Every once in a while Overwatch randomly pushes my settings back to basics.
I do not like music in match so I have it on 0, sometimes I start up the game and music is back on 100% and all the other settings I have for high FPS are returned to ‘Super quality gaming’. Why would they do that? More people experiencing this problem?
What the heck even is super quality gaming?
Are you using 3rd party tools to change settings? If yes, then that is your problem.
something on your pc might be doing it as ive never had this issue
You’re using graphics card preset and updated the display driver recently? Because those are often the most common ways to “change” your overall settings.
Aside that, your settings often are a text file under your user/documents/overwatch folder if I remember correctly.
Your game crashes often?
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That might actually be what’s causing it, the game does sometimes freeze up on me and has a total crash. Not sure how to overcome that problem though 
Sometimes settings in any game can reset or change after an update.
Does your computer ever bluescreen?
As tip, do your settings. Restart the game. Due if your settings were changed and the game crash, more often than not, the settings will be reset.
Check if everything is okay. If so, do a backup of your settings file.
Then, try diagnose the crash. Sometimes is related to RAM, others with Disk, others with unstable overclock/underclock, others with temps, others with some software or overlay.
My advice is often limit the framerate of the game, due could pretty much narrow the hardware or software section. In this regard, depending on your monitor or hardware I would advise enable v-sync or limit the framerate to equal(like if your monitor is 165hz putting 165fps) or half your monitor’s refresh rate(like if you have 360hz putting in 180fps). Depeding on your hardware spec to reach a actual reasonable value, normally I would say 60fps or 30fps for this purpose due folks not always being able to run the game at higher fps, but the value would be more related to your hardware capabilities running your current system. If you know your hardware can handle more than 60 but dunno it’s peak and your monitor spec, leave at 60.
Play some games, spend some time with the game open and check if it freezes or crashes. If not, often isn’t software related, then, go to hardware section
Software Related:
For disk, often I try to repair game files through the bnet client or steam. Then, check disk health with some tools, even windows has a checkdisk who can fix some broken OS files.
For RAM, often memtest, those take awhile.
Some Display adapter old drivers can leave some nasty footprint that can create conflict. Trying to run tools like DDU can help to remove the problematic driver and install a fresh new one.
Close softwares that you wouldn’t need during the playtime. Also check if they have some kind of overlay and try to disable it to see if they’re the culprints. If the problem goes away, you can single out what caused by trying them in batches or one by one.
Hardware Related:
For overclock/underclock. I check the temp and if the hardware is under the “actual performance range” as should, if was undervolted slighly increase the voltage, if was overclocked slightly reduce the clock speed.
For temps, check if fans are running and the last time you cleanned up the pc. Could be some stuff blocking the airflow or thermal grease in need to be checked(the application) or renewed.
Often tied to unlocked framerates which would drive the hardware to the edge, it’s temp or voltage can limit it and starts to correct itself, generating erradic behavior. On those cases I often reduce 10-20% based on the max fps it reached, giving some room for situations like OS update, some background program running and stuff like that.
Keeping eye on hardware temps and often disabling/tweaking any overclock/underclock you could had be done. Often the problem solves itself.
If neither software and hardware fixed. Well, could be related to well known problem on the notes in the display adapter driver which could help you revert to a previous version who didn’t had. While if there’s no note about it, could be OW issue.
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you could putting on your preferred settings and then just put Settings_v0.ini on read only mode.
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My settings stay fine, but whenever overwatch has a new patch installed my game starts in windowed mode XD
It might be overwatch jank, but Unlucky man has good advice written up here to check out quite a few possibilities.
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I was going to ask about graphics update
I recently got a radon 6600 and updating the graphics driver on this thing reset all my settings …this wasn’t the case when I had my Nvidia and I’m not really sure why it does it but I’ve basically been withholding further updates because it’s annoying to undo everything. If you know how to stop it from doing that I’m all ears
Just Skynet. Nothing to worry about.
(Yet)
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That’s a good advice. Although dunno how tech savy the person was, so I tried simply steps and although making read only could generate issues on situations it needs to change afterwards like new feature or newer hardware.
I often have this kind of situation when I run multiple monitor setup or when I used 2 gpus on the same pc. Due not always monitors starting at proper order or simply a cable being loose and messing up how the game detect the monitors in question. Even an accidental Alt+enter can make it happen, also could be related to the game itself run more stable at windowed mode.
This often can be the case too, the game eventually increase more than should. Is well know for it’s memory leaks and some spaguetti code too.
You mean the ones on Radeon software, like adrenalin? Or the game itself?
I had similar issues on games if I launched through the software or actually setup the config on them. Due when Either Geforce Experience or Radeon Software updated sometimes their “performance metrics” would change for certain games due “optimizations”. Which could lead to changing their “optimization settings” or “auto-tunning”.
Although on both cases if I set global settings or software specific settings on adrenalin to prefer the application settings I don’t have issues on the application level in this regard. While if I create some performance tweaks on adrenalin, like fan curve, power limit etc. I need re-tweak or import the old profile after the update. This started when they had a problem of certain settings having a problem with older profiles, also when the device fails by default the profile gets selected. Which often is the case on the installing/updating driver process. So, they often “nuke”/“clean install” through their updates to avoid issues of incompatibility preset. As funny it sounds, this can be the reason why AMD GPUS, in general, recover pretty well due unexpected gpu behavior, while nvidia doesn’t that often. With the price of the “previous” state goes south and needing to be re-imported. I think you can overwrite the default profile in cases of problems going directly to your preferable profile, but I wouldn’t advise to do so due it could be a faulty tweak that only would show it’s problem under stress or down on the road by using specific portions of VRAM, boosting behaviors etc.
Some folks had problems with Windows Updates, due Copilot features. While if was gpu driver update the reset on tweak are often tied to ensure compatibility and stability. I would suggest save a performance profile, export it in some easy place to remember and after the update import it again, instead of preventing it to be overwritten.
https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/why-is-adrenalin-changing-my-performance-settings/m-p/686439
https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/tuning-settings-always-reset-on-boot/m-p/638112
Is a bit annoying, so for that, unless the driver fixes something I really need I would update once in about 3-6 months or so. Both vendors have a long history of having pretty bad driver implementations on awkwardly pattern, often tied to newer features.
The last time I updated my Radeon the settings for OW (and WoW) all got reset in the respective games
It was never an issue with my nvidia updates
Thank you so much for the information mate! I’ve adjusted the framerate a bit and put on the v-sync. I’ll save your post to check further on regarding my hardware because that’s long overdue… If I could donate you a skin, let me know <3
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Interesting, normally would happen on Performance profiles. But at same time recently they launched some features related to HYPR-RX, AFMF and had some fixes for those 2 games and the previous one was tied to your series too.
Recently:
Fixed Issues and Improvements
Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing World of Warcraft® or World of Warcraft® Classic on RDNA™ 3 series graphics products. Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Overwatch® 2 on Radeon™ RX 5000 series graphics products.
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-24-5-1.html
Considering the mentioned games, could be related to it. Even if not directly affecting your gpu. The code and solution could be more broad for that case. Although would be unlikely to happen on the newest one, the previous one had something related to those games and your gpu series in particular
Previously:
Fixed Issues
Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Overwatch® 2 with Radeon™ Boost enabled on Radeon™ RX 6000 and above series graphics products.
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-24-4-1.html
While the previous to it, was associated to WoW using dx12 api
Improvements to reduce initial loading times while playing World of Warcraft with DirectX 12 API on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6800.
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-24-3-1.html
In your case, appears to be more akin to “new features” and “fixes” in a row for the games you play in particular.
Just have fun and I hope you can find what is causing your problems. I don’t mind helping folks, folks should do it when they can. Everybody need help sometimes, having someone to help make our lives easier.
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I’m curious about the performance profiles you’ve mentioned cause I don’t think I’m using any…I pretty much installed the card and ran the game when I got it…unless they’re like automatically enabled or something and the updates cause weird things to happen when using them
In old days they were called wattman. Some vendors have their presets but due my gpu being OEM I dunno how it behaves these days.
Like reducing voltage, fan curve, vram, clocks etc.
In my case each update I need to apply my old profile. On those settings.
Edit: This portion below would be the part of optimizations for games.
While using the “eco”/“balanced”/“gaming”/“custom” can have some impact.
I often don’t do much thinkering on profiles. Although my global one I sometimes configured to “enhance app specific settings”. But these days I simply avoid it or change something pretty much specific, like anti-lag, boost, chill if I really need it.
While adrenalin detect the game and show some settings applied.
I know that hypr / hypr eco presets often had some weird behaviors for 6000 series for some time.
so of course to prove what i was saying i went ahead and updated my graphics driver just now…
…and it didnt do any of the things i claimed 
(i dont know what happened last time)
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