Strange FPS drop when fullscreening Games/Refresh Rate Weirdness?

Hi,
I have a HP Laptop with a 1050ti connected to a TV which I game on.
I am having weird issues where fullscreening games will drop the fps below the TV's selected refresh rate (60hz) and hover around 30-40fps. When entering windowed mode those games will lock back to 60fps.
The selected resolution and refresh rate is 1080p 60hz according to KDE settings.

Tested with PCSX2 and Antonblast.
In testufo.com, the page will report an fps similar to what I described, but when focusing on another window such as KDE Settings, the page will jump to a locked 60fps.

The NVIDIA drivers are on 575.64 and
rpm-ostree status
reports I am on 42.20250621.

This issue is plaguing many games I play and I can't find a solution when researching. I'm unsure if it's a KDE or Wayland issue with the NVIDIA GPU or a combination of them all.

I appreciate your assistance.
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