Extremely high CPU usage

I’ve played overwatch for more than a year now with the same PC, I have an i7-4790k @4.60Ghz, GTX 1080 @2088Mhz, 16Gb (8gb x 2) @2133Mhz and lately I’ve been experiencing extreme CPU usage, it’s been using 90% of my CPU just on Overwatch even if I change the affinity to only use 4 threads. It’s annoying and keeps making me CPU too hot.

i am getting extremely high cpu usage out of nowhere as well

I5-3330 + RTX2060 here. Everything on low, 1920x1080, borderless fullscreen, cant get stable 120 fps. Going to windowed mode ~1500x850 gives ~120-140 fps (drops to 50-60 in big fights) with 200fps lock and 85-90% cpu usage with 15-20% gpu usage. This isn’t funny, considering the fact that im playing with 160-180ms ping. Make your game playable.

Hey hey!

Please refrain from necro bumping really old posts.


Secondly, please take your issue to #technical-support since it’s related to the client.
Hold in mind that the I5 and RTX is a huge step between each other.
I’d think that would be a bottleneck.