[Solved] Help, the timer bar hesitates at points

[texi]

I used the bar timer from the wiki and made some changes so it counts up instead of down and made it so that the player can't skip it. However, at certain points, the bar hesitates to move/fill (it does but pauses a little before continuing). It also does this at the same places every time.

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transform alpha_dissolve:
    alpha 0.0
    linear 0.5 alpha 1.0
    on hide:
        linear 0.5 alpha 0

screen countdown:
    timer 0.01 repeat True action If(time < 3, true=SetVariable('time', time + 0.01), false=[Hide('countdown'), Jump(timer_jump)])
    bar value time range timer_range xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5 xmaximum 300 at alpha_dissolve 

label start:
    scene bg room
 
    label timer_bar:
        $ time = 0
        $ timer_range = 3
        $ timer_jump = 'finished'  
        show screen countdown
        $ renpy.pause(5.5, hard=True)           
        pause              
    label finished:
        "task complete"

[philat]

Likely a performance issue. Performance with timers is discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42048#p440382

There are a couple of solutions in that thread; feel free to improvise.