diff --git a/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11.cpp b/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11.cpp
index da27500995b..b79a1b9b8a9 100644
--- a/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11.cpp
@@ -1439,8 +1439,13 @@ QRhi::FrameOpResult QRhiD3D11::beginFrame(QRhiSwapChain *swapChain, QRhi::BeginF
     const int currentFrameSlot = swapChainD->currentFrameSlot;
 
     // if we have a waitable object, now is the time to wait on it
-    if (swapChainD->frameLatencyWaitableObject)
-        WaitForSingleObjectEx(swapChainD->frameLatencyWaitableObject, 1000, true);
+    if (swapChainD->frameLatencyWaitableObject) {
+        // only wait when endFrame() called Present(), otherwise this would become a 1 sec timeout
+        if (swapChainD->lastFrameLatencyWaitSlot != currentFrameSlot) {
+            WaitForSingleObjectEx(swapChainD->frameLatencyWaitableObject, 1000, true);
+            swapChainD->lastFrameLatencyWaitSlot = currentFrameSlot;
+        }
+    }
 
     swapChainD->cb.resetState();
 
@@ -5499,6 +5504,7 @@ bool QD3D11SwapChain::createOrResize()
     }
 
     currentFrameSlot = 0;
+    lastFrameLatencyWaitSlot = -1; // wait already in the first frame, as instructed in the dxgi docs
     frameCount = 0;
     ds = m_depthStencil ? QRHI_RES(QD3D11RenderBuffer, m_depthStencil) : nullptr;
 
diff --git a/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11_p.h b/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11_p.h
index 11927a5a3bb..48f99280c7a 100644
--- a/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/rhi/qrhid3d11_p.h
@@ -626,6 +626,7 @@ struct QD3D11SwapChain : public QRhiSwapChain
     QD3D11SwapChainTimestamps timestamps;
     int currentTimestampPairIndex = 0;
     HANDLE frameLatencyWaitableObject = nullptr;
+    int lastFrameLatencyWaitSlot = -1;
 };
 
 class QD3D11Adapter : public QRhiAdapter