std::high_resolution_timer messed up when running non-steam game with steam

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2255 · opened 2013-04-01 by chipgw · updated 2013-08-16 · 6 comments · github

Cchipgw 2013-04-01 github

when a game that uses C++11 high_resolution_timer is launched with steam, high_resolution timer returns milliseconds but still says it is returning microseconds. (what it returns normally) consequently the game thinks time is running at 1/1000 the speed and anything time related goes really really slow. problem doesn't occur with a 64bit build of the game, but then the overlay doesn't work either, so it is probably related to that. (when the 64bit overlay is complete I will test it as well)

system info:
distro: Arch 64bit (fully up to date)
glibc, stdc++, etc. latest available from Arch repositories (not Testing)
CPU: i7 870 @ 2.93GHz
GPU: Zotac GTX 570 (with proprietary drivers)

TTele42 2013-04-01 github

What specific game are you referring to?

Cchipgw 2013-04-01 github

@Tele42 the game is of my own creation, but a basic test program has the same problem so the problem isn't in my game.

basic test:

#include <chrono>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
using namespace std::chrono;

int main(){
    high_resolution_clock::time_point time = high_resolution_clock::now();

    usleep(100000);

    cout << duration_cast<microseconds>(high_resolution_clock::now() - time).count() * 0.001f;

    return 0;
}

when run normally it says 100.XXX, when run with steam it says 0.1

Cchipgw 2013-04-01 github

I did some digging around and found that the problem is with (Steam Root)/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16 if the program loads that it has the problem. so then what?

EDIT: it seems to be working now, might it be related to gcc updating to 4.8.0 (system libstdc++ is now 6.0.18) or did you guys do something?

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-08-16 github

Is this issue still active?

Cchipgw 2013-08-16 github

I guess not...

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-08-16 github

Thanks, closing.

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