Seems like this issue will never be fixed from the side of the game, because it has been happening for years and it comes with every single patch.
So can someone please link me to some resources I can try cause this time it is not going away?
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It depends on your system. How close are you to the minimum or recommended specs? How many apps are you using in the background? Is hardware acceleration turned on for Chrome or other apps that eat the GPU?
It has nothing to do with any of those.
The normal use of Overwatch on my system is about ~10% CPU and ~1GB RAM.
I play Overwatch often and it always runs smoothly as butter UNTIL a new patch drops and suddenly the game ramps up to 100% CPU and 8GB of RAM for 10-15 minutes or indefinitely, for absolutely no reason at all. And that lasts for a week or so.
Literally up until the new patch drops. For example yesterday I was playing for 4 hours before the patch dropped. Absolutely no issue. Restarted the game to apply the patch and immediately 100% CPU and 8GB of RAM.
It is a known issue. Are there any known fixes you could link me to?
I’ve had no change in performance or latency with the new season. Since this is a troubleshooting forum, I am asking troubleshooting questions.
Can you link me to where it was acknowledged as a known issue? I may have missed it.
hahaha, Please don’t bother, they will always deny that there is something wrong with the patch
try applying this and see if it works for you
Bnet>corg icon> Game Settings> check additional commands box
–tank_WorkerThreadCount 4
Click on Done.
see if that works, otherwise, you can try
–tank_WorkerThreadCount 2
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Google “overwatch cpu 100” you will see dozens of threads from the past several years.
I was just ingame, started at 10fps because of the 100 cpu, then it normalized after a few minutes. Now the RAM is still at 8GB only on Overwatch for absolutely no reason. It should normalize in a bit, but one of these days because of this ramping up of resources my PC might get damaged. I would really prefer that not happening.
Please check internally for any knowledgebase about this issue.
EDIT: just found the same thread I posted in March and many people created similar threads. Apparently no one gives a … to fix this, so I guess I will have to pray for my CPU and RAM not to get damaged from this resource leak that appears in OW from time to time…
will do, thank you for the suggestions.
Sounds like the game’s rebuilding the shader cache due to the update which does thrash the CPU a lot until it’s done; this will also occur when you upgrade your GPU or update the graphics driver.
Not entirely sure about memory usage however, that I haven’t seen just from the game receiving a new patch.
You mentioned it was a known issue, which means something different to me. It would mean the staff received word from developers and posted something about it to alert players. I have not seen this happen yet or heard anything about it. Also, I don’t work at Blizzard, I just follow any updates that happen.
Yep, this is correct. I also don’t know anything about the OP’s computer. Each update/patch will optimize for minimum and recommend specs.
So here is a possible link.
When i delete the contents of this folder (\Overwatch_retail_\cache) and start the game, for a few second the CPU/RAM behave normal, then a casc3 folder is created in there and both CPU and RAM ramp up to 100% and 8GB each.
That doesn’t sound like a “game’s rebuilding the shader cache” feature to me…
Also it happens literally every single time I start the game after the update. If it was rebuilding something, wouldn’t it happens once and then just use whatever it has built already?
Some of the recent video drivers have been very poorly optimized and rebuild the shader cache every time you launch the game. This is the case with all recent AMD models.
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