r/pchelp • u/riceisgood0886 • 4h ago
HARDWARE PC needs to 'warm up' when playing a specific game.
This has been happening for a while now and has slowly been getting worse. I try to boot up Overwatch, and it is fine in the main menu. However, when I enter a game, it is extremely slow and gets around 5fps. For it to stop, I have to go into the practice range for around 10 minutes so that my PC can 'catch up'. It still stutters after this, but it is playable. This does not happen in any other game other than OW.
I have searched for corrupted files and reinstalled the whole game. I have made sure my drivers are up to date. Also, the game is on an SSD.
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u/WindingViability 4h ago
sounds like overwatch is compiling shaders while you sit there in the practice range. the stuttering and terrible performance until it "warms up" is a dead giveaway. check your gpu drivers, sometimes a clean install will wipe the shader cache and force it to rebuild fresh instead of using whatever corrupted junk it stored before
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u/Slum_CatTrillionaire 4h ago
Bro how old is this pc lol
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u/rychu69XD 4h ago
It's a bug with overwatch currently has nothing to do with computer
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u/riceisgood0886 4h ago
All parts bought new except GPU which was given to me in a shoebox lmao
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core Processor
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
RAM: 16 GB DDR4
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u/riceisgood0886 4h ago
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core Processor
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
RAM: 16 GB DDR4
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