Very Bad Graphical Tearing

[TreesHateYou 0]

I keep getting graphic tearing when I'm just running around at random. I stay pretty close to the shore, but all along it, from elektro to komarovo, I've been having very frequent problems. There are obviously patches to it, since by looking away from certain areas, I can avoid the tearing. Also, it's incredibly severe, making me completely unable to look in that certain direction without becoming completely blind.

This has been occuring since two-three weeks ago (I don't play that often, maybe just a couple hours every few days). Spots that I can remember are the western side of Cherno, the eastern side of Elektro, and the southern airstrip near Balota, looking at the airfield approaching from the south. Balota was the most recent one.

I already checked that my video card was up-to-date. I also messed around with settings in-game to make sure that those weren't the problem. Any other ideas, or is it the client?

[crusader_111 62]

Ok, to sum up quickly this is not directly client-sided but can be fixed (temporarily) by the client.

First you need to face in the direction of the graphical artifact(s) then disconnect from the server and exit the game and reload the game and server and the artifact should be gone (I tested this). Reason why this works because it reloads everything including game files and most importantly map data. Secondly you could change the "Video Memory" through the options menu to something that its not currently on (eg: High > Normal), in theory changing this will 'reset' the video memory because it has to compensate for the lower (or higher) memory allocation and thus reloading the mapping data and ridding you of the graphical artifacts...temporarily. I've personally defragmented my files, though not proven yet to fix (temporarily or permanently) should improve gameplay like FPS and system speed but mainly because of the recent DayZ updates it just relocates the associated files so will make DayZ run more smoothly because your system doesn't have to go searching around any longer than it needs to for the files it needs because its now all in the same corresponding location, on the disk that is.

After update 1.7.2.5 graphical artifacts should hopefully be eliminated from DayZ, should being the operative word so just keep your hopes up and maybe we won't have to keep using temporary fixes.

Note: I've been informed by a user of the forums that there is an old ARMA II bug where if 'Video Memory' is set to anything other than 'Default' then ARMA II doesn't use that memory which could be another reason why these grapical artifacts are appearing BUT its not been proved and these graphical artifacts have only been appearing since 1.7.2.4 so is doubtful this is a cause, but none the less can be tried as a possible temporary fix until 1.7.2.5.

Happy gaming and hope I helped,

CRUSADER

[TreesHateYou 0]

Alright, thanks, I'll try some of this and see if it helps!