Today I was downloading the Apollo 11 free stuff that Unreal hosted in the marketplace and it took like an hour for it to download and then compile shaders so I feel asleep…
Three hours later I woke up, then I saw the clock on my Windows 10 and felt that it should be later than it was and I checked and it was slower by more than an hour. The real time was past 10PM but the system time was saying it was 8:39 PM or something…
I’ve never had a time drift of this magnitude before and I’m running latest Windows 10, no virus, no other issues with my PC, and never had a time drift of more than a few seconds to a minute at most. I didn’t turn off the WIndows TIme server or time broker etc…
After I updated my clock to be the real accurate time again, I checked the system events log to see if any program or whatever make a change to the time and found nothing. I was able to narrow down when the time changed because I took a bandicam video capture of my entire system for another reason just prior to falling asleep and then immediately uploaded it online, where that online system would alway put the accurate timestamp on it based on its server time, so I cross ref the two times and confirmed that before I feel asleep the PC time was still okay and accurate…
So in the span of three hours it slowed down by more than an hour… and it wasn’t anything that changed the system time and nothing slowed up on the logs.
And it must have been a steady gradual time slow down /time shift because I’m browsing through my security logs and seeing the time stamp for each event and don’t see any major obvious time jumps happening so whatever it was it must have been a gradual drift…
Could Unreal Engine be causing my clock to slow down whenever it is doing heavy processing?