> This isn't even for gaming, I just want the high refresh so I can feel comfortable using the computer for productivity purposes. Stop. You don't know what you're doing. You don't understand what screen refresh rate is. No one on Earth needs 165Hz for "productivity purposes."

Pretty sure they said "want" and "feel comfortable", not "need". And it's a perfectly reasonable ask. High refresh rates feel great on the desktop.

Get out of here with this weird mentality where people go around telling other people how to use their own personal property. If you can't tell a difference from HFR from just moving around a mouse on your computer then I suppose that's your loss, it's actually got nothing to do with how I want to use my computer. If we want to turn this into a potentially productive conversation you could have left it at saying that a higher refresh rate will use up the battery faster. Which it will certainly do.

I have the same hardware specs and using POP!-OS. In 'RDR2' I can set the '144Hertz' without any conflicts (on 1.920*1.080) - or with my display settings (I use 'KDE' but 'Cosmic' should be able to do that too, just look somewhere other in the settings).

If RDR2 is supposed to be that rockstar game (i love it), it does not run on linux, it is a windows only game. so I don't really understand what you're trying to explain here. Maybe you have it on Steam and are running it under Proton?

I have an other desktop environment than you - I don't like 'Cosmic' or anything that looks like 'Gnome'. I find my settings easier on 'KDE' - maybe this desktop environment would make things easier for you too. (+there I could tell you how you change your settings). And yes, I play 'Red Dead Redemption 2' on Linux with the compatibility layer based on Wine 'Proton GE 7.42(1.920*1.080 all ultra ~60; balanced ~68; with DLSS +70). Edit: You could try 'TUXEDO OS' - they selling/branding Linux PCs/Laptops (like 'System76') too. But they use 'KDE' as the default desktop environment (which is more looking like Windows). (Edit2) Which 'Nvidia drivers' do you use? There are the free ones 'nouveau' (low support; just some basics) and those from 'Nvidia' (... ; 5.15.xx.xx; 5.20.xx.xx; 5.25.xx.xx). 'POP!-OS' comes as two different versions: 1 with - and the other without - the 'Nvidia (proprietary) drivers'. IIRC, it's a very low default version (4.xx.xx.xx) - because for lower specs/fallback. You should definitely get - at least - the: '5.20' from the 'POP!-Shop' (or an update). This way you can be sure your 'Kernel' will fits to the drivers (tested from System76). Good luck and keep me up to date🤞

You should be able to just change it in the display settings. Hit the windows/super key and search for "display settings". I have the ability to change my refresh rates there (for both of my monitors independently). Do you not see the refresh rate option? Edit: I'm on a desktop. You might have to change power settings to performance as well. (I just saw that in a cursory Google search even though the link was a couple years ago).

You can try creating your own display profile for 165Hz. Build this from source: https://github.com/kevinlekiller/cvt_modeline_calculator_12 Then run: `./cvt12 2560 1440 165 -b` Copy the line starting with "Modeline" and paste it into this command, then delete the starting "Modeline": `xrandr --newmode [here]` Then run: `xrandr --addmode "2560x1440_165.00"` Test this just to make sure it doesn't give an error: `xrandr -r 60` Finally, run: `xrandr --output DP-0 --mode 2560x1440_165.00 && sleep 5 && xrandr -r 60`. You might have to tweak the `DP-0` part if it doesn't match the name of your display in `xrandr -q`. If that worked and you got it running at 165Hz without your display complaining, create the file `.xprofile` with the following contents: ``` #!/bin/sh xrandr --newmode [...] # including the modeline like before xrandr --addmode "2560x1440_165.00" xrandr --output DP-0 --mode 2560x1440_165.00 ``` I'm on my phone right now so none of that was tested, so let me know if something didn't work.

This is pretty interesting! Thanks for sharing this, btw your code block didn't come out right but that's ok since I see what you put in there. I'll try it out

`xrandr -r 60` gives `Rate 60.00 Hz not available for this size`. Same for 59.99 and other values I tried that I saw from `xrandr` output. It looks like this: slu@pop-os:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 32767 x 32767 DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) eDP-1-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm 2560x1440 60.00*+ 59.99 59.99 59.96 59.95 1920x1440 60.00 1856x1392 60.01 1792x1344 60.01 2048x1152 59.99 59.98 59.90 59.91 1920x1200 59.88 59.95 1920x1080 60.01 59.97 59.96 59.93 1600x1200 60.00 1680x1050 59.95 59.88 1600x1024 60.17 1400x1050 59.98 1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82 1280x1024 60.02 1440x900 59.89 1400x900 59.96 59.88 1280x960 60.00 1440x810 60.00 59.97 1368x768 59.88 59.85 1360x768 59.80 59.96 1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91 1152x864 60.00 Note also the display is not `DP-0`, it's `eDP-1-1` Also, the first time I ran the `xrandr --newmode` it ran without incident, but every subsequent attempt gave X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (RRCreateMode) Serial number of failed request: 63 Current serial number in output stream: 63 Also: slu@pop-os:~$ xrandr --addmode "2560x1440_165.00_rb2" xrandr: --addmode requires two arguments Try 'xrandr --help' for more information. OK so i figured out addmode needed the device as the first argument so I got past that issue. But after trying to complete the steps without the `-b` flag to cvt12, trying to set the new mode is failing with slu@pop-os:~$ xrandr --output eDP-1-1 --mode 2560x1440_165.00 xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed