A few friends and I purchased and downloaded the DayZ game off of the Steam Summer Sale. We fired it up and each of us found the menu to be rendered in a horrible quality with words that we could barely read. It looked like everything was blocky and extremely pixilated. We tried to adjust our settings on our individual laptops and found that none of our resolutions were on the drop down menu. One of our group went into the configuration files and added his resolution in and tried to change it to that in the game but nothing changed. This is happening on two laptops running Windows 7 and two running Windows 8. All of us have graphics cards ranging from i3 to i7. I was able to load and spawn on a server in the game but nothing rendered well and I experienced horrible frame-rate drop that threatened to freeze the game.
We are also experiencing a large loading cursor when the game first fires up from the Steam client.
I, myself, am also experiencing a problem where even though my cursor will appear on the screen, it will not visually move even though I can select menu options with it but I have to guess where it is. If I left click after moving the cursor, it will appear in a new location after a few seconds of waiting.