"Overwatch has encountered a critical error during startup" error

[Solunsky]

An error occurs 10 seconds after starting the game. Before the 2 gigabyte patch came out, everything worked. I had tried verifying game integrity, and Steam downloaded 48 megabytes of some files, but the error still remained.

I found people having similar problems and reinstalling the game didn't help them, so I haven't tried it yet.

Please help

[Solunsky]

bump

[Pippin]

Same problem here idk whats wrong with the game and I have no idea how to fix it

[ゴ『M.P. Firebrand』ゴ]

Try uninstalling then reinstalling Team Fortress 2. That usually fixes my problems with overwatch

[Pippin]

Wow! Thanks for the help! Any actual suggestions would be helpful

[ゴ『M.P. Firebrand』ゴ]

Originally posted by Pippin:

Wow! Thanks for the help! Any actual suggestions would be helpful

That was my suggestion. Play a better game

[Pippin]

Tf2 is a good game but I don’t want to play it, would rather play Overwatch 2. Anyways I still need help fixing overwatch

[ゴ『M.P. Firebrand』ゴ]

Originally posted by Pippin:

Tf2 is a good game but I don’t want to play it, would rather play Overwatch 2. Anyways I still need help fixing overwatch

Have you tried updating your drivers or turning your computer off and on again?

[Solunsky]

Originally posted by ゴ『M.P. Firebrand』ゴ:

Try uninstalling then reinstalling Team Fortress 2. That usually fixes my problems with overwatch

Thanks for the advice, but if I have to choose between two garbage games, I'll choose the one that's fun to play. And this is not TF2.

[Solunsky]

In any case, the error disappeared when I reinstalled the game and the BattleNet launcher...
idk, spaghetti-code is wonderful

[Pippin]

Originally posted by Solunsky:

In any case, the error disappeared when I reinstalled the game and the BattleNet launcher...
idk, spaghetti-code is wonderful

Weve already tried doing that and it didnt work, glad it worked for you though

[ゴ『M.P. Firebrand』ゴ]

Originally posted by Solunsky:

Originally posted by ゴ『M.P. Firebrand』ゴ:

Try uninstalling then reinstalling Team Fortress 2. That usually fixes my problems with overwatch

Thanks for the advice, but if I have to choose between two garbage games, I'll choose the one that's fun to play. And this is not TF2. :cancyman:

Your loss.

[Pippin]

Genuine question firebrand why do you sit in overwatch forums if you don’t like overwatch

[Solunsky]

Originally posted by Pippin:

Originally posted by Solunsky:

In any case, the error disappeared when I reinstalled the game and the BattleNet launcher...
idk, spaghetti-code is wonderful

Weve already tried doing that and it didnt work, glad it worked for you though

I saw on forums with messages about this error that a person had some problems with his Wi-Fi adapter. This is very strange, but you never know

[Pippin]

Originally posted by Solunsky:

Originally posted by Pippin:

Weve already tried doing that and it didnt work, glad it worked for you though

I saw on forums with messages about this error that a person had some problems with his Wi-Fi adapter. This is very strange, but you never know

I don’t know what I could do about the WiFi router or anything that would fix the problem

[ゴ『M.P. Firebrand』ゴ]

Blizzard code is probably more janky than TF2’s. So if it’s a bug they probably won’t fix it. Because they write code like this:
https://youtu.be/wsqgBVVen0M?si=fZUSsUmscRp94dRV