Why Does My Monitor's Refresh Rate Reset Itself Upon Every Restart?

[VirtualVictory]

Every single day this week since Tuesday I've had to reinstall the GTX 970 Windows 10 driver to re-enable 144Hz for my monitor. It's slightly annoying.

Does anyone else here use Windows 10 and have experienced this issue with a GTX 900 Series card?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It does it for my desktop; but when I launch games, those still say 144Hz in-game, which is all that really matters.

[Azza ☠]

What do you mean by reset itself - to what? Also, you didn't mention what the monitor is?
Do you have the latest drivers installed for both monitor and the graphics card?

144Hz is designed as a 3D refresh rate, most of the time you don't actually need/use it. High-end gaming monitors will be 144Hz/120Hz. You will find it might auto-toggle to 120Hz for general gaming purposes - this is normal and optimal for V-SYNC, etc.

V-SYNC then can scale 30 FPS, 60 FPS, 120 FPS to match the 120Hz monitor refresh, for example.

G-SYNC if your monitor supports it, will uncap this, if enabled. Syncing the monitor refresh rate to the graphics card varible FPS output.

[VirtualVictory]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

What do you mean by reset itself - to what? Also, you didn't mention what the monitor is?
Do you have the latest drivers installed for both monitor and the graphics card?

144Hz is designed as a 3D refresh rate, most of the time you don't actually need/use it. High-end gaming monitors will be 144Hz/120Hz. You will find it might auto-toggle to 120Hz for general gaming purposes - this is normal and optimal for V-SYNC, etc.

V-SYNC then can scale 30 FPS, 60 FPS, 120 FPS to match the 120Hz monitor refresh, for example.

G-SYNC if your monitor supports it, will uncap this, if enabled. Syncing the monitor refresh rate to the graphics card varible FPS output.

The monitor is an ASUS VG248QE 24" and yes, I have the latest drivers for it and my GTX 970. Upon restart it resets my refresh rate to 64Hz and the only way I fix it is by reinstalling the latest video card driver every time.

Updates could be going on while I sleep that reset my preferences but I don't know how to prevent this. I'm using the Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Build 10162 by the way.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What are your options once you are in a game?
I don't think u understand how refresh works.
As long as those options are still available in-game, then u don't have an issue here.

[Azza ☠]

Suggest you wait till 29th July to get the final version of Windows 10 Pro.

Then ensure you have your chipset drivers installed (check latest from motherboard website).

64Hz refresh rate is extremely odd, most likely 60Hz. Windows might have installed the generic driver for the display adapter.

Right-click desktop > Screen Resolution > Advance settings

Then click on the monitor tab.
(ensure both monitor and graphics card are labeled there correct while you are at it)

Tick hide modes that the monitor cannot display.
Increase the Screen refresh rate up at high as allowed (120Hz or 144Hz). Apply.