I’m about 2 months old new to Overwatch and finally ran into my first technical problem. At first I thought it was my fault but it seems others are having the exact same issue. Everything starts off perfectly fine, but then out of nowhere in the middle of playing I will experience HORRIBLE fps drops.
Just making this post just to spread more awareness and before anyone tries to help, yes I have done everything to try and fix it. I play on the lowest settings, have only overwatch running, and have updated my driver and all that. Hope this isn’t a problem every update because at this point it’s not fun having to pray my fps drops dont kick in again and lose a competitive match.
These standard tips can help resolve most Overwatch FPS drops, yeah I understand if some of these steps you may have already taken, but carefully review the links to see detailed steps that can be often missed.
- Reset Overwatch’s Video Settings
- Update your graphic card driver.
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Reset your graphic card driver settings., then make sure that your Graphic Card Driver control panel is configured correctly for Overwatch. This includes setting Overwatch at Maximum Performance (not optimal power) for Power Management and making sure it set to run on the graphics card and not the motherboard chipset.
- In drastic cases you may need to reinstall the driver and update to the most recent driver for your card. Remember to use Display Driver Uninstaller to completely clean out your old driver. Then download the most recent NVidia or AMD driver for your system.
- There have been other threads reporting that updating your system BIOS can help with some performance issues with recent patches. Please be careful if you choose to update your BIOS and look up your motherboard’s instructions on how to do this.
Also here are advanced tips I have written in Overwatch’s Tech Support forum that maximize your FPS performance in the game.
same here. There are other forum posts about this issue… having this since the second last patch came out
here is the other thread about this issue:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/random-fps-drops-since-updates-from-170-to-20-to-170/611068/29
I hope the devs will realise at some point that this is something that needs fixing