still no luck for me hope it works for others.
is it still crashing or what’s the problem?
yea still crashes after about 3 mins.
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Bruh blizzard not caring for the com is the most gaming company thing to do it’s been more than a week and still no fix
that’s interesting have you tried manually making a new user and playing on that?
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I’ve made an updated version of my script that now copies your overwatch config over and has a more user friendly setup process
it won’t let me post links but this one is significantly bigger and I don’t wanna post a wall of text like that one guy above, just remove the space =)
gist.github. com/duxeyo/bf8ae98965f4260616687c6bc987b893
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this game kicked me out to the desktop literally 2 minutes. blizzard please fix this ! i just wanna play this game with a peace full mind.
It isnt connecting unfortunetly. Just stuck at “connecting”…
so what is the aoter user password
still not working for me 3 mins on que and it crash again 
The password is whatever you set as password, you need to create the account first.
Open an command prompt as administrator and type:
net user USERNAME PASSWORD /add
net localgroup administrators USERNAME /add
Replace “username” and “password” with a name and password of your choosing.
then as Xinzzz wrote above, you can run overwatch with the “runas” command and never have to actually switch to that new user account.
You can simply add the “runas” command to your battle.net shortcut, be it on your desktop or in your startmenu, this way you don’t have to enter your overwatch login in overwatch since it can launch from battlenet.
For this, find the battle.net or overwatch launcher shortcut, right click → properties
Find the text field labled “Target”, it should contain the path to battle.net.
Paste this before the path, and add a whitespace between the end of your username and the beginning of the path that was already there:
runas /savecred /user:USERNAME
Where “USERNAME” is the username of the new user you created.
Mine still crashes unfortunately.
Why would creating a new user fix the crashing. This makes no sense lol.
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Now I’m suspended for 15 minutes and have time to rip on blizzard. How many crashes do I get before I get perma-banned from this crapshow of a buggy game launch? This is twice now, that the game has completely frozen since I started playing it a few days ago. The first time it froze was when I was previewing a skin in the hero gallery. Then again just now when a competitive match was loaded.
This is utter bull crap that you are enforcing such a long suspension on a unstable game, full of bugs.
I’ve been playing other games during this period with zero stability issues. I am running stock clocks on all of my hardware and all my temperature probes are reporting good temps. The rest of my system remains responsive and I can simply kill the game from task manager and re-launch. I also have not updated anything, OS or drivers on my system that could have caused a change in stability.
A crash a new program is acceptable, the competitive penalties for your shortcomings in testing and development is infuriating!
I still have 1:30 left in the suspension, so I’ll keep going… and give you even more of an eye full of my disdain for this lame and incredibly sloppy excuse of a game launch.
This is spaghetti code excuse of a “AAA” game is not the blizzard standard. It is really telling about the state of the team and lax-quality that has come about since jeff kaplan left. I hope your execs see this too and realize how big they messed up by rewriting the entire game just to put a number 2 on the logo and a few GUI updates, while the content all remains the same.
This is so half-baked it staggers the mind, it was a very bad idea to push this when it’s underlying engine won’t be needed until PvE content and skill trees are added. This is not the blizzard standard.
You wouldn’t even be reading this if you hadn’t imposed unfair penalties inside of a beta release game…and yes, this is still beta when compared to the traditional reputation of your company.
Ok guys here is the solution
i have tried this with a multiple friends that they got the same problem i am talking about FREEZING and specially CRASHING without error and it seems to work and been tested for 24 hours and they still can run the game , what happening is that we don’t know what is the causes of this issue even with high spec PC so definitely it’s not hardware issue it’s a program or a file or an extension that keep crashing the game and we can’t find it yet so what we did is a simple method that WINDOWS 10 provide it to us i am talking about Reinstall Windows
By Resetting PC and should not take more than 30 minutes, take a note that it will delete all files that didn’t come with windows 10 so if you want to save something save it before doing these steps :
NOTE : i have tried this with 4 of my friends and it worked it might not fix the issue you have but i will say %70 it will , also i am not technical i am just trying to solve this issue and it worked, you need to BACK UP your device before doing any reset to insure there is nothing going worng also i encourage you to watch YT tutorials
1- Type and search [Reset this PC] in the Windows search bar, then click [Open]
2- Click [Get started]
3- Select [Keep my files]
4- Select [Local reinstall]
5- Once the process is complete, Windows will show you a list of Applications that are going to be removed from your computer and it will also save a List of Removed Applications on your desktop
6- Follow the remaining on-screen instructions to complete the setup process.
Once the process is completed, your computer should be free of all glitches and problems that you were experiencing.
I wouldn’t call that a solution. That’s what I would call a headache. I can’t believe this is still an issue since at least October 5th.
I managed to play this game when I first installed it for a good 3 hours with no problems, however next time I started the PC to play, I couldn’t even get into a match without the game Alt+F4’ing itself after a few minutes.
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7 days since I posted and I’m still having the same issue, the game literally freezes and there’s nothing you can do about it. PLEASE FIX, BLIZZARD!
OMG blizzard pls i tried everhting now and still have the issues !!! it crashes 10 times in placements so i hope i dont get on bronze or i get banned i dont now !!! we do all the stuff what blizzard page said and have still issues so pls hel the people who paid 4 the game and cant play it.
Thanks a lot for your time, it’s been working quite nicely for a bit, had a few crashes here and there but usually fixed after rebooting the pc.
Still i’m wondering, is there any way to start the game with DirectX11 with that method by any chance ?
My laptop is getting old and dx11 definitely helps me having a tiny bit more FPS.
Kitty’s method allows to launch bnet as another user, which therefore launches OW as that user, but it doesn’t prevent the crashes for a reason i’m ignoring.
Didn’t do further testing, but it looks like launching the game without bnet is part of the equation.