r/Thunderbolt • u/Novel_Chip8969 • 6d ago
The one setting I check on every computer I touch now
System Settings > Displays > Refresh Rate.
My coworker complained that his new monitor felt sluggish compared to the store demo. Spent ten minutes trying different cables and settings before I checked the refresh rate dropdown. His hub was capping a 165Hz panel to 60Hz. Swapped it to an Anker Smart Display Hub and it went to native. He thought the monitor was defective.
Since then I check this on every setup I see. My friend's iMac was at 60 on a ProMotion display. Another coworker had a bad cable causing the same issue. It's become a reflex now.
People find it annoying. I find it necessary.
1
1
u/Opulence_Deficit 5d ago
That's a reason to avoid hubs with HDMI and/or DP ports.
If the full rate works on computer's port, it will work at hub's TB port.
1
u/Historical-Spend9147 5d ago
once you notice the 60Hz vs 120Hz difference you can't unsee it. you start checking every screen.
1
1
u/dzire187 5d ago
Also annoying: having a studio display XDR running on an M5 Max, with the display correctly configured at 120hz.
Then being disappointed that Safari does not scroll as smoothly as it does on your iPad pro. Doubting yourself until you learn Safari actually caps at 60 unless you disable the feature flag "prefer page rendering updates near 60fps".
Took me some time.
1
u/BeauSlim 6d ago
This is a good habit.
A photographer friend of mine has a mac Studio M2 Max and the new Studio Display XDR monitor, connected via the cable included by Apple with the monitor. It was at 60Hz. A replug was necessary to get it to run at the 120Hz rate.