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Refresh Rate Changing Itself at Random
Hello all,
Not sure if this is actually a problem with my graphics card, my laptop's screen, or something else but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction:
As the title says, my laptop screen's refresh rate keeps changing itself from 120Hz to 60Hz seemingly at random (mid-game sometimes). When it suddenly starts running at 60Hz, both Windows display settings and the Nvidia control panel still show it's set to 120Hz and it doesn't revert back until I manually switch it to 60 and then back to 120. Turning G-SYNC off doesn't fix the problem. I'm running the latest Game-Ready drivers (441.66) and Windows version 1909 (18363.535).
I tried a clean install of the drivers after running DDU and also tried reverting back to 441.41 (with which I had no issues that I can recall) to no avail. Also clean installed Windows entirely multiple times: once I tried both manually installing all manufacturer drivers and another time I just let Windows Update do its thing and I got the same result with each so I'm at my wit's end trying to figure out what changed.
If anyone is having the same issue or can provide any suggestions, I'd really appreciate the help. Thanks! (My profile is updated with my full system specs).
DxDiag file and screenshot of issue below.
DxDiag.txt
Update: Quite literally just after posting this, I tried fiddling with the Nvidia control panel settings again and I changed the refresh rate to 60Hz and my screen started flickering non-stop and changing it back to 120Hz stopped the flickering but didn't actually change the refresh rate back to 120Hz as it normally always has. Rebooting still temporarily fixes the problem. I'm now thinking my screen is indeed failing though it's shown no other issues...
Last edited by That Laggy Guy; 04 Jan 2020 at 23:55. Reason: Update