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I just wanted to report here as I have an opposite results 
I tried with HPET OFF/ON and HPET ON without forcing Windows OS to use it
I have the best results when when having HPET ON in BIOS but without forcing it on Windows OS
Here is the screenshots
https://imgur.com/a/CVy4zXr
Hello,
I don't see anything unusual in the first two screenshots. They show without any doubt that Skylake is horrible with HPET on and you should disable it on your system.
The interesting screenshot is your third one! I have never seen a 10 MHz timer ever. The result is clearly from TSC, but this seems to be a very strange Windows bug with a totally wrong calculated startup frequency. I already have a workaround for this and will upload an updated version soon.
Zitat aus einem Post von matHello,
I don't see anything unusual in the first two screenshots. They show without any doubt that Skylake is horrible with HPET on and you should disable it on your system.
The interesting screenshot is your third one! I have never seen a 10 MHz timer ever. The result is clearly from TSC, but this seems to be a very strange Windows bug with a totally wrong calculated startup frequency. I already have a workaround for this and will upload an updated version soon.
I will disable it now 
))Zitat aus einem Post von matThe interesting screenshot is your third one! I have never seen a 10 MHz timer ever. The result is clearly from TSC, but this seems to be a very strange Windows bug with a totally wrong calculated startup frequency. I already have a workaround for this and will upload an updated version soon.
Thanks for the information, I will look into it!Zitat aus einem Post von Majestic12That 10 Mhz bug appeared on the newest Windows 10 update (1809).
Hallo an alle! Ich habe vor ein paar Tagen diese großartige Community gefunden, und ich bin daran interessiert, Teil der Community zu sein. In Bezug auf die Windows-Zeitgeber bei der Aktivierung oder nicht bei HPET ist mir aufgefallen, dass das Thema Nachgeben der FPS einen hohen Stellenwert hat, aber es gibt nur wenige Tests Was ist mit Framerate? Entschuldigung für mein Deutsch als Google-Übersetzer.
TimerBench will not run for me.
It says "The following component(s) are required to run this program: DirectX Runtime".
I have a default Windows 10 Home installation which purportedly already has DirectX.
Mike
Found the solution was to install this
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dow...tion.aspx?id=35
Mike
TimerBench uses DirectX 11 for its "game test", so that's a requirement. As you noted, not every Windows version comes with DX11 preinstalled. Thx for your post, I will add it to the article.
The scores from the benchmarks are generally really good, but the maximum frame time seems to be too high. I've tested multiple systems and I've seen max frame times up to 18-19 ms on my "beefiest" system and down to 8-9 ms on lower end system with worse benchmark scores. I don't know alot about this and that's why I'm asking you to maybe help with some input
Under QPC mode it states unknown, I've seen this on alot of other tests from users, what causes this as the normal is invariant TSC? It's seems like however I treat the OC and stuff it does not make a change towards max frame time, is it only the GPU that matters for this?
I9 9900k @ 5.2 GHz
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI APEX
16 GB G.SKILL 4266 MHz
GeForce GTX 2080 Ti
NZXT x62 280mm water cooling
"Unknown" means that you have the latest version of Windows which reports a QPC frequency of 10 MHz. This will still always be the "Invariant TSC", TimerBench just doesn't understand it yet.
As for the frame times, I wouldn't count to much on them, especially if they are that low. I've added them to show a possible bottleneck of the CPU due to a slow timer configuration. If that happens you would've seen max frame times of hundreds of milliseconds and a stuttering every other second during the game bench.
That said, TimerBench only has a single function: To show if your QPC timer configuration is not holding your CPU and graphics card back. If you switch to HPET as QPC mode, you would see much higher frame times, which concludes that iTSC is the fastest possible setting on your system (and Coffee Lake in general). So you're good.
Thank you for reply. Do you know of any direct ways to maybe decrease the max frame time anyways?
Since the max frame time is some what consistent every test there needs to be something that determines.. the max frame time 
There is nothing specific that helps to achieve lower frame times. But whatever helps in any game, should help here. Overclocking of GPU, CPU and memory. Slicker Windows with less in the background and so on.
Hi again mat.
Another question. Have you ever tried to see the difference in performance after the change of QPC in 1809+ windows updates?
On 1809+ QueryPerformanceFrequency() returns 10mhz (10ms) which is causing the GUI et al to have latency. DPC latency is also elevated post 1809 installation. This happens on multiple, different motherboards (AMD, Intel) as well as various configurations.
1709 and previous versions are true TSC between 2-4mhz (give or take) depending on the CPU speed.
Do you think this can have impact?
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