[bob1029]

> for energy use reduction

This can be a dangerous objective. There are already changes going into Windows 10+ regarding the OS scheduler [0]. Windows 11 is also noted as having an even more aggressive policy. How much longer before old games stop working correctly and we have to have MS-signed binaries to get 1ms timer resolution?

Obviously, we don't want to poll aggressively whenever we can avoid it, but there are also a lot of practical UX & technological reasons to have this capability.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/timeapi/...