Glitches appear only when exporting through Media Encoder — Premiere direct export is fine

Hi everyone,

I’m experiencing a strange issue when exporting through Adobe Media Encoder.
When I export directly from Premiere Pro, everything looks perfect — but when I send the same sequence to Media Encoder via Queue, I get random visual glitches (broken frames, artifacts, or flickers).

Here’s what I’ve already tried:

• Updated both Premiere Pro and Media Encoder to the latest version.

• Deleted Media Cache and Media Cache Files.

• Reset Media Encoder preferences (Ctrl+Alt+Shift on launch).

• Tried both Hardware Encoding and Software Encoding — same result.

• Exporting directly from Premiere works perfectly, so the problem seems to be on the Media Encoder side.

System details:

• Device name: DESKTOP-KSKHTV7
  Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900HX @ 2.20 GHz
  Installed RAM: 32.0 GB (31.6 GB usable)
  Device ID: 3AC5D6EC-ECB2-410A-BA30-FA75179D5FD5
  Product ID: 00342-21183-14825-AAOEM
  System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
  Pen and touch: No pen or touch input is available for this display

• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070

From what I’ve read, this could be a Dynamic Link corruption between Premiere and Media Encoder.
I also tried deleting but the issue persists.

Has anyone encountered this and found a reliable fix?
Any help or insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Assaf