Rvrstyxx Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) I recently reinstalled skyrim and now my shadows are all messed up; the shadows follow the camera, they don't line up with things, there is a large squareish shadow that seems to be following my character, shadows flash etc. It has rendered the game unplayable for me. Last time I installed Skyrim I also had this issue, and changing the bdeferredshadows setting fixed it but this time it makes no difference at all. I'm at a loss, I can't find a fix for this that works. I'm about to try re-reinstalling, but I'd rather not have to. Does anyone know if there's another fix I could try? This is a common issue but the stock solution seems to be changing the deferred shadow settings from 0 to 1, or 1 to 0, and neither made any difference. Edit: It seems I was changing the wrong Skyrim Prefs folder? Previously when I've made tweaks to the ini i changed the file found in the Skyrim>Skyrim folder. However, I found another skyrimprefs file in my games>skyrim. So I copied it over and launched the game and lo hand behold, shadows fixed. I guess this thread can be closed now. Edited July 23, 2014 by Rvrstyxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimkal Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 To think a post from 2014 ended up helping me big time! I decided to reinstall original Skyrim after a while to enjoy the extra mods that it has over Skyrim SE, to suddenly find these weird and TRULY messed up shadows.I had the exact same issue as you! Some strange shadows following your character everywhere you go, followed by disconnected shadows everywhere. It was unplayable lol.The weirdest part is, I never had this issue many years ago, strange that a fresh Skyrim install brings this issue.Neverthless, thanks a TON Rvrstyxx, you were my savior tonight. I searched many threads and none of them had this exact problem.Best of all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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