I'm getting really noticeable texture and object pop-in in nearly every game I play, including Lies of P, Judgment, Pragmata, and LEGO Batman: The Legend of the Dark Knight. Details like road markings, building sections, lights, and other assets suddenly appear right in front of my character instead of loading smoothly in the distance. I've already set LOD and related options to High, Far, or Very Far where available.
My system has an RTX 5070 Ti, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB MSI M461 NVMe SSD connected to a 1080p monitor. The monitor is plugged directly into the graphics card. I've tried reinstalling Windows, using DDU and several different graphics drivers, and changing various settings, but nothing has fixed the issue.
I also noticed that copying files while modding a game caused the entire system to become extremely sluggish. My mouse moved at roughly 10 FPS, and people in voice chat could no longer hear me. When I'm doing light tasks such as watching a video or using voice chat, the SSD sometimes shows small read and write activity measured in kilobytes per second. Could an SSD, motherboard, PCIe configuration, or driver problem be causing this?
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Start by updating the motherboard chipset and other board drivers, then check the BIOS settings for the main PCIe slot. Make sure it’s running at the expected generation and that the GPU is installed in the primary slot. It would also be worth checking the SSD’s health and performance with CrystalDiskInfo and a benchmark. The M461 doesn’t have dedicated DRAM, so it may contribute to general storage slowdowns, although that alone doesn’t necessarily explain severe asset pop-in.
Because the problem happens across several games and the whole computer becomes nearly unusable during file transfers, I’d investigate storage and system stability before focusing only on graphics settings. Check the SSD’s SMART health, temperature, firmware, remaining free space, and sustained write performance. Also monitor GPU usage, VRAM, RAM, CPU, and disk activity while the pop-in occurs. If the SSD benchmark is far below normal or its health data shows warnings, try another known-good drive and test the games there. Updating the motherboard BIOS and chipset drivers would also be sensible.
By pop-in, I mean that textures and objects such as road paint, building parts, and lights appear suddenly a short distance in front of the player as I move toward them.