Overwatch is quite stable on my system and I’ve not had any issues with crashing in a very long time.
Just now during a Quick Play game, though, the game exited to my desktop with no error message. The Windows Event Log doesn’t indicate any sort of application crash, either - the process seems to have ended ‘successfully’ as far as the operating system is concerned. I certainly didn’t alt+f4 or select any ‘Exit game’ option though.
I’m not particularly concerned, as this was a single occurrence, just leaving feedback in case this happens to be an issue with the 1.70 patch.
I just had this problem right now as well, just joined an arcade qp game in Watchpoint and was about to select my hero when the application closed, no error message or anything. Searched up to see if anything else ever had the same problem and seems like it’s an issue with the new patch
It is an issue with the new patch. I just had the same issue and I was playing in a Friendly Game (Custom Games). I never had any issue with Overwatch before. Its basically just something that needs to get patched
Same issue for me. Once on 3/1 in MH or QP (can’t recall which), and then once on 3/3 in Comp. It hasn’t happened since, but I have avoided playing Comp because of the possibility. Ran a “repair” on it today, so we’ll see… Any confirmation of a bug from Blizz?
This also just happened to me. 4 members of my team (including myself) crashed during a comp game at Busan Sanctuary. I had some friends I was playing with in a group crash a few days ago randomly as well.
I did the exact same thing, joined an already in progress game, picked tracer, and a minute later the game client closed, with no error message, or nothing in the event viewer for windows.
Hey guys, very important please be very specific to the behavior of your system when it crashed. If there are any error messages, please report those as well.
UPDATE Blizzard is aware of this issue and tracking reports in this thread:
Hi Wyoming, as we’ve noted, the interesting thing about this ‘crash’ is that there are no error messages. The game just closes. It doesn’t even register as an application crash as far as Windows is concerned.
It’s also difficult to replicate (it hasn’t happened to me again) so we can’t really give steps to do so.
Hi Everyone, the same thing happened to me, however, i was in a party of 3 and it happened to all of us at the same time. Me and 2 friends were on Competitive Ilios. Last point and was going well. One of our supports randomly leaves which we thought was odd and then he rejoined. In the next 2 minutes, my game closes without an error message. Speaking to my mates and their game closed also and we were all in a party. Annoying. I wonder how all of us just got closed at the exact same time.
Just had this happen to me and my party of 4 moments ago. The first guy that dropped, but he drops on occasion, so we thought it was just him. 2 minutes later, 2 of 3 of us exited to desktop with no error nor anything in the Windows logs. We both tried again, 2 minutes later, exited to desktop without error. Tried once more, 3rd guy exited to desktop without error alongside me.
The very same thing happened to me just now, and about a week ago as well. The first time, although first time for me (no error, just as if I pressed alt+F4) I didn’t think much of it, but this time I thought something must be wrong.
Can’t remember about last week but today I was a backfill in Junkertown, and about a minute in the game, this happened to me. Again, no error or anything.
