GTX 1070 BAD texture pop-ins

[Forrestor]

I just built a new rig about a month ago - GTX 1070 FTW, i5-7600k @ 4.8, 16gb Ram @ 2400MHZ, 512gb SSD and two 7200RPM HDDs. And I seem to be having REALLY horrible texture pop-ins on any game that I play. Mass Effect being the worst. I've heard VRAM and RAM is important for textures but I SHOULD be fine with the rig I'm using. I just used DDU to reinstall drivers and no change. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. This is driving me insane.

Here's a video showing how bad it is. https://youtu.be/Zbqfdy1c7Vc

 

[iamacow]

Eh VRAM and RAM can be important for textures loading. But rule really applies to older computers when 1.5GB for VRAM was the newest and best thing. Now the 1070 has 8GB which is more than some computers system RAM. As for RAM itself, really it hasn't been a issue in 10 years since the switch to DDR3.

So games like Mass Effect, Battlefield, Battlefront (Frostbite engine) that use streaming textures are loading off the hard drive. It is completely based on the game engine because to keep load times low, developers stop loading the textures to the VRAM and now just directly read off the hard drive. Its like a big circle because they use to do that because ram was limited, but they people don't want to sit on a loading screen for 5 minutes these days. So short load times or really small chunks are loaded at a time.

Anyways Mass Effect Andromeda is a bad example because it is known to have pop-in texture problems.