Hello everyone. I’ve noticed recently that some games were not running at my monitor’s refresh rate and were stuck at 60 fps on my Qtile session: my monitor has a 75 hz refresh rate, which is not a big difference from 60 but I’ve been experiencing some input drops that I attribute to the framerate cap. Anyway, at first I though this was some issue with Picom, but killing all Picom (and even starting a session with it totally disabled) I’m still running Qtile at 60 fps. What’s weirder is that I also have Gnome installed (don’t ask) and I can run things at the proper refresh rate there. I’m using the Nvidia proprietary drivers (dkms with the Zen kernel) and I remember having problems with screen tearing on Firefox when I installed Qtile, so I had to add to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf the lines
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER"
EndSection
and I also have AllowGSYNCCompatible=On but from what I’ve seen this actually changes nothing, although it now says in the monitor section that
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Philips PHL 272V8"
HorizSync 85.0 - 85.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
so it actually sees the refresh rate, it seems. Setting the refresh-rate option manually on Picom also changes nothing, so I actually don’t know what else to do. Again, this is such a minor problem that I only ever noticed it when I tried to make a game run above 60 fps (without turning vsync off), but I wanted to fix it, if anyone could help me.
TL,DR: Cannot go above 60 fps specifically on Qtile with Picom either on or off, but can just fine on Gnome.