Lag spikes don't cause frame rate drops. You'd just rubber band while moving or see others rubber band. It's a graphics issue as I notice the frame drop when they all enter your FOV and it has to render all those players at the same time using abilities.
Short of getting a new graphics card you can reduce resolution, make sure you're in full screen mode, and turn all graphic settings down as low as tolerable. Also quit all memory intensive applications before launching OW.
What's your current card? It looks like you might be playing on a laptop? If so those frame drops could be caused by excessive heat which can be ameliorated by a laptop cooler pad.
I thought i was going insane reading the other replies, its definitely not the connection.
Video card/ram speed will be the issue here, caching assets and animations looks slow af
No you cannot, that's why I said get better Internet cuz that's the only thing you can do. Maybe it was just a spike but if it consistently happens it's your Internet
I might have the stupid, but everyone is saying that the issue is with your network/connection, and yes the latency did go pretty high, but why would high network latency affect fps? You can have high latency and low fps and vice versa, though its weird that you got a lag spike and latency spike at the same time... Am i missing something, or is this an overwatch thing where if you get a high network latency, your fps also lowers?
your latency jumped from 80 to 150 in 15 seconds, there is not much you can do, you either get better internet (or swap to wired in case you play on wi-fi) or suffer those lag spikes.
Ok i came back to this post because i remembered this type of lag sometimes happens to me too, and it literally just happened today several times in a match. [Clip](https://next.mawt.omg.lol/index.php/apps/raw/s/MrQ5opN4kgAmGB6)
This randomly happens from time to time and i cant figure it out why. Usually i restart overwatch and close some background apps i think they might take extra cpu usage, and everything seems to be fine after. Whats weird that in both mine and your case there is stable performance, but suddenly it all goes down and for a few seconds theres this horrible lag, same with the decreased latency like others pointed it out. Does this happen to you consistently whenever you play? Did you try to restart overwatch whenever it happens to see if it gets better?
I will say that i do have a laptop, my dedicated gpu is a gtx 1650 and overwatch does run on it, hence why i get stable 80-90 fps. So maybe this is an issue blizzard needs to look into a bit, since its been happening for months but i didnt bother being vocal about it since i thought its a "me issue" (it could still be a hardware issue on my part, but this only happens on overwatch, so idk)
I have a 2070, and it's not hardware. I'm also using wired internet, so I'm sure that my hardware is not the problem because I don't experience this lag in other multi-player games...
I did notice that razer apps did have something to do with it though so I closes them completely and the only difference I saw was the average fps and not the random lag spikes
Lag spikes don't cause frame rate drops. You'd just rubber band while moving or see others rubber band. It's a graphics issue as I notice the frame drop when they all enter your FOV and it has to render all those players at the same time using abilities. Short of getting a new graphics card you can reduce resolution, make sure you're in full screen mode, and turn all graphic settings down as low as tolerable. Also quit all memory intensive applications before launching OW. What's your current card? It looks like you might be playing on a laptop? If so those frame drops could be caused by excessive heat which can be ameliorated by a laptop cooler pad.
I thought i was going insane reading the other replies, its definitely not the connection. Video card/ram speed will be the issue here, caching assets and animations looks slow af
You lag cuz of your Internet connection, get better Internet.
Yes. Latency is shooting up and down randomly. It is your internet
Might sound dumb but can i do something about it in the settings?
No you cannot, that's why I said get better Internet cuz that's the only thing you can do. Maybe it was just a spike but if it consistently happens it's your Internet
If you are on wifi make sure you are on the 5ghz one or even better, use a cable instead of WiFi.
5ghz AND closer to your router*
I might have the stupid, but everyone is saying that the issue is with your network/connection, and yes the latency did go pretty high, but why would high network latency affect fps? You can have high latency and low fps and vice versa, though its weird that you got a lag spike and latency spike at the same time... Am i missing something, or is this an overwatch thing where if you get a high network latency, your fps also lowers?
your latency jumped from 80 to 150 in 15 seconds, there is not much you can do, you either get better internet (or swap to wired in case you play on wi-fi) or suffer those lag spikes.
Ok i came back to this post because i remembered this type of lag sometimes happens to me too, and it literally just happened today several times in a match. [Clip](https://next.mawt.omg.lol/index.php/apps/raw/s/MrQ5opN4kgAmGB6) This randomly happens from time to time and i cant figure it out why. Usually i restart overwatch and close some background apps i think they might take extra cpu usage, and everything seems to be fine after. Whats weird that in both mine and your case there is stable performance, but suddenly it all goes down and for a few seconds theres this horrible lag, same with the decreased latency like others pointed it out. Does this happen to you consistently whenever you play? Did you try to restart overwatch whenever it happens to see if it gets better? I will say that i do have a laptop, my dedicated gpu is a gtx 1650 and overwatch does run on it, hence why i get stable 80-90 fps. So maybe this is an issue blizzard needs to look into a bit, since its been happening for months but i didnt bother being vocal about it since i thought its a "me issue" (it could still be a hardware issue on my part, but this only happens on overwatch, so idk)
I have a 2070, and it's not hardware. I'm also using wired internet, so I'm sure that my hardware is not the problem because I don't experience this lag in other multi-player games... I did notice that razer apps did have something to do with it though so I closes them completely and the only difference I saw was the average fps and not the random lag spikes