If it shows 60fps with vsync, your monitor is effective at 60hz, not 144hz.

Try setting your desktop with the same resolution of the game and 144hz.

"Even with 60 FPS it feels a lot better than what I have with 125 FPS, I don't have tearing"

Yea you should not get tearing at 125fps with 144hz because here refesh rate is higher than fps. Hence you are probably not at 144hz at all. You can probably click your monitor buttons to bring up current refresh rate under settings>info whatever.

What is this command r_displayrefreshrate i dont even think thats a valid command or if so what is the difference between r_displayrefreshrate and r_displayrefresh ??? In my quake config I only use r_displayrefresh like this:

seta r_mode -1
seta r_displayrefresh 144
seta r_customwidth 1920
seta r_customheight 1080
seta com_maxfps 125

Edit: A quick glance around peoples configs on google for R_displayrefresh vs R_displayrefreshRATE seems to indicate most configs use R_displayrefresh as monitor Hz and use R_displayrefreshRATE = to ingame framerate. Still confused about this however.

Edit2: Confirming the command R_displayrefreshRATE does not exist in quake live. Comes up as Unknown CMD. It does however seem to exist in ET and COD. I get the impression it acts as a similar command to com_maxfps. Having it higher than com_maxfps could be causing issues? Try it at 125 or even 0

Yea you should not get tearing at 125fps with 144hz because here refesh rate is higher than fps

You do, because frames from GPU are out of sync with frames drawn on the monitor.
It's just less noticeable with higher fps/refresh rate.

vsync is different from freesync/g-sync.
Just don't use vsync with displayrefresh 144hz and maxfps 125, no sense

^ This too.

Dont use vsync at all. I wouldn't recommend Gsync, Freesync, Adaptive sync turned on either.

Shouldnt displayrefresh and maxfps be the same value?

Nope. Nobody has them the same value.

R_DisplayRefresh = Screen physical refresh rate
Com_maxfps = Ingame Framerate.

Q3 engine games run optimal (jump distance) at 125fps. Nobody' makes 125Hz monitors its usually 60, 75, 120, 144Hz

However as I posted above, the command r_displayrefreshRATE and Com_maxfps possibly should be the same value...

Ah yes did mean the commands, havnt played for years..

Vsync adds a lag

No. It adds at least three lags

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I've tried it with ET.. i had to set r_displayrefresh again and vid_restart for it to work after enabling vsync.

V_sync

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