Refresh Rate Issues

[DatOneGuy]

I took a 2 month break from playing, and upon returning I have found that the game messes with my monitor settings. When launched, the game sets my monitor's refresh rate to 60 (it is normally 75). When I alt tab out of the game to fix the issue in my windows settings, I can set it to 75 but it is reverted to 60 as soon as I open the game again. Does anyone else have this issue? Any help would be appreciated. I hope yall have a lovely day/afternoon/night!
(EDIT: SOLVED)
Apparently, the setting "Pause Game on Focus Loss" was the culprit. If anyone else has a similar issue, try that.

[Damien]

Can you select a proper refresrate and resolution in the video settins or what happens if you try to change them ? Also specs are always needed, cpu,gpu,mem,mon, otherwise troubleshooting is not as effective.

[firestorm]

Game has no way to change settings in Windows.

Before loading the game,
Right click anywhere on your desktop.
Click "Display settings" then scroll down on the right pane of that window and select "Advanced display settings" select your refresh rate on that page.
After that, check your GPU's driver refresh rate setting to verify it matches.
Load the game and check it's settings and adjust the refresh rate accordingly.

[DatOneGuy]

Originally posted by firestorm:

Game has no way to change settings in Windows.

Before loading the game,
Right click anywhere on your desktop.
Click "Display settings" then scroll down on the right pane of that window and select "Advanced display settings" select your refresh rate on that page.
After that, check your GPU's driver refresh rate setting to verify it matches.
Load the game and check it's settings and adjust the refresh rate accordingly.

This is the issue. Whenever I reopen the game, the setting goes back to 60. I can manually change it as much as I like but it will be reverted as soon as the tab is reopened.

[DatOneGuy]

Originally posted by Damien:

Can you select a proper refresrate and resolution in the video settins or what happens if you try to change them ? Also specs are always needed, cpu,gpu,mem,mon, otherwise troubleshooting is not as effective.

RX 6700XT
i5 12400
32gb 3200mghz ram
Windows 10 64 bit
Dell S2421HS

[Shaken_Widow]

alt tabbing will set the game to windowed borderless mode and stop the game from using your monitors full refresh rate, note the refresh rate will be greyed out.

stop alt tabbing.

select the "fullscreen" mode and then change the refresh rate in game, unfortunately 75 is not a number the game will use because it goes in 10fps increments until you get to 144, which is most likely why you can't have 75 fps set.

that monitor isn't really designed for gaming, it's more for viewing movies with extended eye comfort.

sure it's able to be used for gaming and can deliver positive results but the main purpose dell designed that monitor was for clarity in picture, not actually pushing it to the limit in games.

[DatOneGuy]

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

alt tabbing will set the game to windowed borderless mode and stop the game from using your monitors full refresh rate, note the refresh rate will be greyed out.

stop alt tabbing.

select the "fullscreen" mode and then change the refresh rate in game, unfortunately 75 is not a number the game will use because it goes in 10fps increments until you get to 144, which is most likely why you can't have 75 fps set.

that monitor isn't really designed for gaming, it's more for viewing movies with extended eye comfort.

sure it's able to be used for gaming and can deliver positive results but the main purpose dell designed that monitor was for clarity in picture, not actually pushing it to the limit in games.

Unfortunately this does not work, even while in full screen my monitor settings change. I am aware this isn't a gaming monitor, however this wasn't an issue as I have used it for nearly a year prior to this with no issues whatsoever. Also, I would alt-tab all of the time while playing without trouble, it just seems to be an issue now.

[Shaken_Widow]

Originally posted by DatOneGuy:

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

alt tabbing will set the game to windowed borderless mode and stop the game from using your monitors full refresh rate, note the refresh rate will be greyed out.

stop alt tabbing.

select the "fullscreen" mode and then change the refresh rate in game, unfortunately 75 is not a number the game will use because it goes in 10fps increments until you get to 144, which is most likely why you can't have 75 fps set.

that monitor isn't really designed for gaming, it's more for viewing movies with extended eye comfort.

sure it's able to be used for gaming and can deliver positive results but the main purpose dell designed that monitor was for clarity in picture, not actually pushing it to the limit in games.

Unfortunately this does not work, even while in full screen my monitor settings change. I am aware this isn't a gaming monitor, however this wasn't an issue as I have used it for nearly a year prior to this with no issues whatsoever. Also, I would alt-tab all of the time while playing without trouble, it just seems to be an issue now.

alt tabbing has always set the game to windowed borderless for me, it needs to because the fullscreen version is "exclusive" meaning if you were to open another window the exclusivity would not exist anymore, thus the reason for the game changing automatically.

if the issue is that the fps setting is being changed from alt tabbing it may be due to a driver issue with your monitor itself, or a setting on the hardware of the monitor.

my monitor is an actual curved gaming monitor by MSI that has a refresh rate of 144fps, but in order for it to actually hit those numbers i first had to enable it to do so through its on screen display settings with the little joystick on the back because by default, the monitors are set to eco mode which limits the fps to 60.

so maybe check the OSD settings on your monitor and see if eco mode has been enabled, or something like that that dell has for their monitors? - i had to set mine to dev mode and do a few other things like that just to get the full potential.

note: some OSD image enhancement software actually locks framerates like this which is why some screens like my own are preferred to have those turned off.

[firestorm]

Originally posted by DatOneGuy:

This is the issue. DatOneGuy

tabbing out of a game does not exit the game.

[Shaken_Widow]

Originally posted by firestorm:

Originally posted by DatOneGuy:

This is the issue. DatOneGuy

tabbing out of a game does not exit the game.

no one said it did.

[firestorm]

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

Originally posted by firestorm:

tabbing out of a game does not exit the game.

no one said it did.

Op did.

Originally posted by DatOneGuy:

I can manually change it as much as I like but it will be reverted as soon as the tab is reopened.

Originally posted by DatOneGuy:

When I alt tab out of the game to fix the issue in my windows settings, I can set it to 75 but it is reverted to 60 as soon as I open the game again.

When the game loads (not tabbed out)
The game detects the desktop resolution as well as the refresh rate.

Op's creating an endless loop for their self by tabbing out/in

[Shaken_Widow]

Originally posted by firestorm:

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

no one said it did.

Op did.

Originally posted by DatOneGuy:

I can manually change it as much as I like but it will be reverted as soon as the tab is reopened.

Originally posted by DatOneGuy:

When I alt tab out of the game to fix the issue in my windows settings, I can set it to 75 but it is reverted to 60 as soon as I open the game again.

When the game loads (not tabbed out)
The game detects the desktop resolution as well as the refresh rate.

Op's creating an endless loop for their self by tabbing out/in

no where in either of those quotes did OP say the game was "exiting"

they were talking about tabbing out and back in, and the refresh rate being reset when it does so and have stated that it did not reset the refresh rate before.

it doesn't reset the refresh rate for me either, it just sets it to windowed borderless like i said, once i switch back to fullscreen it still has the 144 fps set.

so idk what you're talking about, no one said alt tabbing closes the game.

[168cm 83kg 13cm]

Go to NVCP> Adjust image settings > Use the advanced 3D Image settings and make sure that the "Preferred refresh rate" is set to "Highest available" rather than "Application controlled" for your rdr2.exe

then try to unplug and replug your HDMI/DP cable into another GPU slot.
After that proceed to Change resolution > and play with the "Output color depth" option. Try to lower it if possible (this might help if your cable is damaged and cannot output enough bandwidth to run the game in 75hz).

I'd also make sure that the scaling is disabled on the "Adjust desktop size and position" tab.

[firestorm]

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

no where in either of those quotes did OP say the game was "exiting"

He was told to exit the game,
Not that hard to understand their response to that.

Only way it's going to work is if he EXITS the game entirely and gets his monitor set up as it should be before loading the game again. smh

[Shaken_Widow]

Originally posted by firestorm:

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

no where in either of those quotes did OP say the game was "exiting"

He was told to exit the game,
Not that hard to understand their response to that.

Only way it's going to work is if he EXITS the game entirely and gets his monitor set up as it should be before loading the game again. smh

yes i understand what you're saying.

but again, NO WHERE IN THIS ENTIRE POST DID OP SAY THEY EXITED THE GAME.

i know that your first comment you told them to do so, but the original post was about alt tabbing, and you do NOT have to close the game to change the refresh rate.

you simply change the number in the games graphics settings and hit the button that says "apply"

then it will ask you if you want to keep these settings.

not once will it ask you to restart the game.

shutting the game down is NOT needed to change the refresh rate of the game.

yes, it IS needed to do so with your gpu control panel, but that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE IN GAME SETTINGS.

basically OP is stating a bug with the graphics settings, when alt tabbing the FPS limit IN THE GAME ITSELF changes.

this should not happen.

all it should do is switch off of fullscreen to windowed mode, switching back to fullscreen should give OP the ability to change their FPS again but it does not.

this points to a driver issue with their monitor as i have already said, which if it is the case, no amount of messing with their gpu control panel is going to fix it and restarting the game isn't even needed to be mentioned.

[firestorm]

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

yes i understand what you're saying.

but again, NO WHERE IN THIS ENTIRE POST DID OP SAY THEY EXITED THE GAME.

i know that your first comment you told them to do so, but the original post was about alt tabbing, and you do NOT have to close the game to change the refresh rate.

you simply change the number in the games graphics settings and hit the button that says "apply"

then it will ask you if you want to keep these settings.

not once will it ask you to restart the game.

shutting the game down is NOT needed to change the refresh rate of the game.

No you really don't.

If the monitor is set to 60hz in Windows, you cannot increase the refresh rate via the game to something higher than 60hz even if the monitor actually supports a higher refresh rate, period.