Ranked, game was in its last seconds before ending and I get a crash with OW telling me a software may be recording something that conflicts with OW while I don’t have anything that records. I immediately restart the game and apparently the game has already ended as it was in its last seconds. All this was in a span of 20 seconds. And now im suspended? What is this garbage? Your game crashes cause as usual your brought up a product which is barely tested and now you punish me for this crap? Even though I was technically back in the game 20 seconds later? Jesus Christ what a MESS.
Comp is already a complete disaster cause of your matchmaking but surely you have to punish a player that was playing the whole game and got a crash cause of your buggy code in the last seconds.
My device works perfectly fine maybe read my post again. If OW tells me in an error that something records and there clearly isn’t anything its the game being coded like trash.
You also ignored the fact that normally you can easily rejoin a match in 2 min time however if it happens right at the end of the match you get leaver penalty anyways even if you come online after 20 sec. So maybe don’t post if you just wanna troll.
As I have already said. There is no program recoding anything. I don’t install random trash on my PC and am quite capable of checking Task Manager etc. When I game I have only my browser open and it never happened since release except now. WC3 Reforged is the same. Coded like trash and neglected thats why it crashes often for many people. Not hard to understand.
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard stuff like this lol…
I think I’ve had maybe a dozen client crashes with Blizzard games in the past ~20 years?
The truth is that your system likely has something going on with it or you’ve done some paranoid cleaning/debloating/tweaking. Anticheat engines are picky. Even simple things like wiping the system/drive logs are enough to trip some of them, like VAC with Valve games.
its possible the xbox game bar somehow started recording of which the game didnt like or a piece of software was causing a conflict as ive never had that happen to me
Cool story man, never had any issues in OW1 ever. Considering how bad blizzards quality has gotten just as seen with OW2 it is likely that blizzards failed bigtime. You also posted the wrong error, it was about something accessing the records folder or some crap not streaming, overlay, etc.
The issue still remains that you shouldn’t get suspended for this if you can technically rejoin after 20 sec but the game has ended. Also if there is something inherently wrong like anti cheat I wouldn’t be able to play from the beginning anyhow. As I said this is the first time the error accured since OW2 launch. But I had a few other random errors when playing Kiriko so far. Kind of obvious its on blizzards end.
“An external program has caused Overwatch to crash. Please add Overwatch to your anti-virus exception list and close any streaming, recording, or overlay software.”
Because you said:
“OW telling me a software may be recording something that conflicts with OW while I don’t have anything that records”
Get a screenshot the next time it happens then, if you’re claiming it was a different error.
Nope, not how they work. Sometimes they wait minutes, to hours, to days, to weeks. They don’t perform heavy and complex operations every single frame of the game being rendered. That would tax performance too much. They pop on at random intervals.
Prime example: I brought up Valve’s VAC. Years back, someone I knew kept getting randomly soft banned from playing, with some VAC error and it would take them hours to days to be able to play again. No actual “ban” ban or anything, just unable to authenticate, which meant they couldn’t queue up for stuff. Turned out, they were using CCleaner and one of the things it was cleaning was something that VAC needed. If I recall correctly, it was purging either the USN Journal, which keeps track of every file change on your PC, or some other system logs. Things that cheat programs might mess with, to hide themselves or disguise themselves as legit drivers.
But it didn’t softban him immediately after cleaning. Sometimes, he’d go a whole day before it would kick him mid-match. After he stopped using the program, he never had the issue again.
Battlenet scans those files too. When you go to close out of the launcher, you’ll notice it lingers in the task manager for another 5-10 seconds. If you check the resource monitor, you’ll see it’s scanning a bunch of logs and system files as well.
You’ll see stuff like:
$BitMap
$Deleted
$UsnJrnl
$LogFile
$Mft
being scanned by either agent.exe or system. If anything is clearing them or doing fishy things to them, most anticheat engines will boot you or throw an error. To not directly call you out on it, because there are legitimate security reasons to sometimes purge logs like these, they will just say there’s something wrong with your system or that an antivirus is screwing with something and other generic things to try to rule out.
Highly doubt it. Millions of gamers use it for recording and clips.