What Is Timer Resolution?

TimerResolution is an application to change the resolution of the default windows timer. The standard timer on Windows XP can vary between 10 and 25 milliseconds. Therefore if your code uses a timer or sleep value less than the timer resolution on your system you won't be getting the results you expect.

What is default timer resolution?

The default system-wide timer resolution in Windows is 15.6 ms, which means that every 15.6 ms the operating system receives a clock interrupt from the system timer hardware. When the clock interrupt fires, Windows updates the timer tick count and checks whether a scheduled timer object has expired.

Does timer resolution reduce input lag?

The timer resolution method

Your Windows operating system has a default input lag of 15 milliseconds. ... Fortnite can reduce this input lag to a single millisecond by itself, but it's possible to lower it even further.