Hi,
I have a EVGA GTX 1080 TI, i7-7700, and MSI z270a carbon, and play Overwatch on all low settings. I have modified my nvidia control panel settings to mostly low and high performance, and overclocked my GPU with afterburner, but I still can’t consistantly hit 240 fps in game (for 240hz monitor). I’ve read other experiences people have had and they all say this setup can easily run 300 fps low settings, so does anyone have any ideas on what’s wrong?
Thanks
What’s your resolution settings? Your FPS is tied into your resolution for whatever dumb reason.
For some reason, the 10 series seems to have issues with overwatch. I upgraded from 980 to a 1080ti and got virtually no performance increase. I thought it was a CPU limitation, I have a 6700k, so I tried overclocking like mad but nothing helped. I finally fixed it this weekend though and I’m now pretty much pegged at 300fps on more or less high settings.
First, I’d undo the overclocking on your gpu, it won’t be necessary.
Next, update your drivers to the latest, do a clean install. Next turn off streaming in the blizzard control panel game settings menu(I think this is what did it for me). Also do the same in Windows 10, stupid game DVR. In Nvidia control panel, go to physx settings and select gtx 1080 as your processor. Under manage 3d settings, set power management mode to max performance.
I think that is all I did and it fixed my problem like a charm!
Thank you so much for the thoughtful response 
I definitely think the combination of reinstalling the drivers and disabling streaming helped, currently with my few minutes of testing sitting at almost 300 fps on high as well!
Hope it stays this way and thank you again!
Edit: it didnt seem to stay. Still cant stay at 240 unless theres like 6 people in the game 
No problem! Glad it worked for you! But yeah, I definitely think it’s mainly the streaming thing. I did all of the above at once this weekend and it was fixed so not sure on what the one thing was, but I was using like 3 year old drivers 
Boy, i’m jealous of your specs. I only run 960gtx with 30" 60hz monitor and legacy amd athlon II x3 cpu
what’s your ram speed, if you bought 3000mhz ram and you didn’t set the xmp profile you’re losing out on a lot of performance.
You have a dual-channel-ram 2400 or 2800 mhz? single-channel ram bottleneck the GPU.
Check your Drivers are the last ones
Check your options 1080p/240hz/ultra
Check dynamic rez is at 100% not 150% or 200%
Then im sure you can run at 240 i have i7 7700k and 1080 normal version and i can run with zero problems 220 - 238 FPS 95% of the time. Also i cap at 238 fps to avoid go over 240hz and get input lag
Also RIGHT-CILICK overwatch-exe and click REMOVE-FULL-SCREEN optimization that add lots of input lag
Make sure you’re not running the game at 200% render scale. I turned it off, but somehow while I was messing with shadow play an Nvidia settings it decided to optimize the game again and turned it on without me knowing.
You should be able to run at max settings at 100% render scale with 200+ fps.
Hey, I didnt know I could set that there. I changed it from 2100 to 3000 but there is barely a difference in game. Thanks for telling me about that though.
what’s your cpu, you could be cpu bottlenecking.
O no this is tragic!!! How can you play like that! That’s worse then Witcher 3 at 140fps, completely unplayable!!! Haha
Ya, definitely check your render scale… It butchers performance.
I have a 980 ti, 4770k @ 4.2Ghz, 16gb of 1866mhz DDR3 and I’m running OW with mixed settings at a mostly stable 154fps @ 1440p res… It does drop to around 110fps in big team fights with Moira ults and orbs flying around.
Just picked the low preset and made the following changes:
-Render scale to 100%
-Models on ultra
-MSAA on medium
-Shadows on high
-Lighting on high
-Texture filtering on epic
-Effects on medium
I know I could get way more stable by lowering AA, lighting and shadows but meh.
I have a 1080ti aswell and I get stable 300fps on medium settings, I don’t think your cpu bottlenecks anything, probably some software issue or you forgot to check some graphic settings.
run a http://www.userbenchmark.com/ and post the results.
Some programs can cause fps drops, for me firefox does it sometimes. Battle net app is known to cause drops some times as well. Windows default settings are terrible as well so make sure game bar and recording is turned off.