Game timers running too fast work around.
843798Jul 20 2009 — edited Jul 21 2009Yesterday I started experiencing my system clock running way too fast. At first I thought it was my CMOS battery going on the fritz. But installed a new one, still have same problem.
After doing some searching I ran across this fix on Pogo's Help area.
And I found the same quoted fix on several blogs and tech support forums.
This is the fix I found:
"We've recently discovered that Sun has posted a work-around to an issue
with Java that incidentally causes some timers to run too fast. You need to
change the runtime parameter in the Sun Java Plug-in."
They are referring to Pogo's game timers but I found that it corrected my pc
clock and it no longer runs fast. It would gain up to 20-30 mins while playing
timed Pogo Games (non timed games didn't cause an issue). The time would correct
only if I re started Windows.
Now some of the games that seemed to time out really fast, are running slower
which is actually the speed it should have been. I guess I got used to it being
too fast all the time.
(Begin Fix)
Steps:
Start
Control Panel
Java icon
Java Tab
In the first area titled "Java Applet Runtime Settings" which should be the top one,
click on View.
Click on the far right under: Java Runtime Parameters section, type in
-XX:+ForceTimeHighResolution
Click OK
Click Ok
I then rebooted and now the clock keeps the correct time while playing Timed Pogo Games
(End of Fix)
Having recently installed a new C:\Drive and did a clean install of Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3.
I downloaded and installed the latest Java Jre ver 1.6.0_14.
I am still experiencing the same fast clock problem even after I tried this fix.
I have played on Pogo and used Java JRE for years and never experienced this problem.
My questions are:
Should I roll back to a eariler version of the java jre?
Is this the correct fix for the timing issue with games that are timed?
Can someone direct me to the original Sun posting about this fix (work around)?
Thank You for any assistance in this problem.
Edited by: DEWy49r on Jul 20, 2009 9:20 AM