A little under a year ago my Overwatch journey began. I was so excited! So ready to take on my first FPS competitive game! Little did I know, my first battle was going to be with my own motherboard.
When the Open Beta allowed thousands of people to play on the Overwatch servers my friends and I were more then a little hyped. We played for at least 18 hours straight. It was fantastic. When we all woke up at 2 pm the next day my PNG had jumped to 300. There was so much in game stutter that my teammates and enemies were teleporting on screen.
It was too much to try and aim so I stuck with Reinhardt. Thus Reinhardt became my main. Together we learned how to stop Roadhog hooks from snatching my teammates and bringing down our enemies with a devastating earth-shatter!
A week had gone by and Reinhardt and I did our best. But with the massive amounts of latency we just couldn’t do anything. I found a work around that helped. None of my friends were experiencing this massive lag. This meant that what was happening was because of my computer.
One month and the work around I had found was patched out. So I really needed to find a solution to the problem. In the forums there were a number of people who were also experiencing the same problems. Each time I tried one of the solutions it did nothing.
I saw that some people uninstalled some programs from their computer that had come with their Asus Motherboards. They were optional programs. I brushed this aside because I didn’t think my motherboard was the problem.
After exhausting all other solutions I reluctantly looked to see if I had those programs installed on my computer, and there they were. The little demons! With a lot of prejudice I uninstalled these programs!
Reinhardt and I were finally free.
This is a link to a lot of solutions that Blizzard has found for a lot of common issues. It has helped me out a lot. If you are having some problems check it out. See if we can’t help you find what you are looking for. My solution was under: Performance – Long Load Times, High Latency (Proxy/VPN/Network Optimizer)
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-Soul
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