Weird tree "artifacts"

[DomC 0]

Hi all

I'm getting very strange tree "artifacting" whenever i look at them there are white dots all over the green part of the tree. Has anyone else had this or know how to stop it?

I've tried changing every setting i could, even tried re-installing the game and my graphics card drivers.

My system specs are

2500k

ATI 7850 2gb

8GB 1600 mhz Ram

All are at stock.

Thanks for any help

[SmashT 10907]

Some things for you to try:

- Disable anti aliasing

- Disable ATOC or lower it.

- Uncheck "Use application settings" in Catalyst Control Center > Gaming > 3D application settings > Anisotropic Filtering and setting the slider to 4x.

[avaint4 30]

I was just about to post a thread about this. Today I installed a new AMD 7770 1GB on another system I have in the house and tried DayZ on that card (surprisingly playable at 1080p with default "Very High" Quality Preference minus AA). But, I noticed that when looking at some trees from some viewing angles and distances they'd appear with lots and lots of little white dots within the leaves.

The distance at which the dots appears seems to be affected by the aniso setting, but even disabling anisotropic filtering altogether doesn't get rid of the problem, it just means you have to be really close to the leaves for it to show up. The card I have is factory OCd a little, but it isn't running any hotter than some reference cards I've looked at and I have a more than capable PSU. I've swapped in an 8800GTX and a GTX580, both of which run quite a bit hotter and draw more power, and everything runs just fine.

I am using the latest Catalyst drivers (whatever comes packed in the 12.8 release), so maybe it's a problem with this most recent driver release. Part of the reason I suspect that to be the case is that my MacBook Pro, which has a 6770m, runs an older Catalyst driver (from the 11.xx release package) and doesn't have this problem. When I get a chance later today I'm going to install an older driver set to see if that makes a difference.

[DomC 0]

Some things for you to try:

- Disable anti aliasing

- Disable ATOC or lower it.

- Uncheck "Use application settings" in Catalyst Control Center > Gaming > 3D application settings > Anisotropic Filtering and setting the slider to 4x.

Thanks, changing the catalyst settings worked a treat.