 years ago

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April 01, 2006 02:18 PM

Quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
Quote:Original post by Morpheus011
check out GetTickCount()

timeGetTime() == GetTickCount()

No, not really.

John B

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Anonymous

April 01, 2006 02:29 PM

Quote:Original post by JohnBSmall
Quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
Quote:Original post by Morpheus011
check out GetTickCount()

timeGetTime() == GetTickCount()

No, not really.

John B

Yes really.

MSDN:
"timeGetTime" - "This function retrieves the system time, in milliseconds. The system time is the time elapsed since the system started."

"GetTickCount" - "Retrieves the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the system was started."