ParrotManzz

Not at all. Here are some screen shots- i'd take video but i have no way to. Thanks! EDIT: I accidentally a word.

Okay, I know there are a ridiculous amount of shadow problems with Skyrim, but I've been googling for 3 days and haven't found any similar problems to mine. Here's the lowdown on my issues: Whether I'm inside or outside, pretty much anywhere in the game, if I walk towards an object/npc/whatever that has light on it, It becomes dark. When I'm standing still, there are no issues. Also, if an npc is walking towards me and I am standing still, there are no issues. If i am in the shadows, there are no issues. When indoors, the more light sources there are around, the more problems i have. For example: in the mages guild, when you first enter, you are surrounded by four torch stands with three torches each. The problem is heavy here. If you walk beyond that, to where the room is lit by only a large circular magical-light-well thing, there are no issues. If I am standing still and look around, anything that i look towards that has light on it gains a shadow. For example: if there is a box in the sunlight on the ground, and i am looking up, if i look downwards, while the camera is moving the box gains a shadow. ON NPCs: If i am looking toward or moving toward an NPC, they gain distorted shadows on their faces and clothing, and a whitish trail in the shape of their model lags less than a second behind them. The most frustrating part of all this is that the worst of it goes away if i switch to third person. All of the character model problems do, at least, and most of the shadow flickering. The only issues left in third person are that Shadows disappear until you are under them. That would be all well and good if I didn't hate third person view. The problems also seem to go away when in the presence of less light sources, for example, if the sun is blocked out by weather, or if there's only one ambient light source in a cave. Another huge problem is that almost all of the shadow-fixes that I've found involve modifying either skyrim.ini or SkyrimPrefs.ini. I have tried many of them with SkyrimPrefs.ini, but that seems to do nothing. I even removed the file from the game folder and nothing happened. The reason i've only been trying them with SkyrimPrefs.ini is I have no Skyrim.ini. I have low, medium, high, skyrim_default, etc. etc., but no Skyrim.ini. I've had Skyrim for about 4 days total, and this problem has been there the whole time. First i played it unmodded, to see if it worked, and when I encountered that problem I downloaded the unofficial patches to see if that would help. Spoiler, it didn't. My system specs are as follows: CPU: Intel® Core2 Quad CPU speed:@2.40 GHz @2.40 GHz GPU:Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT VRAM:512 RAM:4 gb I play the game on low graphics settings, though I'm pretty sure it could handle medium well enough. Thanks in advance for all your help! EDIT: An album of images of the glitches can be found here

Okay, I know there are a ridiculous amount of shadow problems with Skyrim, but I've been googling for 3 days and haven't found any similar problems to mine. Here's the lowdown on my issues: Whether I'm inside or outside, pretty much anywhere in the game, if I walk towards an object/npc/whatever that has light on it, It becomes dark. When I'm standing still, there are no issues. Also, if an npc is walking towards me and I am standing still, there are no issues. If i am in the shadows, there are no issues. When indoors, the more light sourcesthere are around, the more problems i have. For example: in the mages guild, when you first enter, you are surrounded by four torch stands with three torches each. The problem is heavy here. If you walk beyond that, to where the room is lit by only a large circular magical-light-well thing, there are no issues. If I am standing still and look around, anything that i look towards that has light on it gains a shadow. For example: if there is a box in the sunlight on the ground, and i am looking up, if i look downwards, while the camera is moving the box gains a shadow. ON NPCs: If i am looking toward or moving toward an NPC, they gain distorted shadows on their faces and clothing, and a whitish trail in the shape of their model lags less than a second behind them. The most frustrating part of all this is that the worst of it goes away if i switch to third person. All of the character model problems do, at least, and most of the shadow flickering. The only issues left in third person are that Shadows disappear until you are under them. That would be all well and good if I didn't hate third person view. The problems also seem to go away when in the presence of less light sources, for example, if the sun is blocked out by weather, or if there's only one ambient light source in a cave. Another huge problem is that almost all of the shadow-fixes that I've found involve modifying either skyrim.ini or SkyrimPrefs.ini. I have tried many of them with SkyrimPrefs.ini, but that seems to do nothing. I even removed the file from the game folder and nothing happened. The reason i've only been trying them with SkyrimPrefs.ini is I have no Skyrim.ini. I have low, medium, high, skyrim_default, etc. etc., but no Skyrim.ini. I've had Skyrim for about 4 days total, and this problem has been there the whole time. First i played it unmodded, to see if it worked, and when I encountered that problem I downloaded the unofficial patches to see if that would help. Spoiler, it didn't. My system specs are as follows: CPU: Intel® Core2 Quad CPU speed:@2.40 GHz @2.40 GHz GPU:Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT VRAM:512 RAM:4 gb I play the game on low graphics settings, though I'm pretty sure it could handle medium well enough. Thanks in advance for all your help!