Successful Graphics Glitch Fix for nVidia GPU Users and Possible ATI Fix

[Yarik (DayZ) 6]

Directly from Reddit. I take no credit.

I get no karma from this. Please upvote so people can see and also fix their shit.

Okay, I did this and haven't had the graphics artifacting since, no matter what my in-game graphics settings are. I'm running a single GTX 560 TI and Windows 7.

First thing is you want to make sure your GPU drivers are up to date. Go to [1] nVidia's drivers site and find your card and update that shit. No matter how recently you did it, just do it.

Second, go to your Start menu, then Control Panel, and then nVidia Control Panel. This is going to let you configure your card IF you have the latest drivers installed. I'm not even joking about the drivers thing, update that shit to whatever the site says you should have.

Once you have NVIDIA Control Panel open, on the left side of the window you should see "3D Settings." Go ahead and click the "+" sign to expand that down if it isn't already. After that category is expanded, click "Manage 3D settings."

Now, on the main part of the window, you should be looking at a box with two tabs. One of the tabs will be labeled "Global Settings." Click that one.

Scroll down until you see "Threaded optimization" and TURN THAT SHIT OFF. It should be set to "Auto" by default, but we're not even going to fuck around with that. Turn it off.

There. You're done, it's fixed. Exit NVIDIA Control Panel, if it asks if you want to save changes, you best save that shit.

Fire up DayZ and go ahead and look at some dead soldiers to your heart's desire (you sick fuck).

EDIT: Hey, ATI card users/wiz kids/geniuses, if ATI cards have a similar setting, go ahead and look into turning it off and see if it fixes the problem. If it does, spread the word about that shit.

EDIT2: Fuckin' S128K DELIVERS with a possible ATI fix. I don't have an ATI card so I can't test it, somebody get on that shit. [2] Here's his comment.

Edited August 19, 2012 by Yarik

[void.false@gmail.com 300]

Best guide ever.

[hawkygaming 43]

Am I the only Person without graphic bugs without using this guide?

[ExoMax 4]

I'll give it a try and report back with results

[KField86 237]

Normally I don't use ATI Tray Tools but I downloaded it and changed the variable in multi-threading support. I'll post back if it works or not.

[wok 25]

I already had Threaded optimization off (I changed all those settings while trying to get a few more fps on dayz), and updated drivers about a week ago. But still saw the graphic artifacts on balota with 1.7.2.5 :(

[CamP 81]

All it took for me was switching "Video Memory" to "Default" in-game.

Edited August 20, 2012 by CamP

[BIOSEMTEX 77]

I have tested with ATI 6950 (x2 /w crossfire) latest drivers still get artifacting.

[KField86 237]

ATI fix does not work.

[Gogster (DayZ) 626]

I could kiss your ten fucking toes - this worked for me. A quick dance around the NWAF last night and all my artefact woes are gone.

BEANS!!!!

[doom4mr 135]

Did it yesterday, still has artifacts at Berezino, I'll try to set it off for Arma 2 too, currently set for Arma 2 OA only.

[shiromikan 217]

Can anyone confirm this has no negative side-effects on anything.

[Yshido 34]

I have tested with ATI 6950 (x2 /w crossfire) latest drivers still get artifacting.

Same here, but w/o crossfire

[Yshido 34]

Can anyone confirm this has no negative side-effects on anything.

There is a warning by a user for ATI HD 7xxx in the reddit forums, wich was not confirmed yet:

WARNING: To any user w/ 1 or 2 HD 7xxx series cards - At least on my system, shortly after downloading and installing ATI Tray Tools from Guru3d.com, my whole PC froze and no amount of ctrl+alt+del's would un-freeze it. I had to go into safe mode just to remove the deadly program.

[slonlo 43]

I don't care if it works or not... that shit was funny. I'll give it a try. I had no artifacts at all for a solid week, but last night they came back. "FLUSH" made it worse, but then the "memory" trick fixed it for the rest of the night.