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I'm having trouble with getting my monitors to allow the refresh rate I'm looking for. I'm using a GTX4070 using DisplayPort running to my two GIGABYTE M27Q monitors. By my understanding I shouldn't be capped at 60hz refresh rate but yet those seem to be my only options in NVIDIA and Windows settings. I have made sure HDR settings are all off which seems to be a common issue, The only way I've been able to force a higher refresh rate is via the screenshot I attached. Does anybody have any recommendations or information to help me out? Thanks in advance. pc specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X win 10 pro 64bit Asus ROG Strix B550-F Nvidia RTX4070 corsair RM750e Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 16gig

I made an account here, hopefully you can help me more than reddit did. (Card / PC is able to hit the refresh rates of both on almost every single scenario, so don't worry about that) What do you prefer? -Game Rendered at 4K but later downscaled to a 1080p Screen at 75hz -Game Rendered at 4K but later downscaled to a 1440p Screen at 60hz Basically comes down to the whole "Resolution vs Framerate" debate. 144 hz sadly it is not an option, I do not have a 144 hz screen, these are separate monitors, of which run at the speeds / hz mentioned before.

Hello. Oh boy this is complicated. I have a very curious issue concerning my refresh rate on my monitor (Gigabyte G24F). I have had this problem for more than 3 months. First of all, there was a time where I could run 165 Hz in any game without a problem. However recently, in some games, I can't get it to max out. It fluctuates between 90 and 100 Hz (I can see these numbers when I open the user interface of my monitor). I mostly play Valorant and in that game, I have this issues whenever I played on 1080 p with 16:9 as the aspect ratio. If I set the aspect ratio to 4:3, I get crisp 165 Hz. A couple of days ago, this temporary fix did not seem to work anymore. After some experimenting, it only worked if I capped my FPS to exactly 165. Kind of. With frames capped to 165, I do get 165 Hz, yet sometimes, for example the moment I get shot in game, I get stutters and my refresh rate drops for like a second or two, then goes back up again to 165 Hz. This performance drop only occurs on 1080p 16:9, on 4:3 with a lower resolution and frames capped at 165 I don't seem to get these drops. But, there has been a time where I could play with uncapped FPS without any issues (if I uncap, I get around 600 FPS in practice range, in a match around 350) and it would be great if I could get it back to that state. Also in CS2, I don't seem to get it to max refresh rate no matter which resolution or aspect ratio I choose. However, my monitor displays 165 Hz in the user interface (but I can tell it's not, just way too stuttery). I would love for this issue to simply be gone so I can play on 165 Hz on 1080p 16:9 again, no matter if my FPS is capped to 165. I basically have no clue at all what the problem might be. I have tried everything I know, but nothing seemed to do the trick. And it's not like I can't get my monitor to 165 Hz, it just does not get there when I want it to. I have over the course of multiple weeks talked to Valorant Support where they checked every single game setting within Valorant and we did a clean reinstall, so it should not be the Valorant ingame settings causing the drops in performance. And as I said it happens sometimes in other games, too. Not so much as in Valorant though. I have updated all my drivers (GPU and monitor drivers, windows is up to date and in the windows settings it is without a doubt set to 165 Hz. I have experimented with different Displayport cables, but that did not change anything. I am running on Windows 11 (64-Bit). I have also factory reset my monitor, I deleted the AMD Adrenalin Software (I saw some people having performance issues caused by it). I disabled my firewall to see if that interferes with that in any way. I tried disabling AMD Freesync Premium, with that my monitor showed 165 Hz in the interface, but it was not smooth at all, it more looked like 60Hz. So I re enabled it. The last thing I tried was hooking up my monitor with my laptop, to see wether it is my pc. On my laptop I only have HMDI, so I only got 120 Hz max. However, on my laptop, I got consistent 120 Hz. I could not confirm that with my eyes since my laptop could only get up to like 40 frames per second, but this would maybe indicate, that this whole thing only seems to occur on my pc. I have a feeling it's some weird setting, but I am honestly helpless. Here is my pc build: -SSD: 1000GB Crucial P2 M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (CT1000P2SSD8) -power: 750 Watt be quiet! Pure Power 11 FM Modular 80+ Gold -CPU-cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 Tower Kühler -Motherboard: MSI B550M Bazooka AMD B550 So.AM4 Dual Channel DDR4 ATX Retail -GPU: MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT Mech 2X 8G, 8GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP (V502-035R) -CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - 3.7 GHz - 6 cores - 12 Threads -RAM: Crucial Ballistix BL2K8G36C16U4B 3600 MHz, DDR4, DRAM, Desktop Gaming Speicher Kit, 16GB (8GB x2), CL16, Schwarz -monitor: Gigabyte G24f 165 hz This would be unbelievable if some heckin tech god could find the problem and fix this for me as I am absolutely lost from this point on. There is nothing more I can do. Thanks in advance and I am looking forward to hearing from your ideas. I will be happy to provide you guys with any further details you might need. Greetings, David

I recently changed the display on my laptop after the old one broke. I put in this exact panel instead of the 1080p 144Hz panel I had before. However, before and after updating GPU drivers (both intel and Nvidia) I don't have the option to choose another resolution. The Nvidia control panel is also missing every single option apart from the 3D settings. I've also checked the Intel Graphics control panel and it too is devoid of any meaningful options. My laptop has an RTX2070 MaxQ and Intel UHD 630. I've already tried removing and reinstalling all GPU drivers (Intel and Nvidia). I don't really game much on this laptop but I wanted a smoother experience than 60Hz as I need it mainly for work. Would this be a bandwidth problem ? Do I need to change the eDP cable as well or is it that my GPU just can't handle 2K at 165Hz (i have managed run an ext. monitor with the same laptop hitting 2K @ 120FPS in less demanding titles, it dips to 50FPS in newer titles).

Hi! I am experiencing an issue with the refresh rate when running Ryujinx in fullscreen. I have a 144Hz LG monitor, but since emulating in Ryujinx works smoothest with 60Hz, I change the refresh rate of my monitor before I play. The problem is, as soon as I run Ryujinx in fullscreen, the refresh rate defaults back to 144Hz and all my games feel stuttery, I guess due to bad frame pacing. I've tried different DP and HDMI cables, different ports on my GPU (RX 6600), reinstalling Windows clean and creating custom resolutions in AMD software. Nothing worked. Did anyone experience these issues before and might have any suggestions on what I can do to fix this? I've submitted requests to the Ryujinx team as well, but I got no reply so far.

Hi, i really don't know where to seek help so i'm writing here. i hope you guys will be able to help me! i am running 4 monitors on a gigabyte gaming 4090, previously i used to have a strix 3090 and didn't have this problem, untill the card fried and i had to change it. my problem consists in being unable to select 10bpc on my main monitor, it's the only monitor running in 4k and it's an acer predator XB273KGPbmiipprzx. On my 3090 things would boot up like normal, the other 3 monitors would be in 1080p 60hz and my main monitor would be in 4k 60hz at 10bpc. as soon as i switched to this 4090, every monitor boots like normal bar for my main, it goes to 59.997 10 bpc. This of course wouldn't be a big problem, but as soon as i try to change the refresh rate to 60hz it goes down to 8bpc. and if i try to change the refresh rate to 119,910hz (120 of course) it reverts immediately to 60hz. This got me wondering if it was a cable problem, but this occured as soon as swapping gpus. i did change the cable after, but it was a problem that already presented itself even without a new cable. When i unplug the screen and plug it back again, i am able to select 4k 60hz 10bpc and even go to 4k 120hz 8bpc. This got me thinking that when my pc boots, the screen is "stuck" in DP 1.2 mode, even if the OSD says it's on 1.4 i am theorizing this because the behaviour i described is that of a monitor in DP 1.2 mode (as far as my knowledge goes at least, feel free to correct me please i am desperate for a solution) . However when i plug it back in, as i said, it suddenly behaves like DP 1.4 and my options are all back. I can even open the monitor OSD and fiddle with the DP 1.1/1.2/.14 setting, it will work (i guess because it counts as unplugging and plugging it back in). i am at my wit's end, i am not an expert by any means and i feel like i have exhausted my possibilites, google wasn't much help, the fact that i didn't know how to explain it properly for a search to be successful certainly contributed. I don't know if they can help troubleshoot, but this are some of my specs (if you guys need any more just tell me and i will provide!): Motherboard: Asus dark hero VIII Ram: G.Skill F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC Gpu: Gigabyte Gaming 24gb 4090 (not OC) Cpu: ryzen 9 5950X Already tried the DDU drill and that didn't help. I really would love to be able to just boot my pc and have it like it was without having to do all that, if any of you guys could help... it would be great! thanks in advance!

Setup: Display 1: AOC monitor (Freesync capable), 240Hz, connected via DP Display 2: Samsung TV 60Hz, connected via HDMI GPU: 6900XT OS: Windows 10&11 (swapped over to W11 after the incident, same problem) all drivers are up to date ! Issue: Exact same setup was running for 2-3 years, but after fiddling around in the settings (which I of course reverted) it doesn't anymore. On the desktop everything works fine, Display1 runs smoothly @240Hz while the TV runs @60Hz. Problem only occurs in games. Display 1 drops down to 60Hz which causes an unsmooth gaming experience and tearing from time to time. Was never an issue before. My personal assumption: Checked the AMD display settings. Display 1 has 1920x1080 with a !dynamic! refresh rate range from 40 to 240 Hz while the TV has only 1920x1080 at 60 Hz. So I assume the GPU caps display 1 to 60 Hz so both run at the same resolution and refresh rate. Custom resolution should not be possible because it says display cloning is not possible anymore after. So my question is if anyone may have a similar setup and could fetch me his settings. So far I have searched the internet for hours but couldn't find anyone with the same issue (at least not with an AMD card). Appreciate any kind of help

Hi guys! I've been having problems with my monitor lately. Everytime I turn the monitor on or I start up my PC after a long while, my monitor has these weird horizontal lines running down the screen. My monitor is a ROG PG348Q. This next bit is really where it stumps me. The flickering only occurs on max refresh rate (100 hz) and I usually have to step it down to 94.99 or 89.96 so that the problem disappears. There are also times when my PC has been on for days (2-4 days straight), the flickering disappears when I try to set it back to 100hz. Any ideas on what's wrong? I haven't tried any solutions yet. 20230705_140528.mp4

(Sorry in advace for my bad grammar) This is more of question of monitor durability. so this was the problem, I once have a Viewsonic XG2431 240hz monitor, being a 240 then of course i change it to using 240 hz in windows. and i use it for a couple months not even a year. sometimes the monitor brightness starts to dimming itself then back to normal. It happens maybe 2 times then the next day it goes back fine, so i didn't think much about it. then one day when i turn my pc back on, there was many lines in the display and shadows like on the attachment. i never drop the monitor never pour liquid on it, it just stand there being a monitor nothing much and it did that. Because its still on warranty i tell viewsonic about it and they gave me a new monitor. then i also have 2019 razer blade advance model with a 240 hz display. it works fine too until one day a big line appear on the side of the screen and the display are turning on and off. I can confirm that other component are still fine since playing on an external monitor was fine. But being a laptop it is, i still need the display to work so i can bring it anywhere. then i search google and found out that changing refresh rate to lower may help. then i do that using steamlink to access the windows 11 setting and change the display refresh rate to 60, and surpisingly it work. (the display are in on off state, the display are black more often then showing image, thats why i use steamlink to access the setting, doing it via external monitor won't do either, since windows save setings for each duplicate/extend/show only in display 1/2. so i need to change it only in show only in display 1). the lines and the glitch in my display laptop are gone. so after that these question poped up in my mind. Was the XG2431 broken because of setting the refresh rate at its max? will it be fixed once i lower the refresh rate? Does the lifespan on a higher refresh rate monitor shorter then a standard 60hz monitor? Ive multiple standard monitor that are still working properly even from 2010. Or all this was just because im unlucky? because all this i wonder if there is someone that try to review monitor from its durability and reliability standpoint, instead of display performance haha

So I have this problem where if I set my refresh rate to 165hz, my monitors restart/prr cycle every 30-60 seconds. They support 165hz according to gigabyte. I am using the display port for both, and I have HDR.full specs below. 2, Gigabyte G32QC A Curved Monitors (connected via 8K DP cables) AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Gigabyte 3060 GDDR6 12GB Asus Prime B550-plus MB XPG 3200 ram Windows 11 home As far as I can tell, the monitors are up to date, but I am honestly not sure as I am not 100% certain on how to update them outside of through to system settings. I only have this issue at 165hz. I do not have this issue at 120 or 60hz

Hello, I am an owner of a HP Pavillion Gaming 15 15-dk0010TX. As an FPS gamer, using 60hz has been a really pain and been wanting to upgrade to a 144 or even 120hz as my FPS in games are well over 120. Asked around and a repair shop offered 185 USD (To be exact its MYR750) and I asked if my laptop supports 144 and he just said yes. I really do not have budget to buy a new laptop because I do not work yet and have to pay rents and so, so upgrading the screen will do a lot as I have felt a friends 144hz it was so butter smooth. Asking if my laptop would support it and is the price like overpriced? Cause I feel thats a damn lot for a screen Laptop specs i5-9300H GTX 1050 4GB 12GB RAM (8x4) 256 M.2 (I think its 256GB) 1TB HDD You can search the model up

Need a review of this monitor ASUS VG248QG 24 INCH 165 HZ. Does it have ghosting issue? Or any ips monitor with closer response time compared to this asus TN panel monitor?

My monitor is 144hz on every game i play but for some reason when i open aimlabs my refresh rate gets taken down to 60hz? anyone know how to fix this?

First off, thanks for taking the time to read my first post, i hope to become a regular in these forums. So ive been troubleshooting my samsung odyssey G5, the issue im experiencing is that once the monitor comes out of standby after the PC has been on for a while, theres is the sound of a new monitor being connected the pixels seem to be blurry to read (i can distincly notice the colours of the pixels, and when i see the monitor setting my resolution is at 2560 x 1440 @ 119.99 hz when it should be at 2560 x 1440 @144 hz. The issue is easily resolved by turning the monitor on and off and unplugging/replugging the display port, but i shouldnt have to do that every time sooooo that means its time for some trouble shooting. Attempted troubleshooting process: I started by switching out my display port cable from my DP 1.4 to a DP 1.3 im borrowing. the problem was resolved until i placed the DP cable into the cable slots of my vesa mount arm unsure of whether this is just a correlation or a cause. I proceeded to suspect either the cable is being pinched, or there is some magnetic interference from the power chord which is sharing the tight organising path. giving the cable more slack and ensuring no pinching has not resolved the issue. My next option is to seperate the cables and see if the power cable is indeed interfering with the signal. HDMI does not experience this issue. both ends are firmly plugged in. Second 1440p @75hz monitor experiences none of these issues (connected via HDMI and no DP to troubleshoot that aveneue). I'd love to hear someone elses thoughts on possible things i could check, i have no idea on how id even isolate the monitor or my GPU to see if maybe those are the cause of the problems. If the monitor is the issue i can still return it under warranty, and the same goes for my gpu (gtx 1060 6G). Thanks in advance for everyones suggestions!

I currently have this beauty but only problem is it is 60hz. I recently was able to get a 3060 and have a ryzen 7 5800x. Looking for a good curved monitor that’s still 30-32in and has good hz, 140 and up. White would also be a plus but very hard to find. Please help me complete my setup. Thank you

Hooked up Gigabyte M27Q which is capable of 170Hz refresh rate however i don't have that option in Windows 10. The monitor is connected to video card with display port cable which came with the monitor. Max refresh rate option i get is 144Hz option in Windows 10, i don't see any option in the AMD software to adjust the refresh rate. I updated the firmware on the monitor to F04 which is the latest. I'm using the monitor with an AMD ATI 7970 video card, Is my video card capped at 144Hz? Any ideas on how to get the monitor to 170Hz?

Screen goes black for like 2 seconds in games usually, really annoying. Looks like something refresh rate related but there shouldn't be any problems and I don't know how to start going through the potential causes. I have a 240hz screen and a 144hz screen, I play on the 240hz screen and it's the one that does this. Happens on both borderless and fullscreen mode, and even if I enable vsync in the game. AMD options: I have an undervolt enabled now because it makes no difference compared to stock, I was still getting black screens on stock mv Ram is running like this If anyone went through something like this I'd love to hear what you ended up doing to fix it

Hey guys I had a doubt, I have a normal laptop, its refresh rate is 60Hz, i've checked the settings. I wanted to know that if I bought an expensive gaming monitor(with a higher refresh rate), and hooked it up to the laptop, using a normal hdmi cable, will be getting higher refresh rate pictures on that monitor, or will I be restricted to the 60Hz on that monitor as well?

i noticed when i went to overclock my 60hz 1080p monitor that i had an option to change it to 60hz interlaced i did a bit of googling and found a few random bits of information that suggested its possible to double the fps by interchanging every second line of pixels to imitate 120hz. is this false or would it improve competitive gaming experience on a budget? (terrible visuals aside)

My laptop has recently dropped in FPS for many games and i couldn't find any reasons to. When my checked my the refresh rate for my screen, it was 48 hz, and only 2 options were available that is 48 hz and 60.003 hz which was weird to me. When i choose the higher one, all the fps in my games where around 1-10 and i was shocked. I am wondering if there are any ways to fix the screen stutterings. I have tried updating graphics drivers.

I custom a 1280*720 144hz using CRU (custom resolution utility) and it works fine . When I play VALORANT , I find the custom resolution I have created , but the monitor shows only 120 when I play full-screen . If I change my resolution to windowed full-screen I can see the 144hz on my monitor but its windowed I get input lag and fps drop ingame .Is there a way to play VALORANT full-screen with my 144hz custom resolution ? (My monitor is asus VG248QG 165hz and laptop msi gf75thin 9rcx using a 2.1 hdmi cable.)

Hello all, I am having a bit of trouble with my displays. I have two Scepter M25s and an RTX 3060Ti, but my GPU only has 1 HDMI output. In the past I have run both displays off of DP, but with DP my monitors decided to randomly go black before popping back to life. They repeatedly would do this until I unplugged the DP cable from the monitor and plugged it back in. Everything at that point would usually work fine for a day or two or until I restarted my machine. This frustrated the crap out of me so I switched one monitor to HDMI and have the other is connected to HDMI via a DP to HDMI adaptor: no issues with blacking out. This brings me to my problem. My monitor that is connected via the converter is limited to 60Hz when I know the cable and monitor both support 1080p at 144Hz on HDMI. What can I do to run my second display at a full 144Hz? I think I need a better adaptor, but many do not say what refresh rates they support on the box or in marketing materials, and its not as simple as looking for the spec of the cable. Can someone pleas provide me some recommendations on adaptors or teach me how to identify the product I need? Thanks in advance, Tim

Hello guys, I have just bought a new monitor (Philips 345e2ae) which works perfectly with my work laptop (Dell Latitude 7320 2in1, Intel Core i5-1145G7). The problem I run into is the following: When I connect the display to my personal notebook (Lenovo IdeaPad C340, AMD Ryzen 5 3500U), it just runs at 30Hz. In the Windows settings, this is also the only setting I can select. When I try to create a custom resulution in the AMD Software, it says that the resolution is not compatible with the display, which is very strange because it works fine with the other notebook. When I "force" the resolution using CRU, it doesn't work either and the AMD Software shows that FreeSync is not compatible anymore (Before is was just between 30 and 48Hz). My next assumption was, that the HDMI-Link isn't fast enough for that bandwidth. I don't know much about different HDMI versions, but my laptop can drive my TV (4K, 60Hz) just fine. I read something about color profiles online and that I should switch from RGB to YCbCr but the AMD Software doesn't show that as an option and my work notebook runs in RGB-mode as well. Sadly I sold my Desktop-PC a few months ago, so I can't test with it. I'm out of ideas now and I hope some of you can help me

Hi All, I managed to get hold of a 3080ti XC3 Ultra at MSRP which i recieved today. Im having an issue with my Acer x34p monitor where when i try to increase the refresh rate from anything above 60 hz, the monitor acts like its getting an intermitent signal from my pc. This issue only arose when i installed the card My old card (GTX 1080 ti) never encountered this issue. Ive done vbios updates, new drivers for both gpu and monitor, unistalling drivers, cleared cmos, enabled HAGS (aparrently a fix on earlier rtx 30 series cards) but still no luck. Any advice would be welcome before i open up an rma request eith evga Many thanks, DaButterGamer

So say I watched a 1080p video with 30 fps at double speed on YouTube with at least a 60 fps monitor. Will I be getting only 30 fps on double speed and thus half as many frames or will the video play all of the frames at double the speed (60fps) ? Same goes for 1080p60 at double speed, will it play at 120 htz on double speed?