This happens to me occasionally and it’s extremely annoying. My internet will, I guess, “blip” or something? Like get slow… and then my game starts rubberbanding and I DC.
Problem is, my internet for the rest of my stuff does not DC. Just the game, momentarily. I mean super briefly. This has cost me 50 SR a few times before, including just now.
Any suggestions here? I am wired via ethernet and my internet is totally fine except when it comes to lag in Blizzard games specifically.
I have a 1gbps optic fiber connection, I live close to the servers and my connection with the game is fine.
Except times when its not lol.
It’s happening to me, too, and I already called my ISP about it a few times. They keep telling me my internet is fine and that I need to troubleshoot Overwatch. At this point I’m ready to try just reinstalling the game.
Weird flex but ok.
It’s so annoying that it’s specifically for Blizz games. IDRC when it happens mid match but 3 or so times now it’s happened right at the start and the match gets cancelled.
I wish the match gave us ~10s to get back before it drops the whole thing.
Match getting canceled due to server error (Red icon) happens even to me so… I mean what do we expect from an Indie company?
I was just joking lol
Before my internet decided to stop providing a signal anywhere beyond 5 metres from the modem, I used to DC from this, too. The internet would drop for a second, and I’d immediately drop out of the game.
But unlike your issue, mine is a modem issue (Warning, Australians: DO NOT BUY THE TELSTRA SMART MODEM! ITS NAME IS A FARCE!) so hopefully Overwatch will run better if and when I finally muster up the courage to buy a booster…
Welcome to the life of everyone outside of the big bois (aka not NA or EU and MAYBE asia)
Tough luck for all of us
I would try to make sure you’re free of any spyware/viruses or anything that could affect your connection while you’re playing like updates to other programs. If that’s fine then make sure it’s nothing to do with your router. Maybe try direct connection if you haven’t. Also make sure all your drivers, including those for your NIC, are good.
Past that I don’t really know what could be the issue. For some reason I had a similar problem years ago and lowering my MTU helped. Just spitballing there.
I updated my network driver, wouldn’t know how to mess with the other stuff.
Thanks!
You might want to try to look up a guide or something at least for removing malware. That’s often the issue here and is especially likely if it’s not something you’ve ever even tried to cleaned for. Direct connection just means that you plug your computer’s ethernet directly into the wall rather than into the router which then goes into the wall. You might need to setup some kind of PPPOE username/password situation on your computer, but that’s generally simple.
The only other thing I can think of that might do it is if someone else is on your WIFI taking up bandwidth. If someone is streaming Netflix or what have you then that could definitely cause it. Anyway, best of luck. I know how rage inducing stuttering like that can be when it happens at important moments.
This is super rage inducing, and has been super annoying, I heard blizzard has enough money to fix the servers and improve them, but they’re just not doing it.
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