0) Turn off antialising in the DayZ client
1) Close DayZ client if open
2) Open AMD catalyst control center and create a profile for the DayZ executable found in the steam folder.
3) Set 'anti-alising mode' to "override application settings" and enable ANY of the other settings for the anti alising.
3.1) If selecting "none" for 'anti-alising samples', then there is no glitch.
4) Start DayZ client
5) In the opening menu screen, observe how the character is missing and that the landscape ground is missing also. This glitched graphic is also an issue in game after joining a server.