Excessive RAM Usage

PC: Nitro5 Intel
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4060
RAM: 16 GB
Starting today OW2 has been just feeding itself RAM. On open it ticks immediately to 2 GB and slowly pushes itself up to 8+ GB. This is the first time I have seen it do this in 6 months of playing at high graphics quality settings. I tried lowering the graphics down to low to see if it would stem the flow of my RAM, but no after 1 quick play match the game becomes unplayable. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Edit: OW2 and Task Manger are the only things I have open.

My friend has experienced this too. High RAM and CPU usage to where the game is unplayable.

I’m not sure if this is in the same vein, but I’ve noticed a lot of chugging during random parts of the game on my own PC. So bad I thought I was running a bunch of programs by accident, but it was only Overwatch. Then things returned to normal, but would get random frame drops from a stable 130 fps to chugging on 40 fps.

I am using the Steam version, but I notice that assets do not load properly during the start of a match. Weapons will be invisible. Hands sometimes won’t load in. Bullet tracers don’t show up (but bullet hole textures will). It takes a couple seconds before everything is loaded in. But it was NEVER like this before this recent patch.

If I use the battlenet version, it’s much much much worse. I feel like I’m playing on a Switch because everyone is running around as a ball of light for the first 10-20 seconds of a game. (And same issues with first person weapons/hands not loading in immediately.)

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