VRR causing video flickering?

TheLegendOfMart · 23 Sep 2025 at 17:14

I have MSI MAG 321UP OLED.

I'm trying to watch streaming video in a browser and if I put a video fullscreen and open up the OSD you can see the display refresh freaking out but if I come out of fullscreen video the refresh locks at 165hz.

I tried disabling VRR in Windows graphics settings but its still doing it?

Baddass · 23 Sep 2025 at 18:17

Odd. What if you disable VRR / adaptive sync from the monitors OSD instead?

TheLegendOfMart · 23 Sep 2025 at 18:35

If I turn off adaptive sync on the monitor it stops with fullscreen video.

Baddass · 23 Sep 2025 at 22:22

TheLegendOfMart said:
If I turn off adaptive sync on the monitor it stops with fullscreen video.

Ok so that does suggest it’s caused by VRR. not sure why a full screen video would cause that unless it’s causing your GPU to think it’s a full screen game. Not something I’ve really looked into before, perhaps there’s some settings to avoid a video being detected in that way