for a while now, my toribash has worked fine on my new computer. but just now, all of a sudden, the graphics screwed up. I tried reinstalling, same thing happened. any ideas?

Are your shaders on?

shaders are off. I tried toggling shaders of all kinds but not much changes

Shaders of all kinds? Please explain.
What version of tb are you using?
Have you updated all your drivers?
And what graphics card do you have exactly?

Maybe the settings are changed in your graphics cards drivers.

Open it and change the 3d options to quality instead of performance, see if that works.

Glitches? Artifacts? Tearing? What do you mean? Did you get a real glitch where your Tori moved to another spot? or did your glute come back up from the ground?

Honestly, I reckon it looks badass.

I WANTS THAT GLITCH

This is a visuals glitch, not an in game glitch.

well, unless those are textured joints, then I think it's a lighting/shadow interference due to the graphics driver settings. Switch the settings to application preference to see if that makes a difference, for Dynamic Light, HDR, Dynamic Shadows, and such.

reinstalled graphics drivers ;), its all good now.