Manjaro i3 community edition screen does not feel 165hz high refresh rate

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Hi All!

I recently installed Manjaro i3 (community edition) and set everything on my dual monitor setup in nvidia-settings but the screen does not feel like 165Hz at all.
My setup is:
Ryzen 5 3600
GTX 1660
Dual monitor - 2x Dell S2721DGF (165Hz G-Sync compatible)

Now what I’ve configured so far under X Server Display Configuration in nvidia-settings is this:
Resolution 2560x1440 , refresh rate 165Hz (same set on both displays)
Force Composition Pipeline enabled on both displays

Under OpenGL settings:
Sync to VBlank enabled
Allow Flipping enabled
Allow G-Sync/G-Sync compatible enabled

UFO Test (w w w . testufo . c o m) says: VSYNC is not available on the Linux platform.

Am I missing something?

The same setup on Manjaro KDE edition seemed much better and could notice that its running on 165Hz/FPS while dragging windows.
I would just like to use i3wm instead of KDE or XFCE or else.

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You are of course aware that the human eye cannot register more than 30 frames per second, aren’t you? :wink:

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yes I am aware :smiley: but I hope you guys know what I mean by that.
You can see that when moving a floating window its almost tearing.

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That sounds like a compositor problem, which may or may not be related to the graphics driver. :thinking:

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I moved on from i3 on manjaro just to have it working.
Maybe in the future I’ll come back to it.

Thanks for the help!

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