Secondary 60 Hz monitor causing issues in some games for my main 144 Hz monitor

[xFluing]

While I was writing this I did some more experimenting and I found out my issues were caused by having freesync enabled on the monitor itself (probably an issue with the monitor firmware). After turning it off from the monitor everything seems to be working fine. If you want to keep freesync, disconnect the other monitor. It's a pick your poison situation so just pick the lesser of the evils befitting of your situation or needs.

 

I am leaving this here anyway even though it's solved just in case someone else stumbles upon an issue as obscure as this

 

Title says it all. In a select few games, when I have my 60 Hz monitor connected - it causes the main monitor to sort of stutter. The frame output from the game is fine, it says 140+ FPS in all these cases, but for whatever reason it acts as if it were a lower refresh rate - maybe it's a Windows thing and it tries to match the refresh rates together?

 

The monitor also correctly reports as being set to 144 Hz.

 

What I tried so far:

• Disabled full screen optimizations
• Disabling freesync (from the driver)
• Enabling V-sync in game

 

 

[adb push]

before just disabling freesync try this and see if it helps. 

 

[xFluing]

On 11/22/2022 at 1:25 AM, adb push said:

before just disabling freesync try this and see if it helps. 

OK so if it is what I think it is - because I stumbled upon this previously - I JUST figured out right now that indeed it was because discord (which uses chromium) was open on my other monitor. I just didn't make the connection.