probably not. alot of games will do this to textures if you don't have enough vram. and monster hunter worlds is one of them. turn the texture quality down one notch and it should look better.

hogwarts legacy is also notorious for this too.

If your Vram went bad you would see artifacts, pieces like long triangle of different colors through your screen changing position as you move, this is just a glitch in the game

I see. I'm definitely running out of VRAM because I use the HD texture pack and i play at 1440p and I only have 4GB of VRAM, sometimes I see textures get blurry because of it, but overall the game looks better so I kept it on. It's strange because it never happened to me before. Maybe it's Monster Hunter related.

But I had the same problem in MH: Rise (about 4 weeks ago) and according to the game I'm not over the VRAM limit.

Also lately all of my games were crashing. They just freeze and close to desktop without error. At first I thought it was my RAM OC being unstable (i used this OC for 6 years), so I increased RAM voltage and it seemed I fixed it, but I got the same crash today weeks later and now I'm paranoid. Yeah maybe the crash wasn't related to my initial problem, could have been a game glitch.

Usually when vram goes bad - and I have some experience with it when Ampere and Ada released - you see artifacts on your screen.

So far I have replaced a bunch of 3060ti and 4060ti 16gb model from pny to zotac. Because back then I thought a cheap aib model for a low-end sku is enough for my sff. Since I'd be under volting it to ensure it runs cool. Boy have I come to regret that sentiment. I won't touch anything that isn't msi or asus again.

75c is warm, but still ok

if its game specific ask in the games forum

One corrupted texture in one game is not usually an issue.

When VRAM is going you will almost always get these things to happen:

1. System instability, freezing, black screens

2. Uneven streaking / fuzz manifesting as lines (because of how draw methods work). This usually does not follow any borders of an object in a game and will appear with or without the game being open

3. Repeated game crashing for other games including the one you are playing

4. System exception linked to either memory or GPU

5. Hardware acceleration causing crashing**

^ To add to complexity of that, an overclock or board incompatibility can cause that too. Sometimes it can be caused by the RAM stick, which can be easily checked if you swap RAM A & B.

**For (5) hardware acceleration itself can cause issues on some systems. You can try disabling Steam's hardware acceleration and seeing if the issue resolves. If you run Discord, Chrome, or any other "Chromium-like" application either close or disable hardware acceleration and see if the issue resolves.

A couple days ago I encountered the issue again with corrupted and flickering water puddles.

Yesterday I installed my PC components into a new case (Meshify 3) and went from 80°C on CPU to 58°C (that's with stock cooler and i did not repaste it, because i wanted to see the results first without repaste).

Not sure about the GPU temps, my graphics card seems to be configured to run fans as slow as possible as long as it doesn't reach past 75°C. I was hitting 80°C on GPU as well before though.

I will see if it helps. I wanted a new case anyway, my old one was prehistoric (from 2007) and it was a pain to work inside it.