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IDontUseArchBtw

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Registered: 2026-08-24

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Lag / fps capped when recording

Hello arch community, i got an annoying issue when recording / streaming either on obs or discord or anything literally it feels like my monitor got capped at 60hz? (i have 165hz) like in game frames is 200 or more but it jus laggy asf (even in desktop or on light use)

setup : r5 5600g, dgpu is used for vfio so im not really using it apart from vm, Hyprland 0.56.2, and wf-recorder,

Thank you for your help!

seth

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Re: Lag / fps capped when recording

60Hz won't feel "laggy", for a brief test to add some hard data to all those feelings see https://frameratetest.com/ or https://testufo.com/
You also want to inquire the situation on other display servers, namely weston (wayland reference compositor) and X11 (because screenrecording on wayland sucks) so we know whether the problem relates to that or the hardware.

For clarification: the internal FPS counter of game™ reports that it renders at 200 fps but the rendered output doesn't "feel" like that (and also substantially lower than 100Hz)?
Does this also affect the mouse cursor?

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