For the last several months, I've been noticing this very grainy and ugly lighting effect that appears frequently in many of my PC games. Usually, it affects one or several objects in a scene. At times, this grainy effect covers huge portions of a scene, in varying intensity. I notice it most often when looking at shadows or reflections, especially on shiny or metallic surfaces. At other times it is not present at all. In Far Cry 5, for example, all the lighting looked good except for reflections on metal carts and similar objects - those reflections were a blurry, grainy mess.
I've been collecting photo evidence (view in full size to see the effect most clearly):
View: https://imgur.com/a/VfJjZdk
I have replicated the effect on two completely different monitors. I have spent a significant amount of time tweaking in-game settings and a few things in the Nvidia control panel, and I have yet to find anything that removes the effect or even reduces it. I have noticed that decreasing/disabling anti-aliasing makes the issue way more noticeable, but I'm not sure that means anti-aliasing is causing it. It seems to be related to screen space reflections/RTX somehow, but I can't figure out a fix.
Other things I have tried:
-rolling back Nvidia drivers
-clearing the DX shader cache
-upgrading my graphics card from a 1660 super to a 3060Ti
-moving my GPU to a different PCIe slot
-reinstalling my OS (Windows 10)
PC Specs:
RTX 3060 Ti
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
MIS MAG B550 Tomahawk motherboard
16 GB RAM
Driver Version 531.18
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this or what I can try to fix it?
Happy to provide any follow-up information I can to help resolve this. I really don't want to go into RE4 with this issue. Thank you in advance for any suggestions/help!
I've been collecting photo evidence (view in full size to see the effect most clearly):
View: https://imgur.com/a/VfJjZdk
I have replicated the effect on two completely different monitors. I have spent a significant amount of time tweaking in-game settings and a few things in the Nvidia control panel, and I have yet to find anything that removes the effect or even reduces it. I have noticed that decreasing/disabling anti-aliasing makes the issue way more noticeable, but I'm not sure that means anti-aliasing is causing it. It seems to be related to screen space reflections/RTX somehow, but I can't figure out a fix.
Other things I have tried:
-rolling back Nvidia drivers
-clearing the DX shader cache
-upgrading my graphics card from a 1660 super to a 3060Ti
-moving my GPU to a different PCIe slot
-reinstalling my OS (Windows 10)
PC Specs:
RTX 3060 Ti
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
MIS MAG B550 Tomahawk motherboard
16 GB RAM
Driver Version 531.18
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this or what I can try to fix it?
Happy to provide any follow-up information I can to help resolve this. I really don't want to go into RE4 with this issue. Thank you in advance for any suggestions/help!