I’ve been playing since 2016.
Back then, I was able to run OW on a potato with no graphics card, butter-smooth with no stuttering, no jelly effects, no “map-loading.”
Simply by using extremely-optimized settings on everything, not just the client.
Now that I got a good rig, I still run a clean, lean machine.
So I know what I’m doing. This bug is not from my end.
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Starting yesterday, something must’ve change with the netcode.
If you get lag while watching Replays, the client hangs.
Now normally you can tab out, or open TaskManager to kill the process.
But the client will not allow that now.
You are stuck on the client screen.
The only thing you can do is a hard reboot of your PC.
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update: looks like it can also trigger when you reach the end of the replay