Hi, I have two monitors. My primary monitor is 144hz with freesync and my secondary with 60hz without freesync. Where can I find option to set 144hz for my monitor? If I set 144hz in display settings then my cursor is smooth like 144fps but everything else is laggy at 60fps
Hi @Bagetak, and welcome!
I also have two monitors on KDE plasma and the refresh rate can be set in System Settings → Hardware → Display and Monitor → Display Configuration.
Hope this helps!
I changed refresh rate in System Settings → Hardware → Display and Monitor → Display Configuration to 144hz on my primary monitor but I don’t see any difference on desktop. Like moving and dragging windows, scrolling in browser is same as 60hz. Only cursor is smooth at 144fps.
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System:
Kernel: 5.10.38-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=5418c255-59ab-4065-b0c4-4cb2a1705476 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B450M BAZOOKA (MS-7A38) v: 3.0
serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: H.E0 date: 06/11/2020
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.65 GiB used: 2.66 GiB (17.0%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache:
L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 86424
Speed: 3600 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
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Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
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Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 29:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.0x11.2")
s-diag: 1055mm (41.5")
Monitor-1: DisplayPort-0 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2")
diag: 686mm (27")
Monitor-2: DisplayPort-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27")
OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.40.0
5.10.38-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.1.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 29:00.1
chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2b:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: C-Media Blue Snowball type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 0d8c:0005
class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-4: COOLING.PL Zdziech Spolka Jawn VIRO Plus type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-3:4 chip-ID: 3299:4e4e
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.38-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.28 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 25:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp37s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.95 TiB used: 461.58 GiB (15.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M81000G
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: S5Z42105 temp: 38.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G
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rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5A scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 223.27 GiB size: 218.71 GiB (97.96%)
used: 94.06 GiB (43.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: 5418c255-59ab-4065-b0c4-4cb2a1705476
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL
uuid: 7D87-9456
ID-3: /mnt/windows raw-size: 930.91 GiB size: 930.91 GiB (100.00%)
used: 367.52 GiB (39.5%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
label: N/A uuid: 027A82FD7A82ED2B
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: 387D-31F5
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 500 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: CA18F70118F6EAF9
ID-4: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 1.82 TiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 368EAD708EAD28F7
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Itron iONE TESORO GRAM XS type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 195d:2058 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 3-2:3 info: C-Media Blue Snowball type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0d8c:0005 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Device-3: 3-3:4 info: COOLING.PL Zdziech Spolka Jawn VIRO Plus
type: Audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4
rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 3299:4e4e class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 3-4:5 info: Razer USA RZ01-0265 Gaming Mouse [Basilisk Essential]
type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1532:0065 class-ID: 0300
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.9 C mobo: 0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1023
Info:
Processes: 328 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1375 lib: 410 flatpak: 0
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04
I have this on all desktop envoriments. I tried Gnome, Xfce and Cinamon.
On GNOME you can try this:
I found 2 solutions:
- Use wayland.
- On Xorg I manged to get working by enabling tear free rendering even if I have no tearing. I also added option for variable refresh rate. Now my desktop is finally smooth. It works on Gnome, Xfce and Cinamon too.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "AMD"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "TearFree" "true"
Option "VariableRefresh" "true"
EndSection
But I have still problem with Google Chrome = all chromium based browsers.
Chrome won’t run at 144fps even on Wayland. I tried enabling native wayland support with hwdec and nothing. Only solution I found is to use Firefox but I don’t like Firefox.
I found something interesting. Enabling VRR and TearFree rendering fixes that windows are rendering at 60 fps. But still I had in all chromium apps 60 fps anyway. I don’t needed anyway.
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 connected primary 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
1920x1080 60.00 + 144.00* 120.00 119.88 119.98 99.93 74.97 50.00 59.94
1680x1050 60.00
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 60.00
1280x800 60.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 119.93 99.99 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 119.93 99.86 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 119.80 99.83 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
1920x1080 60.00 + 50.00 59.94*
1680x1050 60.00
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 60.00
1280x800 60.00
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 60.00
800x600 75.00 60.32
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
DisplayPort-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-A-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
If I unplug my 60 hz monitor (DisplayPort-1) from my graphics card and connect it back than all my issues are FIXED = chromium renders at 144 fps and windows renders at 144 fps. But if I am booting with both monitors connected than issues are here = only mouse is 144 fps. How can I have set correctly refresh rate without unplugging and plugging back my monitor from graphics card on each login.
I also tried put this in /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
xrandr --output DisplayPort-0 --rate 144 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --output DisplayPort-1 --rate 60 --left-of DisplayPort-0 --mode 1920x1080
than login screen renders 144 fps and left and right monitor is set correctly but I still need to unplug and plug my monitor to get like “full” 144 hz refresh rate.
So if I unplug and plug my monitor from gpu then all is fine.
But after I run kwin_x11 --replace
than issues are back I need to replugin monitor again.
The 60 hz somehow bottleknecking my 144 hz monitor.
I found this on wiki
Utiliser VSync
VSync allows you to synchronize the rendering with the screen. Unless there is good reason to change, this setting should be enabled. Even if the setting is disabled the Compositor tries to use the frame rate the screen supports and by default a frame rate of 60 Hz is used.
For multiple screens it is important to know that the rendering can only be synchronized with one screen. In case the screens have a different frame rate it might be valid to disable this option and to set a manual frame rate.
I think that kwin syncing my refresh rate to my 60 hz monitor for some reason. The only way that I found to force sync to 144 hz is unplug my 60 hz from gpu and plug it back.
Unpluging and pluging back my 60 hz monitor makes kwin vsync to 144 hz but it’s not permanent. After I open some program in fullscreen it is again vsyncing to my 60 hz monitor and I need to unplug and plug my monitor back. I found that I can do it with xrandr too
xrandr --rate 144 #only active 144 hz monitor
kwin_x11 --replace & # replace and start vsync to 144 hz
# turn on my second monitor
xrandr --output DisplayPort-0 --rate 144 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --output DisplayPort-1 --rate 60 --left-of DisplayPort-0 --mode 1920x1080
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