Hey, suddenly I have low FPS in my games. All day it was fine but just now all my games I can’t get more than 120 frames. I don’t have any background applications open. My machine is pretty good. I have a GTX 1080 Ti and 32gb of Ram on a 144hz monitor. Usually I get anywhere from 250-300 frames.
Any idea why suddenly my fps would drop and be stuck so low?
These standard tips can help resolve most Overwatch FPS drops:
- 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 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.