Quote Originally Posted by Darkshade View Post
Has to be a software/hardware/OS conflict somewhere then. It looks like the .DDS/.DAT sheet the game is reading from is improperly handling the alpha layers of the background and rendering them improperly. As I said before, this has only happened when my card overheated or a game had been running a long time so my situation might be different. Good luck.
I'm beyond thinking it has anything to do on my end, because I know many other people having this issue. I'm planning on doing a full uninstall and reinstall; what concerns me with this method is I don't believe the files are corrupted or I'm missing files because the effects show up when I'm very far away and very close up. So the effects are there.

Anyways I'll keep you all posted on this, and see if this helps to fix the problem!