buggs (DayZ)

BUMP! Has anyone tried updating their BIOS on their motherboards and then doing a complete uninstall/reinstall of their graphical drivers? I'm going to try this in the coming days and post my results this weekend.

I have, without success, attempted the following to fix the issue: Re-install of ATI drivers. Update to ATI beta drivers. Update to Experimental Day Z build. Re-install Day Z. Boot & Nuke the PC and re-install Windows fresh. None of the above have worked. I have noticed, however, that while in-game the GPU useage is at 100%, but it seems to spike up and down, up and down as you play. As soon as the 'minimize black screen bug' occurs,. the GPU useages drops to 0% and does not recover even if you use the previously mentioned 'flush' solution to get the game back on screen. Last night I tested this and, after using 'flush' to regain the game (with all sorts of graphical glitches), the GPU usage remained at 0%. I also noticed that when I then exited the game and came to the Day Z website I was having graphical errors on the web page. I have concldued that it is an issue with the ATI driver and Day Z. Something in Day Z seems to be causing the driver to go haywire.

I have tried this solution before and it does not work. I have also tried to experimental build and it also does not work. The game continues to do it's crash/black screen error.

I installed the beta drivers and still the issue continues. This is worrying because I doubt much will change between the launch of these beta drivers into the live version. Has there been any developer recognition of this issue at all? I feel like I'm pissing into the wind at this stage.

This is also happening to my brother using an AMD Radeon R7 series 260 card 2GB card. It does not happen to me using a nVidia 770 GTX or my other friend using a Radeon R7 240 2GB card. Has anyone tried the AMD beta drivers? It was released 17/03/2014 so perhaps it addresses the issue? I'm going to test it when I get home this evening. Edit: I know my card is not overheating. It's a brand new PC so dust is not an issue. (By brand new I mean <3 weeks old) and by using GPU-Z I've watched the temp of the GPU peak at 70 degrees celcius under full game load which is normal. I can only assume it's a driver issue or Day Z issue. I'm weary of the driver as so many others are having the issue, but at the same time, it does seem to be a video card related error.