Laptop is limiting my refresh rate to 60Hz in games but Windows is running in 144Hz

[Ivan Powell]

For some reason, my HP Victus 2024 with an AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS processor, RTX 4050 laptop GPU, and 16GB of ram, has been limiting the display to 60Hz even though I have it set to 144Hz. This just happened randomly and the laptop was working beforehand just fine. While scrolling through windows it is displaying 144Hz, but once I go into any game, it goes to 60Hz. I have set the games to uncapped refresh rate and I do not have v-sync on, but it still is limiting it to 60Hz. I have the laptop plugged in but still the same thing, so I know its not limiting the refresh rate because of saving battery

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