How I fixed my 1.7.2.5 dead soldier artifacts

[Just a Goat 25]

I just installed Arma II, OA, and Day Z yesterday. (20 Aug)

Got it working on the first shot, but quickly came across the "Dead soldier" artifacting bug. Read the gigantor 100 page thread on the hotfix, completely re-installed Day Z twice, spent 4 hours messing with settings - I literally changed every video setting there was. Didn't work.

Flushing made it worse.

Looked for ambient occlusion setting to turn off - can't, I'm not running DX10.

Re-read the huge thread. Noticed people insisting on changing overall video quality in the main menu. Had a light-bulb moment.

These are the steps I took:

Delete Day Z content in @dayz/addons

Reinstall from latest files downloaded manually from the Day Z site.

Connect to a server (pick a mostly empty one, duh)

Once loaded in, go into video options and select between various overall quality levels (very low, high, low)

Disconnect from the server entirely so that you're looking at the main game menu with the menu scene - In my case, it was a farm and some chickens and cows and crap.

Go into video settings again, and select between various overall quality levels (very low, high, low)

Set your settings the way you wish them to stay.

Exit the game entirely.

Connect to a server/launch the game again.

This brought me from crazy unplayable artifacting to no artifacting (so far). The only new step I added in there was disconnecting and adjusting my video settings in the main menu in combination with deleting my mod files and manually reinstalling.

It appears that the 1.7.2.5 dead soldiers might be fine, but there could be some sort of odd cache issue.

Hope this helps some people.

My system -

Core 2 Duo

Win XP

GTX 460

3 gigs of RAM

Edited August 21, 2012 by Uncle Scrotor

[aplum12 69]

anus

[Tweakie 199]

When you quit the game (way back to desktop) and load back in the glitches will be gone for a certain time...but they will reappear at some point.

Best fix i have read so far, is this one:

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/77963-graphics-artifacts-fix/

But i have yet to test it, since no DayZ staff will say if it is allowed, or i risk a Hive-ban

[Just a Goat 25]

When you quit the game (way back to desktop) and load back in the glitches will be gone for a certain time...but they will reappear at some point.

Best fix i have read so far, is this one:

http://dayzmod.com/f...-artifacts-fix/

But i have yet to test it, since no DayZ staff will say if it is allowed, or i risk a Hive-ban

I don't want to try that other fix either.

I exited (to desktop) and re-entered the game, restarted my PC, fiddled with things, etc. for several hours and the problem did not go away at all. It wasn't until I performed the steps listed above that they disappeared.

I really do think it's something cache related that can't be resolved while the problem-model and/or the map containing it is loaded.

If it comes back, of course I'll make note of that here.

Edited to add:

There is *one* particular server where minor artifacts have returned once; I simply fiddled with settings and they left. No problems anywhere else yet. All in all, much better than before.

Edited August 22, 2012 by Uncle Scrotor