Before S16 update, my FPS floated comfortably around 240. Some slight drops when there were lots of effects on screen, but it played fine.
Now, no matter what gamemode I play, My FPS is all over the place. In one match it might be normal, the next it might hover around 200, and in one match it was only 120ish. This also comes with a lot of stuttering. Admittedly Stadium is where it is the worst, but I would expect this given the gamemode is brand new and full of bugs anyway.
I checked my graphics settings to make sure nothing had been changed - It hasnāt, I know this for sure as I keep screenshots just in case it were to be accidently reset (as sometimes happens, due to another glitch I presume.) I have not adjusted any settings on Windows 11 or NVidia control panel afaik. I play with most settings turned to low, so itās not like I should be struggling with performance.
Itās bad to the point I am giving up and playing other games. Is anyone else experiencing this specific problem?
EDIT: adjusted model detail from āmediumā to ālowā and this seems to have fixed it, at the cost of my game looking much worse. Again, I have never had to do this before to get OW2 running optimally.
2nd EDIT: Correction to my last edit. Running on model detail at low HELPS, but has not fixed it by any metric. Still getting massive FPS drops during big teamfights that I was not getting prior to S16 update, around 40-50fps lower.
Having the same issue. Changing settings seemed to help it not occur as much(?), but the stutters/fps drops are still there. Used to be comfortably hovering around 250+. Thermals are fine, no driver issues, no updates before the issue started, no throttling, no indication whatsoever that the hardware isnāt keeping up. No logs anywhere indicating system instability/issues.
The FPS drops might seem to be tied to characters that have a lot of particle effects/effects in general (possibly Juno and Freja, among others), and seems to get worse the longer OW is running, but these might be red herrings.
Same here, I used to average 144 fps solid on low (capped to 144) before stadium patch, probably would average ~160 if i uncapped it.
Now iām getting 95-140 fps and huge spikes and input lags since stadium came out, even in QP. I āaverageā 130 fps which is still a dropoff from 144 but its far worse because i used to go from stable 144 always to now seeing random 140->99fps spikes, itās been terrible. My game even froze near the end of a QP game which never happened before.
Itās not my machine, itās the patch. The original stadium patch and every micropatch after it have caused massive performance issues, even outside of stadium mode. I havenāt even opened stadium mode up and I still lag in QP games.