For Those of You Complaining About Artifacts..

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

This is a thread on how to deal with graphical glitches/artifacts

Changing sceneComplexity:

Video Tutorial^^^^

Text Tutorial:

Step 1: Start up DayZ

Step 2: Go to the Main Menu

Step 3: Click on Options

Step 4: Video Options

Step 5: Change your quality preference to something else, and then back to what it originally was

Step 6: Click on Advanced

Step 7: Change Video Memory to anything, and then change it to Default

Step 8: Change HDR Quality to Normal

Step 9: Enable Vsync and then Disable it

Step 10: Save your options

Step 11: Close DayZ

Step 12: Open up My Documents

Step 13: Go to "Arma 2 Other Profiles"

Step 14: Click whatever your profile is

Step 15: Click on your profile, it is a ARMA2OAPROFILE file

Step 16: Open it with Notepad

Step 17: Press "Control+F" to 'find'

Step 18: Search for sceneComplexity

Step 19: Change the value from 150000 to 75000

Step 20: Save the file

Step 21: Open up DayZ

Step 22: Join a server

Step 23: Repeat whenever graphic glitches reappear

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Log out and log back in (Credit - ShadowMosesOG)

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Flush the Video Memory (Credit - Lewa)

Press the "Shift" key, (hold it) and then press the minus key on the Numpad.

After that, release both keys at the same time and type "flush" on your keyboard. (without the " ")

The Screen gets black for a few seconds.

If it doesn't work, try it again. Sometimes it may take 2-3 times to work.

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Feel free to post any other fixes you may have found for artifacting below

EDIT: Added Video, Relog, and Video Flush

Edited September 5, 2012 by Prez

[Mr duck 5]

Lol?

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

Lol?

I keep seeing people complaining about artifacting when there is a simple fix that takes about 5 minutes of your time..

[thecube 0]

23 Steps I shouldn't have to do.

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

23 Steps I shouldn't have to do.

25 steps that take 5 minutes to do for a game that is in the alpha stage

[shadow_moses 50]

All I have to do to fix it is log out and then log back in and they are gone. Might wanna try that as well.

[Lewa 2]

The only thing that does fix Artifacts for me, is to "flush" the Video memory.

Basically, if you have Artifacts, press the "Shift" key, (hold it) and then press the minus key on the Numpad.

After that, release both keys at the same time and type "flush" on your keyboard. (without the " ")

The Screen gets black for a few seconds.

This fixes the artifacts in the most cases for me. If it doesn't work, try to use this Method again. (Sometimes i must do it 2-3 times)

The "SceneComplexity" method may work, but it also reduces the Detail of the World around you by a huge amount.

Edited September 2, 2012 by Lewa

[malau (DayZ) 36]

Lowering Scene complexity will help IF you have a Gfx Card that is teetering on the edge of being able to run it - ie anything with 512mb.

Everyone else with a 1gb (or 2gb card) should be able to eat Arma 2's best and ask for more.

As was said elsewhere in here, despite what DRH said, the problem cannot be the Arma engine losing the floating point because of scene complexity, because if you play A2OA then you have maybe 30+ tanks onscreen at one time plus several aircraft, x hundred AI (all of which drop their weapons when they die) and local wildlife. All of this is much more intensive and complex than anything DayZ needs to render.

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

Added video tutorial

[sasrecon 133]

All I have to do to fix it is log out and then log back in and they are gone. Might wanna try that as well.

Snap! Basically what OP said but 23 steps less...

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

All I have to do to fix it is log out and then log back in and they are gone. Might wanna try that as well.

Snap! Basically what OP said but 23 steps less...

Added relogging

The only thing that does fix Artifacts for me, is to "flush" the Video memory.

Basically, if you have Artifacts, press the "Shift" key, (hold it) and then press the minus key on the Numpad.

After that, release both keys at the same time and type "flush" on your keyboard. (without the " ")

The Screen gets black for a few seconds.

This fixes the artifacts in the most cases for me. If it doesn't work, try to use this Method again. (Sometimes i must do it 2-3 times)

The "SceneComplexity" method may work, but it also reduces the Detail of the World around you by a huge amount.

Added screen flushing

[Looks 8]

Press the "Shift" key, (hold it) and then press the minus key on the Numpad.

After that, release both keys at the same time and type "flush" on your keyboard. (without the " ")

The Screen gets black for a few seconds.

If it doesn't work, try it again. Sometimes it may take 2-3 times to work.

Any idea how to flush the video memory in DayZ/ArmA 2 if I don't have a Numpad?

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

Any idea how to flush the video memory in DayZ/ArmA 2 if I don't have a Numpad?

Sometimes on a laptop keyboard there are numbers and symbols from the numpad on your regular keyboard like in this picture:

To press these keys (the minus key is there) you have to hold 'fn'

You can try that

[TheDesigner 1197]

...naaaah. You can just reboot ArmA 2 for a temporary 10 minute fix. Rather do that than edit my ArmA 2 files. I shouldn't have to screw around with my ArmA 2 files to play DayZ.

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

...naaaah. You can just reboot ArmA 2 for a temporary 10 minute fix. Rather do that than edit my ArmA 2 files. I shouldn't have to screw around with my ArmA 2 files to play DayZ.

Rebooting Arma never works for me, I would like to get a list of various fixes up in this thread because I know what works for some people doesn't work for others.

[jblackrupert 308]

*Yawn*....another "Fix"..... Rocket is working on the graphical glitches. He said so on his twitter.

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

*Yawn*....another "Fix"..... Rocket is working on the graphical glitches. He said so on his twitter.

Sorry for giving a potential fix to the community for something that people say is a "game-ruiner"...

[Knight2000 (DayZ) 35]

The only few times i get the glitch i fix it by just alt tabbing and alt tabbing back.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Sometimes on a laptop keyboard there are numbers and symbols from the numpad on your regular keyboard like in this picture:

To press these keys (the minus key is there) you have to hold 'fn'

You can try that

I think I've found your problem. Your laptop appears to be slightly damaged.

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

I think I've found your problem. Your laptop appears to be slightly damaged.

Yeah, the keyboard broke off from the rest of the computer..

Still works though

Edited September 5, 2012 by Prez

[razorman 15]

Wierd, since i upgraded from a 285GTX to a 670GTX i get 0 artifacts or graphics bugs at all, none, nada, 0.

perhaps this whole thing is driver/card related after all & not the game?

My buddy who uses a 550ti gets them until he uses the "flush" command, then his are gone too.

[prestondemaria@gmail.com 65]

Thanks for the input! I personally haven't tried flushing. Usually changing the sceneComplexity works for me. To anyone else reading this topic, please voice your thoughts and any solutions you have found!