Some game advice for those with 120hz laptops...

If you find some games crashing on load, on in-game system settings, or refusing to run full screen, please check if your monitor has a 60hz refresh rate option. If it does not, this may be the cause of the problem, as some games EXPECT 60hz to exist. Two of the most infamous games are Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2. If 60hz is missing from the EDID, Dark souls may crash on PC settings or new/load game, and Dark souls 2 may white screen (the white screen issue was fixed some time ago, instead the game simply will run windowed and remain windowed).

To fix this issue, you MUST use ToastyX Custom Resolution Utility and just add an Automatic Timings 60hz native resolution, then run the driver restarter.

This fixes everything. It's unknown if Gsync will work with this though; if you need Gsync, and you run into issues, just delete the refresh rate and restart the driver.

90% of you would probably use the Nvidia Control Panel and create a 60hz resolution with the NVCP. While the resolution "works", this will HARD LOCK Dark souls, and it will still crash on PC settings. Why? Because the Nvidia custom resolution utility does NOT create true EDID overrides. Rather it creates "GPU scaled" resolutions and then reports them to the driver. This doesn't play nice with Dark souls. This may help with other games that are locked to 60hz as well.

 

Good finding. I actually haven't tried those specific games, but I remember them having specific issues with 60hz displays. Do you know if DS3 has the same issue? I might try it soon, seeing as they updated it with all the DLC now, but I finished the vanilla game with my GT80. Time to get the GT73 work its legs at 4K

 

I don't think dark souls 3 is locked to 60hz. Then again I haven't tried it yet. Took forever to get my entire steam library on my GT72VR 7RE.

I think the only laptops that require you to manually do an EDID override for 60hz are the ones that have optimus disabled (like the GT72VR). If the iGPU is available, 60hz is always there by default.

This edit also allows you to run other 60hz games full screen like Ultimate marvel vs Capcom 3, older versions of street fighter 4, etc.

 

I played dark souls 3 on my GT80 with an overclocked screen to 100hz, and so far only dark souls 3 was the only game that never really went above 60hz. I assumed it was locked as well.