I’ve recently started getting an error when trying to open overwatch. In the battle.net app it shows “Launching”, then “Playing Game”, then just goes back to “Play” and doesn’t open. After some searching i’ve found that it looks like it’s related to the overwatch_launcher.dll (error message found through System Information on Windows).
I’ve tried reinstalling a few times, Scan + Repair, deleting the file and then Scan + Repair again to get it back, but nothing seems to be fixing it. Any help or tips are greatly appreciated
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While you wait for assistance, review the Windows Reliability Monitor (Win10) or Reliability History (Win11), which may show you what’s happening in the background to cause any errors.
Looking at reliability history, the only errors that were showing up were for Overwatch Application, and each time the Fault Module Name was Overwatch_loader.dll (except for once where it was ntdll.dll).
The errors are reporting that Overwatch doesn’t have permission to access its files. You may have an antivirus, like Norton, McAfee, SentinelOne, etc., blocking the game, or the directory might be marked as read only by a recent Windows update.
There are also two sticky threads that could be related.
same here,
Win. Defender - deaktivated
Never installed any Razer Chroma Software
Directory’s are not on read only
Intel CPU
since the patch from October 29th, my game no longer launches from Battlenet or Steam. Before that I played and had to “update” the game after the round ended and since then I can’t get into the game anymore.
Not really sure where to go from here. I had this issue a couple weeks back but after reinstalling overwatch it started to work fine. Probably in the last 7-10 days since it’s come back and now been un-fixable.
