Occasional graphics glitches - gif in description

[elitegmr]

After following the beginner's guide on the skyrimmods reddit, along with adding optimized vanilla textures, I get a random graphical tear / polygon / artifact "thing" flashing on my screen for only a frame or two, every few seconds to minutes (very random).

 

The glitch looks like this: https://gfycat.com/ReflectingHighlevelBunny - the different artifacts could be polygons from a mountain, random objects, I think it came from a horse one time too.

 

I went through their troubleshooting guide, and it still happens (starting SKSE without mod organizer).

 

EDIT: Another thing of note is that it only seems to happen outside. And I tested without any mods at all, so no ENBoost or anything, and it still happens.

 

 

My specs are as follows:

Desktop: intel i7 2700K quad 3.50 GHz, EVGA GTX 960 4GB, system RAM: 4GB, 333 GB free HDD.

Windows Path: C:\Games\Steam2\SteamApps\common\Skyrim

Steam Legendary edition, so most recent patch + all DLCs (and I have optimized vanilla textures mod, so that's like having the HD DLC too)

Mod Organizer 1.3.11, SKSE 1_07_03

Using beginner's guide, so I have things like LOOT, ENBoost, and TES5Edit with cleaned master files. (no wrye bash yet though, I figured I'd do that after adding mods)

Mods so far: USLEEP, SkyUI, optimized vanilla textures, SMIM (Static Mesh Improvement Mod) - glitches were happening before & after these things were added.

Not sure how to do a LOOT log, the guide seems outdated, but here's my mod organizer load order:

Skyrim, Update(cleaned), Optimized Vanilla Textures HD, Dawnguard(clean), Optimized Dawnguard Textures HD, Hearthfires(clean), Optimized Hearthfires Textures HD, Dragonborn(clean), Optimized Dragonborn Textures HD, USLEEP, SkyUI, Static Mesh Improvement Mod, Merged Patch

 

Any help would be appreciated, if you need any more info let me know. I've tried to look up this issue but I don't know what the name for this would be, though I did end up discovering what z-fighting is (I also have that, with the lines on the distant mountains, but it's not too too bad).

Edited January 1, 2018 by elitegmr

[BinaryMessiah]

First thing, use Wrye Bash and make sure all mods are green. This might be a physics issue though. Is your game running faster than 60FPS? If you're using ENB then it won't.

[elitegmr]

Just installed Wrye Bash and checked, and yes everything is green. As for fps I have vsync on via enblocal.ini, and fraps confirms that I'm at a steady 60 fps 99% of the time (and this graphics glitch I'm having occurs with or without fraps).

 

Looking up more about similar issues, the random polygons might be a meshing thing, but my only nif files are from SMIM (Static Mesh Improvement Mod) and the glitches happen with or without SMIM.

 

Still haven't found any examples online of anyone else having this specific issue, though.