I logged in at the moment OW2 came online, waited a bit in a queue, then got in. The game ran fine the first day. Constant 75 FPS on my 75 HZ monitor.
On the second day, the game started to stutter at random intervals. Every 5 or 10 seconds, short bursts of stutters started to happen. These stutters do not show on the in-game fps counter. Lowering settings does not help, updated my drivers, and tried closing all background apps, didn’t work.
I can’t aim when the stuttering begins, it’s really annoying.
If there is something I can do on my end, please inform me.
If it’s something that Blizzard has to fix, I’ll just wait patiently I guess.
My system specs: Windows 10 Pro (10.0.19043) Ryzen 5 3600 16 GB RAM GTX 1060 6 GB 1 TB m.2 SSD
Network problem.
Look in ctrl+shift+n overlay. Sim - 3 part of it. On top you can see network connect, if you have orange spikes - welcome to the club. Same story.
lol. just lol.
For me - problem fixed.
Kill almost all background process - network spikes dissapear.
Restart, start killing one by one - culpit was msi afterburner+riva tuner. Active only fan profile - thats all. No network activity.
Wtf?
Yep, I have em. And the spikes appear right after the stutters, I also noticed this lighting bolt icon appearing on the top left of the screen. I googled what that means and it came up with this result:
“The lightning bolt means that the server has not heard from your client for some period of time and is now extrapolating .”
I tried turning off MSI Afterburner and Rivaturner too but it didn’t fix my problem.
Try kill all unnecessary process one by one, when sitting on training range.
That help me find culpit.
Something really strange with game engine now, as i see.
When i launch game - first min i have 100% cpu usage. After min - 5%-10%.
If i join training range in that min - ping go up to 200+. And it persist before i restart game. After 45~.
Weird. Really weird.
So, I tried to turn off everything one by one like you said. Left the game open during this process, looking at the graphs.
Firstly, the stutters and the orange spikes don’t seem to be connected. They both occur at random intervals but they’re not correlated.
Second thing, I tried to turn off everything, even my anti-virus program, and my Bluetooth, but it didn’t work. Stutter still happens, maybe less frequently, but they still do.
This wasn’t an issue on the 4th of October. I don’t know what changed between then and now. I don’t remember changing anything on my computer, not counting driver update after encountering with the stutter issue.
I’ve found the solution to my specific problem. It was the limited frame rate. In OW1 I had it unlimited, but in OW2 it automatically limited itself to 75 fps. In the options, I choose the custom frame rate and then set the maximum value to 300. No more stutters. However the package loss and occasional lag are still here.