Poor VRR performance with an external display

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I find the VRR with an external display on a Mac, especially when playing games, to be quite poor. It seems to be functioning poorly in general. not really smooth to say the least.
I tried with 2 different displays, the same. Two different Mac (Studio M2 max and MBP M2 Pro) connected to hdmi 2.1.

Frame rate of games are around 60 to 80 PFS usually. It's better without VRR than with it. (CP2077, Death stranding, Grid legends, Song of conquest etc.)


How do you configure your VRR usually in game? Do you activate V-sync in game?

Monitor: 4k OLED, VRR activated (48-240hz range).

VRR works 10x better on my PS5 Pro.

 

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I find the VRR with an external display on a Mac, especially when playing games, to be quite poor. It seems to be functioning poorly in general. not really smooth to say the least.
I tried with 2 different displays, the same. Two different Mac (Studio M2 max and MBP M2 Pro) connected to hdmi 2.1.

Frame rate of games are around 60 to 80 PFS usually. It's better without VRR than with it. (CP2077, Death stranding, Grid legends, Song of conquest etc.)


How do you configure your VRR usually in game? Do you activate V-sync in game?

Monitor: 4k OLED, VRR activated (48-240hz range).

VRR works 10x better on my PS5 Pro.

What do you mean by it is functioning poorly? VSync can be on or off, it isn't supposed to matter. If you are using any frame interpolation technologies vsync is usually disabled.