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Lenovo Legion 5 games choppy until I pin Xbox Game Bar Overlay

Lenovo Legion 5 15ACH6H
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H (3,30Ghz) with Radeon Graphics + Nvidia GeForce  RTX 3060
6023 MB VRAM
16 GB RAM
SSD Samsung MZVLB1T0HBLR-000L2
Lith-Polymer battery 60Wh 15.36 V/17.37V
230 WAT Power Brick
internal display 2560x1440 (QHD) 165Hz

external display 1920x1080 60Hz res
Windows 11 Home 64-bit

 

Okay, so long story short: some of my games are really choppy and stuttery even though they have consistent FPS.

When I'm playing on internal display with 2560 x 1440 165Hz resolution all older games are choppy and stuttering. Games capped to 30FPS or 60FPS also stutter. Weirdly enough, new games like Kingdom Come, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Blair Witch work fine even when they're also capped to 60 FPS.
When I'm playing on external monitor with 1920x1080 60Hz resolution 60 FPS games are buttery smooth, but games with FPS below that are choppy.
Interesting enough, all games become smooth when I either start recording or pin an Xbox Game Bar overlay. So eg. if I pin its FPS overlay, everything is smooth, no matter if it's 30FPS, 60FPS or 165FPS.

 

So far I tested it on these games and results were as follows:
Kingdom Come, Blair With, TESO, Rise of the Tomb Raider = smooth regardless of resolution, hz, fps
Tomb Raider Underworld, Tomb Raider the Angel of Darkness = smooth on 60Hz display, stutter on 165Hz display. Become smooth when recording or when xbox overlay is pinned.
Tomb Raider 1-5 = choppy on both displays, smooth when recording/overlay pinned.

 

Does anyone have any idea why this might happen? Considering newer games work fine, while older stutter, it doesn't seem like some hardware issue, but more likely software issue?

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