Smoke/Fog effects broken and "blocky"

Asked for help on reddit with no luck. I've been playing EA since launch and originally was on an old crappy amd cpu with an rx570 gpu. Low fps and had to be on low settings but playable and no wierd issues. Now I've upgraded to a 7800x3D cpu with a 7800X gpu and while I have stable fps and can play on high settings with no issues, every single "smoke" or "fog" effect (i.e. delirium, sulphur cavern map, etc) its completely blocky/pixelated. Completely unbearable on a deli map. I've un/reinstalled all drivers. All drivers are up to date. I've tried every combination of settings and both vulkan and directx12. I've tried deleting shader cache manually and also reseting cache on the AMD Adrenalin software. On Adrenalin software I haven't enabled any "extra" features. Need help please, I want to run juiced deli maps like I was in 0.1 but its completely intolerable playing with a fully pixelated map. I built a completely new PC just for poe2 (I don't play any other games) and this is absolutely killing the experience.


Example images of the problem:
-The 3rd and 4th are better examples of the issue than the first 2

https://imgur.com/a/ww36cXE

I have the same exact issue on a 5800x paired with a 7900xtx, recently upgraded from a 5700xt, never had any issues with the previous setup in 0.1, tried almost evrything expect a fresh install of windows.
I hope we get some answers.
I also want to point out that POE 2 is the only game behaving like this.