Stuttering cursor in Windows desktop on external displays

Framework Laptop 13
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Ryzen 5 7640U
Windows 11
AMD Adrenalin 24.1.1
Driver Version: 31.0.24002.92
External display: Lenovo Lenovo G27q-20 via DisplayPort expansion card.

I’ve been having a weird issue with the cursor in the Windows 11 desktop, that only occurs on external displays. I thought it was only me until I stumbled across this Reddit post with people experiencing the same problem on Thinkpads with these recent AMD processors.

Until then I’d found no mention of my issue anywhere.

When moving the cursor around the desktop it will “catch” against the edge of elements (icons, start menu, taskbar buttons) as it moves. This doesn’t happen within applications. It only seems to be with items that have a “hover” mask that changes the appearance when the cursor moves over it.

It only happens on external displays - the problem doesn’t arise on the laptop display.
It happens when using the inbuilt touchpad or external mice too, so it appears to be limited to just external displays, regardless of input method.

I don’t see this in Ubuntu.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

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Adding in a couple of suggested links to other forum posts on similar issues.

Fedora - Random screen flickering on T14s Gen 3 AMD in Fedora 37

Windows - T14s Gen4 AMD - Display driver lag, mouse cursor stuttering, YouTube dropping frames

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Late to the party but…
FW13
Ryzen 7640U with Radeon 760M iGPU
Windows 11 pro - clean install
AMD Adrenalin 24.7.1 (latest)
Latest drivers, firmware and windows updates.
External display - about 6 different models i have tried via HDMI expansion card, USB-C hub with HDMI and native USB-C input, ranging from cheap 1080p to expensive 4k.

And i’m facing the same problem as the original poster.

I have issues with VLC playback and cursor lagging/skipping when moving over various UI elements like edge of windows, icons and buttons and dragging windows.
This happens more if the external monitor is selected as primary.

I have tried many things, but only disabling PSR via registry helped.

Also i’m not able to enable AMD FreeSync. With all (AMD FS capable) monitors i tried it simply says “Not supported” in the Adrenalin.

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I missed this and just posted about the same thing here:

https://community.frame.work/t/possible-firmware-issue-with-amd-framework-13-mouse-screen-latency-lag-freezing/55532/2

It is pretty frustrating