I’m fairly new to PC for OW, but been playing on console for a few years. I upgraded my graphics card to an RTX 3080 (photo/video editing) and recently purchased the new monitor for gaming.
After a few days of going through the forums and applying fixes, I’m still hovering between 260-320 FPS for the whole match and during team fights. Lowest I’ve gotten was around 210 FPS. Im able to maintain 400 FPS consistently in death matches, training and widow HS for the current moment. My computer specs are below.
RTX 3080
B560 Motherboard Asus
Intel 11th Gen I7 11700KF
2x8 (16 GB Ram 3200)
Windows 10
Things I’ve done below
Changed resolution in OW Video settings to 1920 390*
Changed all settings to low with rendering at 100% Even tried 50 and 75 to no luck with FPS.
Changed power management settings to performance
Changed the display settings in Windows 10 to 390hz along inside the NVIDIA Panel
*I’ve also made numerous adjustments in the NVIDIA Panel from previous posts here.
*Confirmed that ram is in dual channel instead of single via CPU-Z
I ran some tests during OW to see if I’m receiving any bottleneck, but both of my CPU and GPU is running around 30 percent each. Intel clocked at 4600 and RTX at 1800.
I appreciate any help that you can throw at me. And please refrain from saying “the human eye can’t even see certain frames and etc…” “Why do you need this?” “OW is dead” “showing off your rig”. Thanks kindly.
Based on what I can tell, you are at your most optimum. If anything it may come down to the motherboard and BIOS remaining if there is any extra juice to squeeze out of your system. Also check for any background processes or programs which may cut into performance (even though your CPU and GPU are not capped).
Oh one other thing, how fast is your latency to the server? If the connection is greater than 60 ms, I do believe it can have a minor impact on framerate due to the game client’s netcode protocols (but that is going into a realm where I have very little knowledge on).
Thanks for the reply Myst! I did test that out yesterday. I have a dual monitor set up with the Acer 390. I disconnected my second panel to see if there are any changes, but to no avail. I have 0 background apps or processes other than OW and system processes.
That is unfortunately true. Its more or less optimized around the 1080 GTX era. I will note, Overwatch 2 is going to have a lot of technical upgrades in terms of performance when it releases.
Again, it’s not about stats, it’s about performance and finding out the root cause. Appreciate the help though. I’ll keep note of the optimized hardware.
Also, this is for future knowledge for all users especially in OW if they want to invest in new monitors and equipment. Use this as a case sample.
I am really not sure if there is anything else you can do get any higher. Originally the game was designed for a maximum of 300 FPS if I remember correctly (the settings now allow uncapped up to 400 but I don’t know if they made signficant changes to optimize to the higher frame rate).
We may have to wait for a “reset patch” to come out sometime (a patch which consolidates all of the patches into the core software from the last reset patch) which often helps with performance. (The last reset patch was in March 2021.)
Sounds good Myst! I’ll take note of that. As for the optimized hardware, it does somewhat makes sense. Through my research I’ve seen a handful of videos of users maintainingg 380FPS during fights and above CONSISTENTLY. The only difference that I took note of was that my hardware is somewhat relatively new.
I could update my ram to 32gb 3600mhz since the game is CPU and RAM heavy, but I’m assuming it wouldn’t boost my performance as much if my hardware is already capped based off the game.
“Sixty9shots”. How about you give me 60 seconds back of my time it took me to type this out and I’ll give you 9 seconds to think about how helpful your comment was. cheers
Always worth to check temps and what boost clocks you’re getting. Maintaining high FPS usually means maintaining a high CPU clock. I would expect clocks comfortably above 4Ghz with your CPU.
Reducing render scale is not going to help, your bottleneck is CPU, not GPU.
You could mayhaps get better performance with 3600Mhz ram, but that’s expensive but gets you a few FPS at best.
Thanks Mozts. I’m not sure if it’s a CPU bottleneck as it’s running around 4800 (not clocked) already with no other background apps/processes other than system. I can test out the hypothesis out in the morning and will report back after clocking it.
As for the RAM, I can borrow a few models from my friends shop. I’ll try the 32 gb 3600mhz. and another at 5000mhz. Do you have any suggestions on specific ram? I saw a video that tested out different RAM speeds for overwatch and the test concluded that RAM above 3600 and below 4600 is redundant. I can link the video if you like.
Ya, no new updates for Windows or the GPU. Again, it’s not about being satisfied about what I have. I feel blessed. It’s finding the root cause for the issue. I’m not the only one who’s going to purchase a new monitor and new specs for this game. Use this as a case sample for everyone in this community.
I don’t have a specific model recommendations, there’s thousands… And yes it is a marginal improvement but you’re looking at 300+ FPS and looking to go farther, so marginal is what we must look at.
Well I didn’t check your machine personally but so far I’m not seeing an issue. Your CPU, according to you, is boosting quite high, your Windows 10 is well tuned and no component is overheating…
