so I was doing a geno run, after a while I saved, I realized that my lives split timer was so far ahead of my save time, I saved at like 48:xx or something like that and my live split timer said like 1:07:xx, the game was lagging a lot, and the live split timer seemed to run at the same speed.

in game time is not accurate and runs arent timed with it. thats not lag it just runs differently than livesplit.

if your game lags alot, 1. idk if the mods can accept, but also, 2. the game checking every frame to increase time would end up making igt seconds slower than real time seconds, or something.

TLDR: igt bad, livesplit time good, lag slow

In-game time is saved to your save file and goes backwards whenever you die or reload. It also doesn't track time spent with the game window closed or the game paused through the console (on newer console versions) or any lag that happened throughout the game.

Runs are timed by the video length from the start of the run to the end of the run so that's the time you should use in your submission. The time on Livesplit isn't technically the same but you can submit that time and mods will correct it during verification if necessary.