Is Timer elapsed time consistency depends on resources?

[margie]

On a small project (10 sprites static) i use one scene timer. When monitor the elapsed time i got consistent seconds passed…
But after adding one more sprite (just an image without events, but with an effect = Drop Shadow with Quality=20) the timer goes slower… and when monitor the elapsed time i got inconsistent (lower than real) seconds…

1. when add one more instance of the above sprite the timer gets even slower…
2. when change the Quality=1 of the Drop Shadow effect, the timer gets NORMAL!

Any explanation?

[margie]

found that for a solution:

[Solved] Accurate time tracking [solution: use Time("timestamp")]

I’m trying to measure the time taken by my code. In order to do it I’m using a text element which displays a timer. Since timers are affected by processor speed, and since the code I’m testing is very slow, the timer says 1.6s when the actual time passed is 5s. How can I fix it? maybe there’s an internal feature I’m missing? maybe by accessing the device’s clock? I’m aware there are tools like the debugger and the profiler, but I have to measure the performances on multiple devices. (I can’t…