The OMEN 27i IPS pumps brightness when its refresh swings into the low
VRR range during low-framerate content (game cutscenes), producing a
~20Hz flicker that compounds over a session until a reboot. GPU health
is clean (no Xid/ECC/thermal); pinning fixed 165Hz eliminates it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
