Since launch this has been a problem for me too with 360 total security, I couldn’t been able to play yet - pc would restart as soon as I click launch. While turning it off seems to do the trick, this never happened in ow1 so it must be a problem on the game’s side. I’m glad it’s being looked at though.
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Not necessarily. Mine is a watchdog error, indicative of a memory leak.
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PC bluescreens sometimes within 10 minutes sometimes a couple hours playing OW2
Stop code: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
https://pastebin.com/raw/0X87A9xe
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Happened 5 or 6 times now throughout the last week.
https://pastebin.com/yc4DpXna
My PC has been restarting and CPU overheating ever since I downloaded OW2 and its been happening for other games I play and it never happened before I downloaded OW2
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Twice now since launch my system has just immediately shut off right when the game starts. No BSOD or other error messages. Nothing in event logs. Just powers off.
While my computer hasn’t shutdown or restarted while playing OverWatch 2, CPU temperature immediately spiked to almost 100C on launching OverWatch 2, which caused me to close it. A work-around that worked for me was to enable a power plan that capped CPU usage at 80%. That kept CPU temperatures around 38C.
i dont get how this is happening to some people like my laptop doesnt even hit 100c (212f) while playing according to monitoring software the max the laptop was hititng is 204F on cpu but its possible something in the windows install is causing a spike in temps though also it can be a cpu cooler issue
In my case OW2 was crashing just after pressing “play” from battle.net, not even queuing.
I found out that the issue is having 360 Total Security (Antivirus) running on my PC.
Whitelisting OW2, or Battle.net, or putting the antivirus in silent mode doesn’t work, the PC will crash and reboot anyway. Only solution was to close the antivirus.
If the game is running and I open up again the 360 Total Security, the PC will crash and reboot in a matter of seconds.
How can I get unbanned from overwatch 2 just because my PC has been crashing while I’m in comp and when I tried to rejoin, I couldn’t
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I am literally banned for 19 hours and its sucks because Im like 2 games away from diamond…
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On my Windows 10 computer, the screen would always somehow get stuck in the middle of a game, and then go black and all the buttons would fail, so I had to restart the computer by hand.
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There is another part that has to start 360 Anti-virus software before starting the game, or They cannot start the game. lmao
I’m in the same boat as you, with my computer’s CPU at 70 - 80 °C while ow2 is running.
This tip is gold, and you should check this even if you get a hang / reboot with no visible BSOD – sometimes, like in my case, the BSOD isn’t displayed properly.
Removing a software isn’t an answer, if your game is the only one that has the issues with it!
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DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION is almost always related to unstable CPU or GPU clocks.
If you have overclocked your system, try to revert to stock frequencies.
I’ve had this happen with a radeon gpu(6800xt) on a fresh install of win11(just discord, bnet, radeon drivers, and firefox). Can’t make it more than a full game usually so i wouldn’t say RTX voice is the cuprit and call it solved, but I just run it on linux(its my main os anyway) and don’t have the issue there so good luck to you all. Btw shoutout to the ow team for not doing a kernel anti cheat so i’m able to play on linux in the first place. They may harass women but boy do they know how to code!
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