What happened to my game

[OneTrickDoom-1995]

Overwatch has been running great for a long period of time. Out of nowhere, it seemed to give up. Overwatch used to run a stable 60-70 fps, but as you can see in the clip, it drops down to 20-30 fps. Also, the game is very laggy, and I would say, unplayable. Before, I would run overwatch in high graphics, but then this happnened. I lowered the graphics to the lowest, and brought down the resolution. I also doubt the internet is the problem, since it worked perfectly before and I use an ethernet cord. Also, I tried different applications like Outfox which claims to lower ping and reduce lag. If it helps to know, this is also happening to many other games, and I only run one application at a time.

Here are my laptop’s specs.

Processor
Name
Core i7-6700HQ
Manufacturer
Intel
Speed
3.50 GHz
Category
Performance
Generation
13th
Brand
Core i7 5th Gen
Cores
4

Graphics
Name
GeForce GTX 970M
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Category
Enthusiast
Generation
20

Operating System
Name
Microsoft Windows 10 (build 17134), 64-bit

Here’s a video of Overwatch before:

And here’s Overwatch after:

[DEVi009-1746]

Intel

blizz doesnt care about this game anymore. optimization has been going downhill for months with every update.

1070, 7700k used to get 300 fps steady on all low with 100% res. literally never been below 299. and now i get 120-200, so unstable. what;s worse it has been months and there is no acknowledgment.

watch someone from blizz give you 10 billion solution that don’t work. If you were the only one effected then these solutions are understandable. but when everyone get less fps and optimization problems then it’s probably a big deal.

I get 140 fps on 1600x900 all low with 75% so it’s just optimization issues.They probably already moved on to their next fps.

[Kaedi-11739]

@OneTrickDoom-1995

Overwatch has been running great for a long period of time. Out of nowhere, it seemed to give up. Overwatch used to run a stable 60-70 fps, but as you can see in the clip, it drops down to 20-30 fps. Also, the game is very laggy, and I would say, unplayable. Before, I would run overwatch in high graphics, but then this happnened. I lowered the graphics to the lowest, and brought down the resolution. I also doubt the internet is the problem, since it worked perfectly before and I use an ethernet cord. Also, I tried different applications like Outfox which claims to lower ping and reduce lag. If it helps to know, this is also happening to many other games, and I only run one application at a time.

Hello OneTrickDoom,

This really seems like your Laptop might be running off the integrated graphic Chipset and not the dedicated Graphics card. Check these steps for advice:

@Drakuloth

Performance - Low FPS on Laptop after Windows 10 Spring Creators Update

We’ve seen an influx of situations where laptops are using the incorrect graphics card in Overwatch after this most recent Windows update. Follow the steps below to resolve it.

First, you need to set your Power Management settings to the high performance setting . If you don’t have a performance/quality setting already, you can use the left hand side of the power plan window to create one.

Now that this is done:

1. Right click your desktop and go to Nvidia Control Panel
2. Select Manage 3d Settings from the left menu
3. Click the Program Settings tab
4. Select the Overwatch Application in the list. If it isn’t there, Add it using the option next to the drop down
5. In the options below, find CUDA - GPUs
6. Set this to your Nvidia card, then click Apply
7. Select Configure Surround, PhysX from the left menu
8. Toggle the PhysX settings dropdown to use your Nvidia card.

Finally, reset the game settings to force it to pick up the changes.

Only do this if the game is being run on a secondary monitor:

1. Launch the game and go to the video settings
2. Toggle Target Display setting to use your laptop monitor.
3. Toggle the windowed/fullscreen setting to Windowed
4. Restart the game
5. Move the game to your normal monitor.