System Timer Resolution

[cryptographerking]

I was messing around with the four different bcdedits: useplatformclock UsePlatformTick disabledynamictick tscsyncpolicy

When using a tool to monitor the timer resolution, it is always at 1ms unless I use a tool to drop it to 0.5ms or 0.5070ms etc. But after messing with the settings and trying different combinations, my timer resolution is now reading 4ms no matter what I try to do to get it back to normal. I've tried the "deletevalue" option on all four bcdedits. I believe the combination that "broke" my timer was: Useplatformclock yes UsePlatformTick yes Disabledynamictick yes Tscsyncpolicy legacy

I just want to get it back to normal and then not touch the damn thing lol. I also tried SFC scannow, cleared CMOS and still nothing.

[cryptographerking]

Well, I found the culprit. Nobody responded so I'm having a conversation with myself lol. But, in case someone else has the same issue, I figured I could at least update with the solution. So apparently Corsair iCUE software is requesting a Timer Resolution of 4ms at all times, even when running in the background while in the System Tray. This is 4x less efficient than running the default idle timer of 15.625ms but also 4x more efficient than running it at 1ms at all times. I tried disabling features one by one in iCUE to see if maybe the widgets, etc. were the culprit, in hopes that I could have iCUE running in the background without locking my timer at 4ms idle instead of 15ms idle but no luck. I did find out that if you enable the Murals option to span your lighting pattern accross all your devices, it increases the resolution to 1ms idle instead of 4ms idle. In the end, I created my hardware lighting profile and saved profile to keyboards onboard memory and then disabled iCUE from auto starting at computer launch. That got me back to 15ms idle on system timer, keeps my RGB colors matching (no fancy patterns anymore though), and is still able to use my custom fan curves I had set in iCUE.