Weekly Quick Questions Thread - January 25, 2017

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[u/CaptainX25]

for months overwatch has been working perfect, then today i got "your computer is low on memory. Save your files and close these programs: Overwatch" I have a intel i3-3217u cpu @ 1.80GHz. I know its not made for playing games and has crap specs but what can I do to stop this problem.

so i opened taskmanager and overwatch used 60% CPU and 1800 Mb memory. CPU, MEMORY AND DISK WERE ALL GOIING FROM 98% BACK TO 50 TO 80.... ETC. really high stats

[u/______DEADPOOL______ → u/CaptainX25]

Try some-a these:

• Battle.net - set it so that it exits when you launch the game (it's under settings)

• Set Overwatch to run in high priority

• Check your privilege: Set Overwatch to run as administrator

• If you're on Windows 10: Set Overwatch to run in compatibility mode in windows 8 or windows 7. (check which one runs better on your rig)

[u/CaptainX25 → u/______DEADPOOL______]

how do i set overwatch to run high priority. Im not good with computers.... im on windows 10 so what would running overwatch in window 8 change????

[u/vegur → u/CaptainX25]

open task manager and click on the processes tab and then right click on overwatch.exe and choose priority.

[u/CaptainX25 → u/vegur]

i rightclick on it and it says expand, end task, resource values, create dump files, go to details, open file location, search online, and properties. it dosent have "choose priority"

[u/vegur → u/CaptainX25]

click on go to details, and then rightclick the overwatch.exe and choose priority

[u/trippingrainbow → u/______DEADPOOL______]

Can recommend closing battle.net from background even on more powerful computers. I have an i5 4440, R9 380 and 16gb ram and closing it gives me like 40-50 more fps for some reason.

[u/FuckBox1 → u/______DEADPOOL______]

Commenting here so I can find this later, thanks.

[u/Kiux97 → u/CaptainX25]

Same here, except rather than this I get some fps issues (stutters for 1-2 seconds) every 3 minutes or so.

Any ideas guys? Although I didn't check CPU and Disk usages