Hello everyone,
I’m going to try and be quite detailed, I understand that “Fps drops” is an extremely broad symptom with an extremely broad list of possible causes.
Essentially, I’ll be playing, normally around 200fps, I’ll get a ‘stutter’ which is very jarring and massively interupts gameplay. The fps does drop during this stutter, maybe by around 60 frames.
Here are my PC specs;
1080Ti
I7 -7700k @ 5ghz
16gb RAM 2400mhz
Samsung 850 EVO SSD.
We can most likely rule out hardware issues
Now - I’m pretty certain we can rule out any hardware instabilities or errors, and here’s why - I run very high end games in 4k on ultra with no FPS issues - The fps is always decent, and more importantly, stable. Examples of these games would be shadow of the tomb raider, Assassins’ Creedy Odyssey, The witcher 3, Heavily modded Skyrim. CPU and GPU always stable and perfectly fine temps. No lag issues. - I believe this means we can safely rule out thermal throttling, or hardware issues, as I usually play overwatch on a 144hz 1440p monitor.
Secondly, this is only a fairly recent problem, maybe in the last 3 weeks to a month it started occuring.
Net graph overlay
When these fps drops occur, if I open the net graph overly in OW there will be a white box corresponding to how severe the stutter of the fps drop is.
What I have tried so far to fix the problem
1- Ensuring that my GPU driver is up to date
2- Changing between my 4k 60hz screen and 1440p 166hz screen
3- Changing and lowering graphics settings on each of these screens
4- Overwatch scan and repair tool
5- Disabling fullscreen optimisation on the overwatch.exe
6- Trying borderless windowed and Fullscreen
7- Disabling windows 10 DVR xbox integration
Potential points of relevance or interest
-When tracking GPU usage and temp via MSI afterburner, it correctly shows the GPU usage @ 100% When tracking GPU usage via windows task manager the GPU usage is at 6%, whether this is relevant or not I don’t know, but I’ll put it here just in case.
-This seemed to start happening when I installed the new PTR to tryout Ashe - All of the FPS issues I’ve talked about are happening on the live servers, on the PTR I would put it down to a bug or optimisation issue perhaps. Nonetheless, I think that my lag spikes on live seemed to start after installing the PTR again.
Thankyou for taking the time to assist me, hopefully we can figure this out so I can get ready for Ashe’s release!