[MODDED] white blobs

upon loading into a raid, things like trees and bushes become white blobs, and will then become normal once you get closer to them. could be an LOD thing since messing with that slider in the options helps clear up things in my immediate vicinity, but doesn't really do anything for the blobs way out in the distance. it's especially bad on woods. it doesn't always happen, but when it does, it persists in subsequent raids and even after a game/computer restart... then goes away when it feels like it. i've only tried messing with graphics settings and clearing the temp cache. has this ever happened to anyone else before?

i took a break to play something else but it looks like i had declutterer disabled before doing so, loaded up woods and the blobs remain.

i thought it could've been something related to my nvidia control panel settings but i realize that everything's default now due to me being on a fresh windows install, i went and upgraded some parts to see if performance would improve. from 16gb and an HDD, to 32gb and an SSD. i'm hoping it's not a cpu or gpu issue.

i changed two settings in nvidia control panel, and so far i haven't seen any blobs (yet) after an extended play session today and yesterday:

in "Manage 3D settings" > "Global Settings":

Power management mode (Adaptive)

Shader Cache Size (10 GB)

personally idk if the in-game graphics settings would matter here, but i may as well post them just in case:

Texture Quality: Medium

Shadows Quality: Low

Object LOD Quality: 3

Overall Visibility: 1500

Anti-Aliasing: TAA

Resampling: 1x Off

DLSS: Off

FSR: Off

HBAO: High Performance

SSR: High

Anisotropic Filtering: Per Texture

Nvidia Reflex: On

Mip Streaming: On (prior to this blobs would appear whether it was on or off)

Mip Streaming Buffer Size: 64

Mip Streaming Disk Usage Limit: 1024

so far so good, but if they come back then i'll just put my foot in my mouth or something