Black Box on screen

I have been playing for 20hrs+ for no problems, I finished part 5 of the story. No problems, zero! then, I was walking in the crossroads and noticed there is a black box in the left hand side of the screen. I thought at first the problem was with my monitor. I exited the game and the black box disappeared. Tried to rerun the game and the black box reappeared. 
tried tinkering everything from the menu, tried to reinstall my graphics drivers. tried to verify cache on steam, nothing works.

Here's my system for reference:

NVidia GeForce RTX 4070Ti Super; Intel core i9 14900k ; 64 gb RAM ;  and plenty for SSD Storage free on my PC.

Also attached screenshots of the black box...

I hope this gets fixed cause it is ruining a really immersive experience for me.