Entire game runs incredibly slow

I have what would be considered a good gaming PC. 1080 ti graphics card and have never had any trouble playing OW at the highest settings. Recently, my game has been rendered unplayable because everything is loading ridiculously slowly. My game takes 5 minutes to launch (usually takes about 30 seconds), there is a large delay when pressing keys such as Esc, and I’m kicked from every game for inactivity because of how long it takes to load. Every other game on my computer is running perfectly and smoothly, my internet is fine, it only seems to be OW which is having trouble. Anyone else having/had this problem? Any tips? I was planning on grinding some comp with my friend this evening but can’t anymore :frowning:

These standard tips can help you:

  • Check how you have your computer connected to your monitor. Some HDMI cables may not perform faster than 60 FPS, also devices that connect through a USB Type-C cable will not perform correctly with high-rendered games like Overwatch.
  • Reset Overwatch’s Video Settings
  • Run a Scan and Repair of Overwatch
  • If a Scan and Repair fails, try Uninstalling and Reinstalling the game client
  • Update your graphic card driver.
  • Reset your graphic card driver settings., then make sure that your Graphic Card Driver control panel is configured correctly for Overwatch. This includes setting Overwatch at Maximum Performance (not optimal power) for Power Management and making sure it set to run on the graphics card and not the motherboard chipset.
  • In drastic cases you may need to reinstall the driver and update to the most recent driver for your card. Remember to use Display Driver Uninstaller to completely clean out your old driver. Then download the most recent NVidia or AMD for your system.
  • There have been other threads reporting that updating your system BIOS can help with some performance issues with recent patches. Please be careful if you choose to update your BIOS and look up your motherboard’s instructions on how to do this.

Also here are advanced tips I have written in Overwatch’s Tech Support forum that maximize your FPS performance in the game.