I wouldn’t call that a solution. That’s what I would call a headache. I can’t believe this is still an issue since at least October 5th.
I managed to play this game when I first installed it for a good 3 hours with no problems, however next time I started the PC to play, I couldn’t even get into a match without the game Alt+F4’ing itself after a few minutes.
7 days since I posted and I’m still having the same issue, the game literally freezes and there’s nothing you can do about it. PLEASE FIX, BLIZZARD!
OMG blizzard pls i tried everhting now and still have the issues !!! it crashes 10 times in placements so i hope i dont get on bronze or i get banned i dont now !!! we do all the stuff what blizzard page said and have still issues so pls hel the people who paid 4 the game and cant play it.
Thanks a lot for your time, it’s been working quite nicely for a bit, had a few crashes here and there but usually fixed after rebooting the pc.
Still i’m wondering, is there any way to start the game with DirectX11 with that method by any chance ?
My laptop is getting old and dx11 definitely helps me having a tiny bit more FPS.
Kitty’s method allows to launch bnet as another user, which therefore launches OW as that user, but it doesn’t prevent the crashes for a reason i’m ignoring.
Didn’t do further testing, but it looks like launching the game without bnet is part of the equation.
This thread has 7.9K views but still hasnt been fixed. Shows how much they care
What about this one…
Do someone have Corsair Icue 4 Software downloaded? Im not sure if that might be causing something
Finally got it to work!! the initial one which @Duxe posted where you have to rename the file to “filename.bat” works beautifully , been playing for an hour, no crashes.
Just dont’ do what others are telling to , making net user account or whatever. This script of his already makes the user, it doesn’t remove it though you need to do it urself by going into “user accounts” in Windows settings - the only issue I am facing now is the game settings , they dont get saved. The second one @duxe posted on Github is just messed up , I dont know what was he thinking 
first one was simple and second one is just as difficult to understand. Can you please just get rid of everything else such as “drag the overwatch.exe to this window” i mean come on who needs that!!! I still couldn’t figure it out so i just deleted that whole part and simply kept the OWPATH= \game path where the exe is// funny thing is there still are some syntax errors there , like i have to put a forward slash in front of overwatch.exe in order for the script to work , and many minor stuff here and there which need to be fixed, and I still can’t get that powershell thing to run. It clearly seems it was rushed out terribly
Can you please make it simple? get rid of everything except for Launch and Game settings preservation? we dont need that CLEAR or CONFIG change or DRAGGING EXE’s To CMD window and everything else. Just the first script + settings pls if you read this. I am going to go look up how powershell works later, right now i guess i’ll just fire up the original “filename.bat” and run the game again and do the settings once more.
i have iCUE, synapse, steelseries GG, MSI mystic darn light, NZXT CAM and all the m0ronic stuff you could ever imagine they are running always and i also use MSI afterburner , so no its not because of any of that, game was working fine couple of days back and it should even now, its just this new anti cheat thing burfon or whatever which is not properly implemented, it gets paranoid whenever the PC does something in the background and triggers an anti-cheat thing which kicks you out.
Tried this but keeps saying “Access Denied” inside the cmd Prompt, so it never starts running the game. I run the bat as admin but still, same Error message.
Start-Process : This command cannot be executed due to the following error: Access denied.
In line:1 character:1
+ Start-Process -FilePath 'D:\Spiele\Overwatch\_retail_\Overwatch.exe' ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand
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Launched the bat as Admin Permissions but still get “Access Denied”. Kinda weird?
Start-Process : This command cannot be executed due to the following error: Access denied.
In line:1 character:1
+ Start-Process -FilePath 'D:\Spiele\Overwatch\_retail_\Overwatch.exe' ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand
The filepath where Overwatch is downloaded does not have permission
But how can I change that?
Go into overwatch folder and right click on the folder and then properties, go to security and set on full access
YUP thats the same powershell error iam getting!!! ok i’ll try giving full access to EVERYONE in that folder
Sorry to hear Overwatch still crashes after several minutes after you start playing it. We have received multiple reports of similar problems from players who have CPUs with 2 cores / 4 threads. So it is quite possible you are experiencing the same issue. It is currently under investigation and is being discussed in the following thread on our forums: [Main Thread] Game freezing with Intel i3 / Dual core CPUs - #553 by Jambrix
Hopefully it won’t take too long for our QA/Dev teams to identify and fix the problem. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
This is what support told me
I did the filename.bat command, it launches the game, asks for the email & password inside the game, but still crashes. anybody have the same problem?
I can’t even finish one game tonight. Goodness…
try using ggos, it workd for mE
Same problem here, still unplayable