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Kinda insane no?
Why would it be insane?
It’s normal if at all.
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I’m gonna guess you’re on a laptop that alternates between integrated and dedicated graphics.
But it somehow got stuck on the integrated.
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Had the same issue.
If you have tripple buffering & vsync enabled: disable tripple buffering and use reduced buffering instead.
My CPU usage went from 70% (100% during big team fights) down to about 50% with vsync & reduced buffering.
Not sure why tripple buffering causes my CPU usage to skyrocket in OW2. Doesn’t happen in OW1.
For Blizz games its normal. But other games not that much. Blizz games are kind of known laptop busters even if they are old-ish like WoW.
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My desktop PC (but not my graphics card) is from 2010. It had better use 70% of my CPU at minimum.
I’m not opening the link but what CPU
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Without any context on specs it’s kind of meaningless.
70% depends extremely heavily on what CPU you have. 70% of a Q6600 from 2008 is a whole lot different than 70% of a 5950X.
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The game runs twice as slow compared to OW1 so I am guessing you had around 30% in OW1?
Seems is time to update your pc or check if you have some malicious program or services leech your cpu.
70% is really too high, with a i7 10700k i barely reach 25%.
Integrated graphics usage doesn’t show up as CPU usage. Those are two totally unrelated things.
There could not be less context. You could be running an R2000, in which cause my first thought would be, “wtf that’s from the 80s how does Windows even run on it” Or you could be running an Intel 13th gen in which case my first thought would be, “wtf that hasn’t been formally unveiled yet”.
Ah. Learning Lucio with literally 7fps. Dropped down to 3 at one point. Those were good times.
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Actually me in 2016 but with 18 fps lol, luckily my dad upgraded my PC for me lol
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Not on a laptop, not on integrated graphics. Nothing to do with CPU performance. My GPU is set to my 3060ti, 100%.
I have an i7-11700KF Overclocked to 4.9 GHz (8 cores) – RTX 3060ti, 16 GB RAM.
Overwatch 1 uses like 20-40%.
Overwatch 2 doubles that completely.
I don’t have an issue with the voltage/temperature. Every other game I play runs at 40-50% and at 60-70C. Overwatch 2 for some reason uses 70% and that’s when my temperatures start to peak in the 80’s. I don’t think my CPU cuts out until 100C, but it still gets toasty.
My ow2 crashes without fail every match (using Pentium g4600)
OW1 runs well enough and other games give me no issues but OW2 will crash even with no fps drops/etc. (I just purchased a 12600k and new moba since it was on sale)
That aside, I found that custom OW2 games run significantly better than quickplay. My guess is that the audio/chatter they have in quickplay is causing me to crash more often? I can play several matches in a row in custom mystery heroes but I rarely finish a quickplay match and I can’t think of what else is different between the two 
Do you play current WoW or anything else particularly graphics intensive? I don’t play much else so I’m not sure what the processing/graphic hog games are these days. Also what graphical settings are you running OW2 on?
I suppose another thing to remember is this is a Beta, and optimization and efficiency might not be there yet for the game, though the offical OW2 min requirements are going to be higher than the beta.
CPU utilization is going to depend very heavily on the design of the game engine. Most games are generally not super heavily multithreaded. For example, on an 8 core machine, a single threaded game will never use more than 12.5% of your CPU no matter how hard you try (in a generalized sense, not technically true, but I’m trying to express a point 
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It’s very plausible that the new engine just has multithreading improvements that split the work across more cores. It’s also not reasonable to expect the game is going to be more demanding on hardware than OW1.
So no, it’s not insane at all. You can’t just look at the utilization % and compare it directly.