timer hickups

[nsh22]

ok, sometimes when i am playing, i get random timer hickups (around 16 seconds on average).
what does this mean and how/can I fix it?

[AI Teâm]

I get this sometimes as well.
If im right it also says sometimes about my clock jumping or staying at the same time for some seconds , not sure.
But I think it is just simple lag?

[Z-Man]

You mean, timer hickups every 16 seconds or timer hickups of the size 16 seconds? Either way, they're caused by your system clock jumping around. There's two known causes: a) AMD Multicore CPUs timer differs from CPU to CPU, upgrading Arma to a 0.2.8.3_beta works around that, and b) your realtime clock getting adjusted by the system from internet queries.

[compguygene]

Thanks for the explanation, Z-man. I have been getting that on my AMD multi-core system. But, only on that computer.

[nsh22]

You mean, timer hickups every 16 seconds or timer hickups of the size 16 seconds? Either way, they're caused by your system clock jumping around. There's two known causes: a) AMD Multicore CPUs timer differs from CPU to CPU, upgrading Arma to a 0.2.8.3_beta works around that, and b) your realtime clock getting adjusted by the system from internet queries.

the size was 16 seconds, and it happened when i used the beta...

[Z-Man]

Well, then it's b, and we really can't do much about it. There's no measurable difference between a clock adjustment and a really bad performance problem hitting one frame only (say, the user opening 20 browser tabs at once). The only thing arma can do is warn you, and it does that.