So been playing a lot less lately, and when I play alone I’m mostly playing around with what background applications I do have open to test what could be affecting them. Discord has been a funny one since when I’ve been playing with some friends they could hear me lag when I had the drops. Since I’ve been complaining a lot about how these have been affecting them in game, I’ve been calling out when my game has stuttered and they can hear me beforehand “lag”. Now, this at first was interesting as today I found if I’m listing to music on my browser (YouTube, Soundcloud) that when my frames drop, the music also lags. Like if my whole PC is lagging at the same time, hence if I’m talking I cut up on the mic when my frames drop.
I also found out the following from this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/7uf3xa/performanceframerate_issues_on_pc_check_these_3/
I was searching for anything that might help cut down the amount I’m getting, and found that changing the setting so that the battlenet launcher is closed when the game is launched removes 90% of the frame drops I’ve been having. I started getting these issues when the OWL came out… and since there is a tab on the launcher with the webpage for the OWL…
Even with all of my applications closed, I still have the fps drops that’s messing with my mouse input. If anyone hasn’t tried this, have a test if this works for them, or at least does the same and gets rid of the frequency of drops as it has done for me.
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Do you exit BattleNet launcher or just close it on X ?
I’ve set it so it automatically closes when I launch Overwatch. Now something I need to test because I’ve just had a Driver update on my graphics card, and my issues did suddenly disappear. So I’m gonna see how things go for the next 24 hours on here. If this has been fixed by one driver update then I have no idea why this happens
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In BlizardNet App, In general tab, I set the option “When I launch a game” to “Exit BattleNet completely” and I could not see any improvements unfortunately even after 5 hours of straight gaming.
I got a notification for a new driver too, I will update and post results.
It is very hilarious that Blizzard does not really care about this, or at least they show zero response about it. There was once a post from somebody that is maybe working for Blizzard, but that is it. No real help whatsoever.
How the hell are we going to solve this without Blizzards help?
And it is always the same: Post DxDiag and/or MSInfo and/or screenshots about ingame NeTGraph and after that no respond, no contact from support or anybody from Blizzard asking maybe additional info, nothing.
Its like they refuse to believe that there is a problem.
Its like they are Microsoft…
Too bad they will most likely not give me my money back if I ask…
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Also having FPS issues but i have nailed it down to specific Nvidia drivers which have been causing me problems.
390.65 is the latest driver where i dont have any FPS issues in Overwatch.
Any driver newer than 390.65 and i have obvious issues.
My rig consists of Windows 10, i7 5930k, 2x GTX Titan X in SLI, 32GB 3200Mhz RAM, Overwatch is installed on an SSD and i play it at 1440p
I play on a 144hz monitor with 144fps being easily achievable during game play and has been since i purchased the game when it was first released. Consistent rock solid 144fps.
Since Nvidia drivers 390.77 i cannot reach 144fps anymore with the same settings. I range between 110-127fps. sometimes it reaches to 130fps but very rarely as it mostly hangs at 127fps.
Keep in mind that i have plenty of CPU and GPU headroom to run this game at 144fps at 1440p. So now that i struggle to hit 130fps shows that something is terribly wrong as i have lost around 30fps worth of performance in Overwatch.
If i roll back to drivers 390.65 im back to rock solid 144fps.
Hope this helps in getting to the bottom of this ongoing issue.
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Thank you for the info!
Will test this driver again and post results.
Google “nVidia spectre”
The timing aligns pretty closely with 390.65. Obviously it could be a coincidence but meltdown/spectre patches have been rolling out to Windows as well I think.
completely forgot about spectre patches…
I have done some more testing though using the latest Nvidia 391.01 drivers.
Stock CPU (3.5Ghz) and GPU (1000Mhz) clocks - 125-130fps
Overclocked CPU (4.5Ghz) and GPU (1350Mhz) - 125-130fps
The only difference that i could see was that i now hit 130fps and it stays locked at that fps for a lot longer. fps still bounces around but not quite as much.
BUT in saying that it looks like i am hitting a wall at 130fps. It almost feels like the game has been capped at that fps as it wont go any higher than that, not even 1 extra fps.
If the spectre patches were the cause of my issues then i would have assumed that adding 1Ghz overclock to my CPU as well as 350Mhz overclock to my GPU in SLI would have got me back to 144fps or at least show an improvement, maybe 135fps?
But stock clocks vs overclocked show very little difference if any.
edit-- more testing.
i run overwatch at 1440p but with 150% resolution scale.
I dropped this to 100% resolution scale and was still only getting 130fps.
So thats a 50% reduction in resolution with my overclocks and i still couldnt manage 1 extra fps gain.
something definitely isnt right…
Overwatch keeps getting deadlock on my cpu and i think that is the main issue as of right now. Nothing else makes sense. speeding up hardware with same fps or lowering graphic setting and same fps makes sense with deadlocks. How can we get attention and ask if that is the issue though is another problem.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the 300 fps cap is what task manager is reporting as a deadlock.
This is not how that task manager function was intended to be used or interpreted.
I assure you that spectre 100% will not change your gaming experience and if it does, it will be around 1%-5%.
I still did not have the chance to test the 390.65 driver and the new one 391.01.
Count me in as someone also having this issue since Moira patch. Literally nothing has changed on my end. Same PC, same settings, same temperature, drivers updated/turned back, etc. I need a solution to this nonsense. I’ve tried everything that’s been suggested by Blue posts and nothing has worked.
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okay my graphics card is gtx 965m and it was the nvidia driver I rolled back the issue doesn’t resolve permanently so I just rinse and repeat with the rollback. I’m seeing if the new geforce update helps
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Bump.
I’m having this issue too and blizzard keeps ignoring us…
System specs:
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Radeon Software Version - 18.2.1
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Radeon Software Edition - Adrenalin
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Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon™ R5 Graphics
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Memory Size - 1024 MB
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Memory Type - DDR3
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Core Clock - 800 MHz
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Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit)
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System Memory - 8 GB
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CPU Type - AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
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Radeon Settings Version - 2018.0131.1849.33856
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Driver Packaging Version - 17.50.17.03-180131a-323831C-RadeonSoftwareAdrenalin
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Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1634
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Direct3D® Version - 9.14.10.01316
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OpenGL® Version - 6.14.10.13506
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OpenCL™ Version - 23.20.15017.3010
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AMD Mantle Version - 9.1.10.0237
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AMD Mantle API Version - 102400
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AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.1.6
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Vulkan™ Driver Version - 2.0.1
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Vulkan™ API Version - 1.0.65
This game is turning into a mess, when is the game getting a perfomance update???
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Yes, FPS just goes really bad for no reason, doesn’t matter your system or what settings you’re playing on. I am on an i5 6400 and Rx480 8gb ram and normally play at 120 locked frames but since the FPS dips tried to put at 100, 75 and even 60 where it still dips to 50. So not much we can do, except wait for Blizzard to fix their game. The worst part is I haven’t seen any response from Blizzard yet acknowledging this issue. I hope they are at least trying to fix it.
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i used to be able to run overwatch at around 150 fps no problem
CPU: i7-7700HQ Quad Core (6MB Cache, up to 3.8 GHz)
RAM: 16GB, DDR4, 2400MHz
GFX: GeForce GTX 1060
Storage: 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (Boot) + 1TB 5400RPM Hard Drive (Storage)
i stopped playing for a few weeks, started playing again 2 days ago and i’ve been randomly going from 150 fps to 45 fps and worse for about 20-30 seconds, then it goes back up and just randomly dips back down again, super frustrating.
i’ve looked through so many threads and tried so many things like rolling back drivers and everything else suggested. i did not do anything new with my computer during those few weeks of no overwatch.
please help blizzard
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Having the same issues. Been contacting Blizz with my 5th ticket now. I hope we’ll find a fix. I’ll keep you guys updated.
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Same issue…
SIM spikes from 3~5ms… to 30ms, with fps drops from 300 to ~100fps, and random movement stuttering / rollback.
i7 8700k
GTX 1080Ti
16GB DDR4 3000Mhz
HDD 7200 rpm, 64MB cache, 6Gb/s
Win 10 PRO. 10.0.14393 (and i will NOT update, too much BS features).
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Well folks, here’s an update. I have no idea why, but somehow my problem does no longer persist. with the latest patch my frames went back up. Seems to be a problem on blizz’ side for sure. Hope it stays fixed.
I thought the same but the framedrops returned the next day.
Wishing you luck on it.
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