Wonky and Stripped Shadows

[ProphecyDestroyer]

My shadows are very bad outside and for interiors; the shadows do all kinds of weird things and make the game unplayable for me. The shadows are very pixelated and more annoyingly make a crazy strip effect. The game does this while running vanilla with all the DLC + unofficial patches, and I've never seen the shadows look normal. I've tried downloading the stripped shadow fixed mod but I didn't seem to have any result, and I tried adjusting my skyrimpref.ini but i'm sure what values to set. I'm going to attach some pictures of the issue. Please and thank you for advice/help.

 

Specs

Windows 10 Pro

AMD FX 4130 Quad Core 3.80 Ghz

8gb of Ram

BFG GeForce GTS 250 1gb (nvidia)

164gb of free hardrive space on C: where the game is installed.

 

I run the game on the medium setting with no FXXA.

 

As I stated this issue appears to be with the Vanilla game with mods having no effect. But maybe i'm wrong because I'm new to modding in general for Bethesda games.

0 0 Skyrim.esm

1 1 Update.esm

2 2 Dawnguard.esm

3 3 HearthFires.esm

4 4 Dragonborn.esm

5 5 Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm

6 6 HighResTexturePack01.esp

7 7 HighResTexturePack02.esp

8 8 HighResTexturePack03.esp

9 9 Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp

10 a Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

11 b Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

12 c Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

13 d Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp

14 e IcePenguinWorldMap.esp

15 f SkyUI.esp

16 10 Relationship Dialogue Overhaul.esp

17 11 Skyrim Immersive Creatures.esp

18 12 SoS - The Wilds.esp

19 13 SoS - Civilization.esp

20 14 OBIS.esp

21 15 dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp

22 16 RaceMenu.esp

23 17 RaceMenuPlugin.esp

24 18 OBISDB.esp

25 19 PalistovSpinningArrows_CloserQuiversLongerArrows.esp

26 1a WetandCold.esp

27 1b WetandCold - Ashes.esp

28 1c DSerArcheryGameplayOverhaul.esp

29 1d Skyrim Immersive Creatures - DLC2.esp

30 1e SoS - The Dungeons.esp

31 1f Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

32 20 Campsite.esp

33 21 Hunterborn.esp

34 22 RealisticNeedsandDiseases.esp

Further Dark Dungeons for ENB.esp

35 23 Skyrim Shadow Striping Fix.esp

36 24 Immersive Patrols II.esp

37 25 RND_HearthFires-Patch.esp

38 26 FishingInSkyrim.esp

39 27 Equipping Overhaul.esp

40 28 DeadlyCombat.esp

41 29 DeadlyCombat_GiantsAIFix.esp

42 2a Dual Wield Parrying_LeftHand.esp

43 2b RND_AnimalLoot.esp

44 2c RND_Dawnguard-Patch.esp

45 2d RND_Dragonborn-Patch.esp

46 2e RND_USKP-Patch.esp

47 2f Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

48 30 FNIS.esp

49 31 Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp

50 32 RealisticRoomRental-Basic.esp

51 33 TKAA.esp

52 34 Open Cities Skyrim.esp

53 35 Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

54 36 DeadlyCombat_ASIS_Patch.esp

(Mods that have been installed but deactivated are Relighting Skyrim, Static Mesh Improvement Mod, Climates of Tamriel-V. Maybe one of these left files behind messing with my lighting?)

SKSE Version 1.7.3

LOOT used and found 7 dirty plugins (possible cause?)

Location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Bethesda\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim

Thank you for reading this and I would appreciate some help with issue, because I haven't even started a game :sad:. I feel bad my first post is a plea for help, but I don't think I can solve this on my own.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2n8ohu9.jpg

http://i63.tinypic.com/1532wls.jpg

Edited April 15, 2017 by ProphecyDestroyer

[Algabar]

It's indeed a well known issue, that already can occur in the vanilla game. Lighting mods and ENBs might make the striped shadows worse, but they don't cause them.

 

Try installing the "Unofficial Legendary Patch" / USLEEP (BTW, you should use it anyway - it's a very useful and comprehensive bug fix patch): http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71214/?

 

USLEEP contains a fix, that SHOULD make most of these striped shadows go away.

Edited April 15, 2017 by Algabar

[ProphecyDestroyer]

It's indeed a well known issue, that already can occur in the vanilla game. Lighting mods and ENBs might make the striped shadows worse, but they don't cause them.

 

Try installing the "Unofficial Legendary Patch" / USLEEP (BTW, you should use it anyway - it's a very useful and comprehensive bug fix patch): http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71214/?

 

USLEEP contains a fix, that SHOULD make most of these striped shadows go away.

I didn't know about the Unofficial Legendary Patch thank you! After some tweaking to my skyrimpref.ini and the patch I have more smoothed out shadows but the strip issue seems to still affect the wall I posted originally. I've noticed it goes away from certain distances and angles, but that's most likely typical behavior I assume.

 

Thanks again I feel like a fool for not having USLEEP in the first place. It fixed some other minor bugs I noticed.

Edited April 15, 2017 by ProphecyDestroyer