Overwatch application not closing properly

After i EXIT game, the “overwatch application” is still listed in my task manager. Eating about 1Gb of my memory even tho game is closed.
I have to “end task” in task manager to close game.

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My case is even worse. I can play as much as I want, but there is a 50% chance that my pc collapses after exiting the game. WTF?

Yeah my battle.net says game is still running even tho it clearly isnt

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this is still happening to me. I click “exit to desktop” but when I look at the bnet launcher the button says “Playing Now”. I have to use the task manager to end the application.

After exiting the game via the client, the application is in the task manage in 1 of 2 locations: under the Battle.net application, often (but not always) with a crash reporter (listed but not visible on the desktop); or under Background processes as it’s single application.

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I am having this very same issue. Every time i close overwatch i need to go int task manager to end the application because i cannot use the bnet app to play other games as the play button is not responsive.

I have the same problem, the process doesn’t close, I have to manually close it in the task manager every time I exit the game… Happens since I changed my GPU from NVIDIA to AMD.

i can confirm, i switched to a 5600XT and have dis issue

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Upgraded to a 7700XT and this started happening to me

here is the fix

Go to your OW installation folder and set Overwatch Launcher.exe to run as admin

Right-click Overwatch Launcher.exe >Properties >Then click on the Compatibility tab >set “Run as administrator” and do the same for the Overwatch.exe in the retail folder

This will fix it and the game will close properly

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Didn’t worked for me.

this sadly doesn’t fix it, now you can restart the game before the process is dead, but that’s about it.