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5 years ago

Monitor goes into power saving mode when playing Apex...

ISSUE: Upon playing Apex Legends the game will inevitably cause my monitor to go into "power saving" mode and essentially power down the monitor. If I restart the monitor it will no longer pick up a ...

JoosyTheGoose

5 years ago

Hello, I'm gonna order another cable and see how it goes. Thanks for replying!

EA_Kent

Community Manager

5 years ago

@JoosyTheGoose

Sure thing! Let me know how it goes once you're able to try it out.

/Kent

JoosyTheGoose
5 years ago
Think the HDMI port coming from my laptop must be 1.0, because the monitor is completely locked to 60Hz when I use it even with a new 2.0 cable. Any way around that?
- EA_Kent
  Community Manager
  5 years ago
  @JoosyTheGoose
  
  As far as I know HDMI 1.0 only supports 60 Hz refresh rates. To use a higher refresh rate you would need to use HDMI 2.0 or Display Port.
  
  /Kent