Annoying shadow glitch (Not flickering)

[Zaelers]

On a lot of rocks and walls in Skyrim there is a weird jail-suit-esque effect going on during certain times of day depending on the placement of the wall or rock.

 

In some cases I don't notice it, but sometimes I will walk up to a rock or wall and these banded shadows start to peel away... it is also around 30 feet in front of me, so it is pretty easy to notice. I can also see it happening to just about every shadow or shaded object that isn't glitching out like the rocks and walls.

 

I have tried nearly every .ini tweak and mod that is supposed to help this, or help something else and hoping it would help this, as well as every graphics setting, short of turning off shadows.

 

I'm running a HD6870 on 11.10 drivers, if anyone knows of any issues with this card, ATI cards in general, or other driver issues, I would be greatly appreciative if you could help me fix the problem.

[VreyAar]

Im having the same, on hd 4750 though. I see stripes and flickering shadow meshes over the rocks and I also get shadows as stripes over the body of my character when in my home, too.

Also tried everything and updated the drivers etc.

Its a game problem. Hopefully the patch will fix shadow issues.

Edited November 23, 2011 by VreyAar

[Zaelers]

So is this an AMD issue?

 

Or can anyone with a higher end nVidia card say whether or not this happens to them?

[Tetsuru]

I get this by open fires like the Jarl's place in white run and in some dungeons. It also causes fps loss.

 

Nvidia 260 GTX.

[Reddimus]

The worst I've seen it is in my house in Whiterun. Near the fire, even on max shadows it has really ugly black lines on everything.

[soot00]

The blocky jittery shadows? Try these settings, it improved them a great deal on my system

 

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=283

 

From that link....

 

 

TWEAK:

 

Here's my new settings for Skyrim shadows,

As usual, change this values in your SkyrimPrefs.ini (that can be found in:

C:\Users\*USERNAME*\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\ directory):

 

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=20

fInteriorShadowDistance=2200.0000

fShadowDistance=1800.0000

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=1024

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048

fShadowLODStartFade=1800.0000

bTreesReceiveShadows=1

bDrawLandShadows=1

bFloatPointRenderTarget=1

iShadowMapResolution=2048

fShadowBiasScale=0.4400

iShadowMaskQuarter=3

iShadowFilter=4

[Zaelers]

The blocky jittery shadows? Try these settings, it improved them a great deal on my system

 

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=283

 

From that link....

 

 

TWEAK:

 

Here's my new settings for Skyrim shadows,

As usual, change this values in your SkyrimPrefs.ini (that can be found in:

C:\Users\*USERNAME*\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\ directory):

 

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=20

fInteriorShadowDistance=2200.0000

fShadowDistance=1800.0000

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=1024

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048

fShadowLODStartFade=1800.0000

bTreesReceiveShadows=1

bDrawLandShadows=1

bFloatPointRenderTarget=1

iShadowMapResolution=2048

fShadowBiasScale=0.4400

iShadowMaskQuarter=3

iShadowFilter=4

 

Yes, I have tried those, and no, it isn't the jittery shadows... this is different. Imagine a rock having a zebra pattern for a shadow that goes light-dark-light-dark-light-dark, and only goes away when you are like 20 feet in front of it, and sometimes not at all.

[Reddimus]

This is the easiest example I can find of the issue on my end. I'm not sure if it's exactly the same for everyone else.

 

http://i42.tinypic.com/24g3jgj.jpg

[Rinverso]

I get the same effect as well. Nvidia 310M. I know it's not a high end card by any means but the game is playable on medium settings.

[VreyAar]

Happens indors only i think, especially in Breezehome, which you own. In houses of other traders light seems fine.