Screen "flickering" on 144hz monitor?

So I just ordered parts for a new PC build, and my monitor arrived before the rest of the components. It's an ASUS VG248 144hz 1080p monitor.

I decided to hook it up to my laptop via HDMI to try it out. it works good, but I noticed when I play certain games that the screen will "flicker" a lot. What I mean by flicker is that everything on the screen seems to be jittering up and down really fast. Now keep in mind that the laptop I'm running only has a GT 650M chip, so all my graphics settings are low-medium. But I noticed that in BeamNG Drive and Battlefield 4 that the screen flickers and stutters a lot in menus and during gameplay. Especially in Battlefield 4, the system performance test says I'm running at 80FPS, but the gameplay is really choppy. But when I played Need for Speed Most Wanted and Brutal Doom, there's no flickering and everything works fine.

I'm just wondering if I should be worried about this? I don't have any problems like this on the laptop display. I'm wondering if it might be anti aliasing, or possibly just the HDMI connection? My new PC build is gonna include a 980Ti connected through DVI-D to support the 144hz, and my games will be run maxed out for the most part. After spending thousands on a PC I don't want everything to be flickering.