Question Issues with rendering distance

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Over the past week, I’ve started noticing certain graphical issues that are often typical in some games; however, these problems have begun appearing in every game I try. The issue is with the level of detail (LOD) and draw distance. Objects suddenly pop in without any smooth transition or gradual appearance—they just appear when I get close enough. The same thing happens with textures and shadows, where their quality changes instantly instead of gradually.

While moving through game environments, these changes are constant, making everything look unnatural and low-quality. It's so disruptive that it’s ruining the entire gaming experience, as objects in the environment continuously pop in, change, or disappear right in front of me.

This is most noticeable with shadows, so I’ve created a few short video clips to demonstrate. The last two videos show how the shadows behave at the edges of the screen. I’d like to emphasize that this issue appears consistently across all games, although in some it’s more subtle and in others more visible.

All components are less than a year old. Benchmarks indicate everything is running fine, temperatures are normal, and all necessary updates and reinstalls have been done. I’ve also tested on both minimum and maximum settings.

View: https://youtu.be/9GPm-NoElhc

View: https://youtu.be/rxgeOFW7Eek?t=6
 
issues with specific details, textures, or models "popping in" randomly and not as usual can be caused by a few different things;
a specific game's data being corrupted,
the disk where the game is installed failing,
RAM not functioning properly and the game's data being lost in translation,
GPU hardware failing or driver corruption causing inability to properly process the data, etc.

if this only happens with a single game,
it's the game files themselves or where they're installed.

if happens with multiple titles,
it's related to hardware.
 
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Thank you for the post. Apparently it's happening across all games I try. In some it's more suble and some other it's more visible like RDR2.
How would you personally approach this issue if you were to face it? How would you advise me? Thank you
 
it's happening across all games...
How would you personally approach this issue
you say "updates & reinstalls have been done".
but, that's where i'd start;

remove all graphics related drivers/data with DDU from within Windows Safe mode.
then reinstall the latest driver package directly from Nvidia without GeForce Experience.

make sure you're running the latest motherboard BIOS
and all of the latest available drivers directly from the board manufacturer product support page(s).

try installing a game or two onto a different drive and see if the performance improves there.
All components are less than a year old.
include the complete system specs with the MAKE & MODEL of all components.

CPU:
motherboard:
RAM:
GPU:
PSU(+ overall age):
storage:
CPU cooler:
case:
 
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Alright, will do. I've tried also removing the Nvidia ShaderCache which didn't help. Will get back to the thread when I'm done

CPU: 14700K
MB: MSI Z790 GAMING PLUS WIFI
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GBDDR5-6000 CL30
GPU: Gigabyte 4070 Windforce
PSU: Seasonic FOCUS GX-850W ATX 3.0 (not sure what you mean by overall age)
NVMe: KC3000 2TB
Cooler: AK620
 
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Sorry, are you suggesting I should check for a manufacturing date on the PSU itself? It was bought brand new in February.

As for updates, the BIOS is up-to-date. I reinstalled the chipset driver (if that’s relevant), uninstalled the Nvidia driver using DDU in safe mode, and installed the latest version directly from Nvidia’s website, and cleared the shader cache, but none of this has helped so far.

I currently only have one drive, and the only hardware I can swap out is the GPU with a friend’s, to rule that out.

The issue started less than a week ago, and, from what I’ve noticed, it only appeared after I updated the BIOS. I may try reverting to the previous version

I also ran the windows memory diagnostics and memtest86, no errors.
 
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I have found out what was causing some of the vegetation to flicker in RDR2 like the cactuses in the separate video, it occurs when I turn on the MSAA, whether 2x, 4x or 8x it doesn't matter, it didn't help with the poor rendering of shadows and vegetation though.