Don't think this is the cause, but you could try running mat_specular 0 or 1 and see if that helps; don't run it whilst in a server otherwise your game will crash.
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This could work.
Obviously you can try unsubscribing and deleting the content then redownload it.
I would say verify game integrity, but with gmod it always takes a while