Evidence on e-prime timing accuracy compared to other similar software?

[David McFarlane]

Two thoughts:

1) For an absolute measure of timing accuracy (as opposed to 
comparisons with alternatives), PST addressed this in Chapter 3 of 
the User's Guide that came with E-Prime, which I *insist* that anyone 
who cares about critical timing read.

2) Awhile back I found a published review comparing E-Prime with some 
alternatives, unfortunately I cannot find it in all the stacks on my 
desk at the moment.  But the upshot was that all the best task 
software for Windows (including E-Prime) rely on Microsoft's DirectX 
technology, and all provide similar timing accuracy.

But please don't take my word for this, keep looking, and maybe I 
will post a link to the review when I find it.  In the meantime, you 
might try Google searches with terms including E-Prime, DirectRT, 
Inquisit (by Millisecond), DirectX, etc.  And then please let us know 
what you find.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>I realise I risk annoying people here, as I imagine this has been
>addressed here and  elsewhere. But with an admittedly quite cursory
>look so far (here, journal databases, pst's web site), I haven't found
>any objective tests of e-prime against other similar packages. I'll go
>on looking, but if anyone knows of anything that could save me a major
>hunt, I'd appreciate it.
>
>I'm well aware of the complexities involved (and the vagueness of the
>question), and that hardware and OS issues are at least as significant
>as the software. I've read the user and reference guides, thinned
>Windows down, run the Refresh Clock tests, etc.
>
>(background: I have an e-prime experiment that's nearly ready to run,
>but there's some suggestion that I should redevelop it in
>Presentation, because of what seem to me like some folklorish
>impressions at large about e-prime's relative timing unreliability).


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