After a lot of troubleshooting over the past couple of days, I tracked the issue down to a misstep I made with xLODGen. I re-did that step and everything is working fine now.
yo, any idea what's up with my world map? flickering triangles of 'land' are in the water
Using STEP v0.3.0b. I'm only using STEP mods, using Mod Organizer 2, I'm not using an EMB, and my computer specs are: Intel core i5-6600k CPU @ 3.50GHz | Ram: 16 gigs | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970