I’m getting periodic framerate drops in Cubase 10 on my new 1440p 144Hz screen (applying the latest update didn’t help). It’s like the mouse framerate drops to about 20fps. This only occurs in Cubase, and only on my main screen. It doesn’t happen on my secondary 60Hz screen which is used for the mixer, and it didn’t happen even when that screen used to be the main screen. The framerate drops for a few seconds, then goes back up, then down again, and so on. Sometimes the screen flickers a bit when it dips. Disabling the Steinberg Power Scheme makes it worse - it makes the framerate stay low almost all of the time. It doesn’t seem to happen in an empty project, but the project I’m testing now is only at 10% CPU usage and under 50% RAM.
PC is an i7 8700 with 64 gigs of RAM running Windows 10. GPU is a GTX 1060. Cubase is running off a Black Caviar HDD (with some libraries running off an SSD). Main screen is an AOC AGON AG271QX which works perfectly fine outside Cubase. Switching to 60Hz doesn’t fix it.
OK if I disable G-Sync this doesn’t occur anymore. There seems to be some issue between Cubase and G-Sync/Freesync supported monitors. Would still love to see this fixed though. Wouldn’t want to keep disabling/enabling G-Sync every time I switch between Cubase and games. I might try asking AOC support about this.
I think I can confirm this issue on mac as well.
When I run my Mojave (and HighSierra too) 4K60Hz the graphics is much slower than on 4K30Hz. (630 Intel, GT1030 Nvidia and RX580 AMD)
And it seems like the MCU also get a lower update frequency. So it seems that cubase do something weird. They need to look in to that since 120Hz is common this days for game pc’s. It really feels sluggish even if the CPU nor GPU is on high load.
I would like to confirm that I expirience the same problems. The screen (Samsung G7 32") with G-sync flickers when Cubase is opened up. When G-sync is turned off, the problem stops.
It would be nice if there could be a solution where we do not have to switch G-sync on and off between different sessions.
There’s not much point in capping the framerate if you’re fluctuating between 200 and 240.
If you’re fluctuating between 90 and 144, that’s a huge difference which has a noticeable effect on input lag and consistency, which does screw with muscle memory.
So yeah, there is a point in capping the framerate in this case. That’s the entire point of capping the framerate.
Same issues here on an 27" 2560x1440 144Hz screen. It took me a while to figure out that it actually is a frame drop. First I thought that my mouse has issues. But if your monitor supports showing the actual frame rate, then you will notice massive frame drops down to 30-40 fps which makes using Cubase impossible.
So deactivating G-Sync seems the solution, but a genaral fix would be way more better.
By the way, I also recognized this issue when using HitFilm, a video editing programm. So Cubase is not the only “one” who has to fix something.
No luck for me. It kinda works as g-sync is disabled when I launch Cubase (screen goes black, then back on, just like when I switch g-sync on/off globally, and no more flicker), but then it keeps doing that : enabling / disabling g-sync in a loop, with a black screen each time. in between Needless to say, it is not usable. It seems like some other app (or the system ? Windows 11) is reclaiming the focus and fighting with Cubase to enable g-sync while the Cubase nvidia setting struggles to disable it every time… Or maybe it is the strange Cubase approach of having some kind of a main part being full screen, and a project window nested inside it ? Any suggestions ?
Having this exact same problem. I’ve tried many combinations of settings, even with Nvidia Inspector and RivaTuner in the mix but no luck. It’s annoying having to switch the monitor sync on/off between gaming and Cubasing.
