Lagging Until Viewing Replays or Finishing First Few Rounds

Technical Support
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Hello, I have a problem where when I load into Overwatch 2 I experience a large amount of lag in my first few games or whilst watching my first Replay. After playing around 3-4 games or watching a few replays, I will stop lagging in my games for the rest of the experience until I close and open the game again.

Here are some examples of the issues I see when I first load a replay:

  • All people are invisible for 5-10 seconds, including the HUD when going to first-person spectate

  • After loading in, the sniper rifle of my Widowmaker has terrible textures until a little while later

  • Random stuttering for the first few seconds

  • After the problems listed above are solved after some time, it runs smoothly until the first battle between the teams where random stuttering happens again (Probably caused by ability usage).

My Specs:

Processor: Intel Core i7-8700
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
VRAM: 6044 MB
RAM: 8 GB
Available Storage: 1.13TB (Hard Disk Drive)
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Thank you for your time, I would be very grateful if I can get some help

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Are you using an actual HDD or an SSD? An HDD will be quite slow and could be the cause of this issue.

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I think so, according to the defrag options it says that I use a Hard Disk Drive.

Would buying an external SSD do anything, or does it have to be an internal one?

Thank you for coming here!

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An external one would be limited by the speed of your USB ports and motherboard, so it really depends on several factors. I also noticed you’re right at the minimum for RAM requirements. How old is the computer? Hard disk drives do lose their performance over time.

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It has been 4-5 years since the computer was first used, so it is somewhat old

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You may want to run a performance test on the overall system.

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After running the test, here are the results:

PC Status (Green): Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.

Processor (Green): With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.

Graphics (Yellow): 54.6% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)

Boot Drive (Red): The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.

Memory (Green): 8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.

OS Version (Green): Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
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Yeah the drive is probably the biggest hangup.

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