I was at the end of round 1 of Hollywood, my game hits 3 FPS, (read from the FPS tracker), I apologize to my team and we lose the last point, second round starts, I pick Winston, the game freezes entirely, I’m at 0FPS now??
I get crashed to main menu, still at 0FPS can’t even close the game, I tab out, open task manager, and I notice a few things.
First of all, since images arn’t allowed anymore, my CPU usage is at 7%.
So why is Overwatch lagging if I’m using 7% of a quad core?
Secondly, Overwatch was using some 1,160,000 units of memory, I have 4gb of DDR3 RAM.
I put it down to a graphics card issue, one minor problem with that, er… if it was a graphics issue, wouldn’t I have the same issue with everything that uses my graphics drivers and card as a source, IE, the entire display should be lagging on every game I play and every program that uses flash or adobe or anything?
I’m not sure where this issue came from, I’ve been playing the game fine for 2 days, I just got back, and dropping out of gold into silver for something which is partially completely out of my control is not a good welcome back, I literally had to buy a new processor to play this because it’s so packed with rubbish now, all these unneeded effects and such, I don’t need to see clouds, chandlers and burning cars
Summary, pretty sure this isn’t my cards fault, like at all, no other game has ever done this in the history of me owning this card, and I’ve played Ark:SE for literally 3 days straight no restarts or relogs.
What I want to know is this: Is this an issue which occurs a lot nowadays?
Is it likely to happen often / ever again?
Is there a chance it’s something on my end or even something on overwatch’s side, since the rest of the PC ran well enough to open task manager, take screenshots, paste screenshots, save screenshots etc.