Constant pop-up in games caused by power supply?

[RageKage14]

My specs:
i5 4430
Radeon R9 270
GA-H81M-H
4GB Kingston HyperxBlu
600W Thermaltake dual rail PSU

I have a problem of textures popping in extremely close whenever I walk in games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlppdH8rceQ

I was told on Reddit techsupport that my original PSU (Dell h750e-01) was poor for my setup because it was quad rail and my video card wasn't drawing enough power. I went out yesterday and bought the 600w dual rail and the problem is still there. Now I am being told that I need specifically a SINGLE rail psu. Is this really the issue that would be causing this texture pop in?

 

[Dylzan]

It's Far Cry 3, it has no Anisotropic Filtering, it happens to me as well.

 

[swifty_morgan]

try pulling the sound jack and reinserting it.

ever think about setting your brightness and contrast features up right?............. this would be within the monitors control panel.

the stuff about the PS ............. BS................... what power supply did you have and what one did you get?

 

[skit75]

Looks more like a GPU/driver issue to me. I've been running a quad rail supply for the last 5 years and never seen anything like that in any game I play.

 

[alan0n]

What you are seeing is LOD set way way way too low. Go into your settings and turn the LOD up, this has nothing to do with your power supply at all. Even if you were not getting sufficient power to the card it would not cause an issue like this, you would get freezes or very low fps spikes.

Edit: It might be called Draw Distance in Far Cry 3. Been a minute since I played it and at work and cant actually check it from here.

 

[swifty_morgan]

you see how bright and out of whack that monitor is?

 

[RageKage14]

The thing is, it happens in every game I try to play. Not just Far Cry 3. I'm using Far Cry 3 as an example. So, it's not the PSU?

 

[skit75]

I would seriously doubt your power supply could cause effects like that. Your GPU or GPU driver could. Just out of curiosity, when you are ingame, how much of your RAM is being used? 85-95%? I wonder if that could be an effect of pagefile access to your hard drive because your RAM is saturated?

 

[RageKage14]

How do I check how much ram is being used?

 

[alan0n]

The thing is, it happens in every game I try to play. Not just Far Cry 3. I'm using Far Cry 3 as an example. So, it's not the PSU?

Definitely not the PSU. I would check your driver and see if you have a global game profile enabled. If have allowed the driver to override the application settings it can easily cause issues like this as well.

 

[RageKage14]

Everything in CCC is set to "Application Settings".

 

[swifty_morgan]

go into the monitors control panel and fix the brightness/over bright/contrast.

 

[alan0n]

Everything in CCC is set to "Application Settings".

How much disk space do you have allocated to your swap file? Also what kind of drive and what RPM does it run at? This could certainly be caused by a slower disk being used as virtual RAM (as skit75 mentioned earlier).

 

[skit75]

How do I check how much ram is being used?

Open Task Manager(Ctrl+Alt+Del) and select the Performance Tab. Then start your game and play for a few minutes. Then Alt+Tab out to see your RAM usage/saturation level.

 

[RageKage14]

I'll check that out when I get back from work and report back.

 

[RageKage14]

This is now the third person on Resdit to tell me the power supply is at fault. I don't know what to do.

http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/26540o/textureshadow_popin_in_every_game_i_try_to_play/

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

What exact PSU do you have , model?

 

[RageKage14]

I originally had a Dell h750e-01 and then I bought this

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/thermaltake-tr2-600nl2nc-atx12v-eps12v-power-supply/5381884.p?id=1218635882854&skuId=5381884&st=power%20supply&cp=1&lp=12

 

[RageKage14]

My physical memory usage is 59% while in-game.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

That is one of the most unstable power supplies on the market , could be an issue.

Tier 5 - Other than the units listed above for any of these brands, NOT RECOMMENDED. Replace ASAP if you have one.

A-TOP Technology
Apevia
APEX (SUPERCASE/ALLIED)
Aspire(Turbo Case)
ATADC
Athena Power
ATRIX
Broadway Com Corp
Coolmax
Deer
Diablotek
Dynapower USA
Dynex
EagleTech
FOXCONN
FSP Everest
HEC Orion
Hiper Type-R
Huntkey
I-Star Computer Co. Ltd
In Win
JPAC COMPUTER
Just PC
Kingwin Inc.
Linkworld Electronics
Logisys Computer
MGE
MSI
NMEDIAPC
Norwood Micro/ CompUSA
NorthQ
NZXT
Okia
Powmax
Q-Tec
Raidmax
Rocketfish
Rosewill
SFC
Shuttle
Skyhawk
Spire Coolers
Star Micro
STARTECH
Thermaltake Purepower NP
Thermaltake Purepower RU
Thermaltake TR2 (and TR2-RX)
TOPOWER TOP
Ultra X-Connect
Ultra X2 >greater than 700 watt
Ultra LSP
Wintech
XION
YoungYear
Zebronics

 

[RageKage14]

Would it cause the pop-in, though?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I don't think it is but I wouldn't run my components with that supply . Driver or bad card maybe , hard to say.

 

[RageKage14]

Is my original Dell h750e-01 useless as far as putting it back in over the thermaltake one, or is it usable?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

It's a tossup the dell might be underpowered , but the TR2 is just risky.

 

[RageKage14]

What do you think of this power supply?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/corsair-cx-series-modular-cx750m-750w-atx-power-supply-black/8324202.p?id=1218872214205&skuId=8324202&st=corsair%20power%20supply&cp=1&lp=4

I know CX is on the budget end, but is it still good?