It just cost me entire Stadium match because every time I engaged into some more action on screen the game started lagging and dropping frames to literally unplayable levels like it was collapsing into itself. We’re talking like 15 fps or something stupid like that when I’d need high framerate the most. It was fine yesterday, but today game updated and it’s a total joke now. What the hell?
Given I’m running 5800X3D, 64GB RAM, RX 9070 XT on Seagate Firecuda 530 4TB I’d say the issue isn’t on my side because of hardware, especially since I can run far more demanding games without any issues what so ever.
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I have low end pc. I too get 15 fps when i play stadium. Other modes are fine though. Optimize it plz.
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I have the same problem. OW is runnung smoothly in quickplay/ranked 5v5 6v6, arcade, mystery heroes.
But it’s a whole other story in Stadium.
Mostly at the preparation phase of a round where you choose / buy abilities. It normalizies ±5 seconds to the start of a round.
In the middle of rounds I’d say for no reason at all frame drops down to center earth for like 5-8 seconds. No matter if there is a huge fight oder peaceful pushing with no action at all.
I like this mode. Very sadge
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I have the same issue with periodic stuttering. Usually it happens during the beginning of a round (after you exit the armory screen), pretty much consistently during killcams/potg replays and sometimes even mid-match.
When the stuttering occurs, the game constantly hangs for a millisecond which keeps going for like 5-10 seconds before it resolves itself. I even tried various things ingame in an attempt to resolve it like running the game with various fps caps and even uncapped, every graphics preset, both fullscreen and borderless windowed mode, vsync enabled/disabled etc but the issue keeps showing up.
I play the game on a 9800X3D with a 9070XT, so performance should not be an issue on my end and the fact that every other mode runs absolutely flawless leads me to believe that this might either be a server issue or something else entirely. Either way, this needs to be adressed immediately because these stutters cost me several fights until now, which is very frustrating.
Edit: I reinstalled the game since my post to see if that fixes anything. Sadly it didn’t help either.
Edit2: Played the game with a VPN (server location in Frankfurt and Berlin since I live in Germany) because I thought it could be a potential routing issue leading to network spikes of some sorts, but also to no avail. The stuttering keeps happening.
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Yep, in MangoHUD I can see weird spikes of “long frames” that only happen in Stadium mode. Something weird is happening in this mode. I can play at Epic with >60fps in any other mode, but Stadium stutters for me down to 30-40fps on all LOW, especially replays.
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yeah i have this Problem too and its only in stadium mode.
(its a strange stuttering / maybe a frame pacing issue)
My Specs: I9-13900KF / 32GB Ram / RTX 4090
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I’m having this same issue. The frames drop at certain times while playing Stadium. I don’t know if it’s a hero, map, mode, skin, ability, or some rendering issue that’s causing the frame rate to drop for a few seconds.
I don’t know if it’s related, but the killcams and POTG in Stadium mode look laggy from start to finish for me too.
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I’ve tried both, DX11 and DX12 and they both run equally bad, except that DX11 runs worse as is even when there are no problems. DX12 at least seems to run fast outside of those god awful insane framerate drops.
I’m having this issue too. It only happens in Stadium. There’s definitely some major performance issue with the mode. Specifically, I’ve noticed it when Juno’s orbs are flying toward me or while watching any POTG. Hopefully this can be resolved in the next patch. I’ve been playing Overwatch since launch and never have had performance issues until now. Graphics settings are mostly on Low.
I’ve used overlay monitoring to see what’s happening during the stuttering and framerate drop and the most bizarre thing is, even though this massive framerate drop is happening across several seconds, the framerate counter didn’t reflect on that. Game felt like 20 fps but the framerate counter showed 180 fps. My CPU (5800X3D) doesn’t even get loaded past like 30% so I have no clue what the F the game is calculating and where. On GPU?! I’ve ran far more demanding games with way more things going on and never had a problem.
Thank God! I thought this game mode was too much for my potato pc but since you guys with much better specs are also having issues, it gives me hope that it will be fixed soon
Anyone of you guys using GOG Galaxy client (running in the background) while playing Overwatch? Just checking one theory…
OW Actually runs smooth even in Total Mayhem and Workshop modes such as 500%, despite all the FX-madness going on.
Same error, the game will suddenly freeze, and I can’t even exit the application.
Never had the same experience before Stadium was released.
Glad its not just me! Theres a reddit with console players too, new and old gen, ALL having this problem. I hope this is fixed soon because i love stadium! And it could really help the game. But they have to figure this out asap.
I reduce render scale from 100 to 50. Even though it is blurry. It increased the fps 16 to 28. I play at 30 fps so i thought it would the fix but nope. Seems like problem is elsewhere. Both the fps & vram usage remain stable. There is a lot of shuttering especially when i’m in spawn. Funny thing is that there is no shuttering when i’m in combat and there is lot going.
Even when i’m replay. Initially there is shuttering but eventually it seems fine. I don’t what is going on with this mode. I hope they fix this issue soon.
I have a potato pc too. I hope it will be fixed soon too.
Nope. I remove all unnecessary services while playing.
It actually broke my GPU. My GPU went into emergency mode with the fan spinning full blast and is no longer recognized by my PC. Time for a new video card I guess…
I’ve been having stutters too. Only happens with OW and it happens randomly. Never in the same situation. Frustrating.
Same issue happening to me this all started when they did the pre install for season 16 back in season 15, I’m at a lost dont know what to do
Huge latency issues here. Quick Play, Arcade, Comp all latency is normal.
Hop into Stadium and latency goes to between 250-300ms.
Playing on NA Servers (Chicago). No explanation from Blizzard as to why.
OFC ZERO issues or latency connecting to the Shop. GG Blizz 
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