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Constant pop-up in games caused by power supply?

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  • Power Supplies
  • Kingston
  • Intel i5
  • Dual Rail
  • Thermaltake
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May 22, 2014 9:28:55 AM

My specs:
i5 4430
Radeon R9 270
GA-H81M-H
4GB Kingston HyperxBlu
600W Thermaltake dual rail PSU

I have a problem of textures popping in extremely close whenever I walk in games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlppdH8rceQ

I was told on Reddit techsupport that my original PSU (Dell h750e-01) was poor for my setup because it was quad rail and my video card wasn't drawing enough power. I went out yesterday and bought the 600w dual rail and the problem is still there. Now I am being told that I need specifically a SINGLE rail psu. Is this really the issue that would be causing this texture pop in?

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a b ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 9:37:28 AM

It's Far Cry 3, it has no Anisotropic Filtering, it happens to me as well.
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a b ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 9:37:43 AM

try pulling the sound jack and reinserting it.

ever think about setting your brightness and contrast features up right?............. this would be within the monitors control panel.

the stuff about the PS ............. BS................... what power supply did you have and what one did you get?
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a b ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 9:37:46 AM

Looks more like a GPU/driver issue to me. I've been running a quad rail supply for the last 5 years and never seen anything like that in any game I play.
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May 22, 2014 9:38:42 AM

What you are seeing is LOD set way way way too low. Go into your settings and turn the LOD up, this has nothing to do with your power supply at all. Even if you were not getting sufficient power to the card it would not cause an issue like this, you would get freezes or very low fps spikes.

Edit: It might be called Draw Distance in Far Cry 3. Been a minute since I played it and at work and cant actually check it from here.
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a b ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 9:44:30 AM

you see how bright and out of whack that monitor is?
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May 22, 2014 9:44:42 AM

The thing is, it happens in every game I try to play. Not just Far Cry 3. I'm using Far Cry 3 as an example. So, it's not the PSU?
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a b ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 10:10:50 AM

I would seriously doubt your power supply could cause effects like that. Your GPU or GPU driver could. Just out of curiosity, when you are ingame, how much of your RAM is being used? 85-95%? I wonder if that could be an effect of pagefile access to your hard drive because your RAM is saturated?
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May 22, 2014 10:35:39 AM

How do I check how much ram is being used?
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May 22, 2014 10:36:20 AM

RageKage14 said:
The thing is, it happens in every game I try to play. Not just Far Cry 3. I'm using Far Cry 3 as an example. So, it's not the PSU?


Definitely not the PSU. I would check your driver and see if you have a global game profile enabled. If have allowed the driver to override the application settings it can easily cause issues like this as well.
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May 22, 2014 10:45:02 AM

Everything in CCC is set to "Application Settings".
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a b ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 10:59:43 AM

go into the monitors control panel and fix the brightness/over bright/contrast.
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May 22, 2014 11:03:50 AM

RageKage14 said:
Everything in CCC is set to "Application Settings".


How much disk space do you have allocated to your swap file? Also what kind of drive and what RPM does it run at? This could certainly be caused by a slower disk being used as virtual RAM (as skit75 mentioned earlier).
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a b ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 11:16:19 AM

RageKage14 said:
How do I check how much ram is being used?


Open Task Manager(Ctrl+Alt+Del) and select the Performance Tab. Then start your game and play for a few minutes. Then Alt+Tab out to see your RAM usage/saturation level.
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May 22, 2014 12:15:59 PM

I'll check that out when I get back from work and report back.
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a c 2489 ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 5:19:31 PM

What exact PSU do you have , model?
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May 22, 2014 7:31:23 PM

My physical memory usage is 59% while in-game.
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a c 2489 ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 7:33:10 PM

That is one of the most unstable power supplies on the market , could be an issue.

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May 22, 2014 7:34:24 PM

Would it cause the pop-in, though?
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a c 2489 ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 7:44:17 PM

I don't think it is but I wouldn't run my components with that supply . Driver or bad card maybe , hard to say.
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May 22, 2014 7:45:20 PM

Is my original Dell h750e-01 useless as far as putting it back in over the thermaltake one, or is it usable?
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a c 2489 ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 7:46:59 PM

It's a tossup the dell might be underpowered , but the TR2 is just risky.
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a c 2489 ) Power supply
May 22, 2014 7:50:42 PM

Much better than what you have.

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May 23, 2014 2:18:59 PM

So, I upgraded my power supply and I even put in a brand new R9 270x fresh out the box and the texture pop in is still happening.
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a b ) Power supply
May 23, 2014 3:11:57 PM

Maybe, it is the monitor...

You should make sure you don't have any older video drivers on that machine. I know there was a tool created recently that would do this type of search for you. I forget who created it.
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May 23, 2014 3:15:37 PM

There wouldn't be any, as I did a fresh install of Windows 7.
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May 23, 2014 3:16:52 PM

Every part of the computer is now new except for the hard drives, but I have three different hard drives in it and I've tried installing games on all three and I still get the same errors.
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a b ) Power supply
May 23, 2014 3:39:52 PM

I would of expected more RAM usage while playing that game. 2.5GB-2.6GB of 4GB used isn't close enough to saturation for pagefile access. Try you PC on a friend's monitor? I don't know what else to suggest. Did you format the drive before re-installing Windows? If not, any "older" driver is likely still there. Re-installing Windows only overwrites system files if you don't re-format it first.
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May 23, 2014 4:31:08 PM

I reformatted all my hard drives before installing windows.
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