Strange identical artefacts in certain games?

DazChief

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Hello, I am having issues that are identical but spread across certain games. For some reason i am getting horizontal lines across certain effects in games. So far it's Black Ops 1, Gothic Arcania and Fable 3.
The effect I hope you can see are feint horizontal lines.
I am not overclocking any components and have the latest drivers installed.

I have videos that show the problems:
Black Ops- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K-pn5ydjMg&list=UU-lzSe-9FD9loP5J0AV-oTA (lines in the puddle and in the trees)
Gothic Arcania- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nQbFCfFySQ&list=UU-lzSe-9FD9loP5J0AV-oTA (lines in the foliage where it meets the water)

I encountered this problem on my old PC as well a few years ago on the same instances which was very weird. I can't find a youtube video with these same artefacts as mine though, even on similar hardware.
My old system was a Q6600 with a 5850 and my new system is a 7970 with an FX 8350.
Thank you.
 
It looks like its just a texturing problem in the game. They are older games so they didn't have HD textures so you can expect anomalies when you ramp them up to full HD. The very blocky shadows of the foliage in the second one are the biggest giveaway that not an exorbitant amount of graphics work was done in it.
 

DazChief

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Thank you for the reply, what gets me though is that while watching the same game on youtube those problems aren't visible. The actual effect as well is the same across both games which gets me to think that the problem may some thing else.

Edit. I should be more specific but I mean to say that when I view the game on YouTube I view it from other peoples pc's and the artefacts I see on my machine aren't present on their machine.