My game freezes after 5 some minutes. now i got banned from season. i never quit for purpose.
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Fortnite has the same exact problem for me and since there support team has time to respond to tickets they are trying to fix it for me on fortnite and the fix should work for overwatch. ima post the fix once they can figure it out.
The first time I got the -75% xp debuff, I just started playing with AI to test my fixes. Just so what your are describing wouldnt happen.
I have iCue and tried uninstalling it, it didnt help.
funny thing is there still are some syntax errors there , like i have to put a forward slash in front of overwatch.exe in order for the script to work
windows uses backslashes for paths.
Can you please make it simple? get rid of everything except for Launch and Game settings preservation?
the whole functionality of the script stays the same, i just added a first start experience.
and I still can’t get that powershell thing to run
that’s a user issue kind sir, the only reason i used powershell there was to run the game as another user without the annoying password prompt.
Can you please make it simple? get rid of everything except for Launch and Game settings preservation?
that’s literally what it is. just moved the settings to another file lol.
why don’t you stop being so entitled and do it yourself?
i shared a script completely free of charge and you’re complaining like if i were blizzard…
you can always use my old script i posted earlier or go to revisions in the gist to find the same thing.
Fun hypothesis on what causing this “crash” and why creating new user helps:
- Blizzard includes paranoid anti-cheat Byfron
- Anti-cheat is being tripped by literally breathing at it: RGB keyboard resident, NVidia Experence, discord overlay
- Anti-cheat marks your user as sus
- Anti-cheat intentionally crashes the game in 3-5 minutes
That’s why new user works, but only once
Long version:
I am also experiencing that problem and what striked me as odd is that I always get the same stacktrace:
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION executing 0xffffffffffffffff
which doesn’t look like an regular access violation at all. By doing some websearch I found that Byfron may indeed force crash
Again, it is only my speculations, but it has some confirmations. Plus since the launch has also several more bugs, this can be the reason for only part of the folks
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have you figured out a fix to this, I think I might be having the same issue because my specs are 100% enough I have a ryzen 5 5600x and a 3070
For anybody still experiencing this issue I can confirm it’s directly related to Byfron (the new anti-cheat component they implemented). This is why when the game “crashes” you don’t see any event in the windows event viewer, because the game isn’t actually “crashing”. Byfron is closing the game because something on your system triggered one of it’s many heuristics. I suspect in my case it’s happening because I use the IOT enterprise edition of Windows and something about this version Byfron doesn’t like.
I can only hope Blizzard works with their 3rd party vendor and actually tries to resolve these false positives.
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My game crashes for no reason and now i’m suspended for leaving, I’ve nerver left a single game on purpose… Blizzard fix your game, honestly.
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same dude I can’t even get it to launch. Crashes on startup
I knows whats the problem is
try set your Frame rate to “automatic” in setting → Video
this method fix me
Changing settings does not do anything. Performance is not the reason for crashes. I have a perfectly good system ryzen 5 3600 / 2070s which runs this game with ease. Never had this problem with OW, or OW2 beta…its literally happened since OW2 fully released. It is a problem on their end. I’ve monitored task manager and nothing is spiking. Clearly a database error or something with their new anticheat needing a few tweaks.
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Why the game Crashes for many of you:
Overwatch 2 uses a new anti-reverse engineering protection known as “Byfron.”
But because that protection is so new, it causes “false positives” for some users.The crash happens because “Byfron” thinks falsely you are “illegally” modifying the game and crashes your game after 1-5 minutes. Byfron will then ban your “SID” which is the main reason you can’t play anymore without crashing.
I know this sounds completely stupid to believe but this is actually the reason why I and 4 of my friends with the same issue weren’t able to play anymore, even tho we never cheated in this game.
So, how can you fix this:
You can read more about how to fix that at my thread here:
[FIX] Do this if your Game crashes
I hope I could help you with it, have fun playing
I am back with somewhat good news. I managed to make anticheat stop crashing (so far testing with the new account script, maybe it will also fix on my own - will update post).
Byfron Hyperion checks not only launched apps but also drivers! Drivers can be not only for hardware, but some for doing code at low level. Which means that even if the app isnt loaded, but driver is, Byfron will still be tripping.
I used driverview to see what’s running and uninstalled some apps and drivers that could potentially trip the bugger. Sadly I cant tell what exactly was the problem but what I had - noxplayer (VM of sorts), one app for digital signature and other.
Word of caution! I can not recommend this method as you can easily break your windows by messing with wrong drivers - BSOD and unrecoverable loops of death.
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Today I format my Windows, make a clean installation and reinstall Overwatch 2. Run with a fresh Windows user and the game is still crashing after a while. I’m struggling with this issue for an entire week, already tried absolutely everything that everyone suggested here and now I’m just uninstalling the game because Blizzard’s support for this is just crap.
if u find a way tell me
is this a perma fix or just temp?
also when you change it manually what do I change EDID to?
Creating a new windows user also changes your SID, and considering that the game will crash again on that newly created windows user as soon as you restart it, I am pretty sure that you’d have to change your SID every time before you want to play the game which is a massive waste of time and can’t be considered a solution to this issue.