Hey guys, this is my first post here on tech support so please go easy on me if these questions have definitive answers somewhere on page 99 or so. So I haven't played Skyrim since the pre 1.5 days and it seemed that the game was playing okay on my system. Coming back to Skyrim with patch 1.6.89.0 has introduced a few things that my system doesn't like. After doing a little searching I found the introduction of grass shadows may hurt performance. Can someone please explain to me what grass shadows are? Is it when shadows are cast on grass from something else (ie: tree or player) or when the grass itself casts shadows on the ground? Also does adding the line bShadowsOnGrass=0 to both skyrim.ini and prefs.ini actually do anything? adding that line under [display] in both .ini files seems to have no effect visually, performance gains are negligible if there actually is any. By the way I also placed the variable under the [grass] section of both to see if it made a difference and once again the answer is no. Am I doing it wrong? And lastly, I either just never noticed in the pre 1.5 days or this is a new(er) bug related to grass on my system but i've noticed that at night my torch/lantern doesn't actually illuminate the grass correctly. What I mean is that certain grass such as the white tundra grass will reflect my torch light while the majority of all other grass reflects no light. The effect while using a weather mod such as RLWC is absolute pitch black grass at night with light sources on it, which overall darkens the entire scene. Is there anyway to fix this yet? BTW I'm running this game on a clean install of win7 sp1, core i3 2.13ghz, nvidia geforce 240m 1gig vram (updated to current drivers), 3gb ram. My game is also running with RLWC, Claralux, Vurt's, and Skyrim 2k textures.
