Shadow Striping outside

[plaxeko]

So I have been playing on the 12.1 catalyst drivers for a while now without any problems(12.2 causes serious problems with my radeon 5870 and textures in skyrim) I don't think this is causing the shadow striping outside though. First I noticed I was getting shadow striping on semi vertical area's in the snow. Then I noticed that it was happening on the grass in medium range to even close distances. It shows and as you get closer to the area that is shadow striping, this goes away... This has never been an issue before and I am not sure what is going on now. I am thinking of installing 12.2 to see if it works now and fixes this problem, but I am under the impression that catalyst 12.3 will fix this issue and it's not something Bethesda could fix anyway... I don't know what to make of it, but it is messing up my game and I JUST did a clean install only a few weeks back... God I don't want to do all those tweaks again. lol. I have tried to deactivate any mod that changed textures...this doesn't fix it...

 

Thanks ahead of time for any feedback guys.

 

Anyway, here is a list of the mods I am running:

 

Skyrim.esm Active

Update.esm

JSwords.esm Active

ArmedttTeeth.esm Active

breezehomelightfix.esp Active

BreezehomeLightingFix.esp

SoS - The Dungeons.esp Active

SoS - The Wilds.esp Active

SMIM_Fixes.esp Active

Birds.esp Active

BooksBooksBooks.esp Active

Crimson Tide - Blood.esp Active

EquipableMap.esp Active

general npc fixes.esp

greatwyrm.esp Active

invulnerableuniquehorses.esp Active

LydiaExchangeableArmor.esp Active

Mannequins.esp

MoreGrass.esp Active

morerain.esp Active

SabreFurBag.esp Active

Whistle.esp Active

IMAGINATOR - Visual Control for Skyrim.esp Active

brutal armor.esp Active

Cloaks - PC Only.esp Active

Cloaks - No Imperial.esp Active

Cloaks.esp Active

dragonboneweaponspack01_v01.00.esp Active

isilNarsil.esp

NA_Goldbrand_Eng.esp

BreezehomeLibrary.esp Active

lighterdragonscalesandbones.esp Active

weightlesstools.esp Active

Better Dynamic Snow.esp Active

Essential dogs v2.esp Active

Essential Frost.esp Active

Essential horses - all horses.esp Active

Essential Karinda.esp Active

Essential Shadowmere.esp Active

Essential Whiterun horses.esp Active

FasterHorses_Sprint_x1_5.esp Active

knc_resilient_dragons.esp Active

Incompatible with: Other dragons mods(Deadly Dragons etc)

Lush Grass.esp Active

WATER.esp Active

WATER - Get Wet.esp Active

RemoveAmbientInteriorFog.esp Active

RevampedExteriorFog.esp Active

torchradius.esp Active

VendorsHaveMoreMoney.esp Active

detailed cities.esp Active

enchanting freedom.esp Active

Killmove +.esp

essentialfollowers.esp Active

Better Follower Improvements.esp

FollowerWander2.esp Active

Horses for followers.esp

longerdays_v1.esp Active

Bashed Patch, 0.esp Active

−Unrecognised Plugins

 

Reorder these by hand using your favourite mod ordering utility.

 

biggergiants.esp Active

biggermammoths.esp Active

dd.esp Active

fixedeyeadaptation.esp Active

biggerbears.esp Active

bladessmithing.esp Active

breezehomenoblebed.esp Active

essential horses.esp Active

essentialdogs.esp Active

get out of my bedroom.esp Active

horsesignorecombat.esp Active

lt_better_horses_uninstaller.esp Active

lt_dragonplate_should_be_better_than_daedric.esp Active

private_nokillblur_test.esp Active

craftable blades armor.esp Active

skyrim hunting overhaul.esp Active

wulfharth's dragonbone weapons.esp Active

AttTWeapons1.esp Active

AttTWeapons2.esp Active

AttTWeapons3.esp Active

Essential Markarth horses.esp Active

Essential Riften horses.esp Active

Essential Solitude horses.esp Active

Essential Windhelm horses.esp Active

srmcompanioncart.esp Active

spawnaxe.esp Active

BabyFacedLydia.esp Active

[Bitdman]

Hello plaxeko!

 

I'm getting fed up with these shadows also. I loaded the 12.3 drivers and nothing has changed. This is a real immersion buster. The shadows jump around and seem to flicker all over the place. Sorry I don't have an answer for you but I'll google it and see what I can come up with. Hopefully someone will post an answer soon.

[SikSikSikki]

This isn't going to be as helpful as I wanted, considering I don't have the link handy, but I do remember seeing a mod somewhere on the nexus that was supposed to remove those annoying striped shadows.

[plaxeko]

This isn't going to be as helpful as I wanted, considering I don't have the link handy, but I do remember seeing a mod somewhere on the nexus that was supposed to remove those annoying striped shadows.

 

 

There is definitely is a mod for shadow striping, but it doesn't work on the stripes outside. The thing is, I haven't seen this before, this just came up for whatever reason...I tried to uninstall... but that didn't help. ugh.

[plaxeko]

Update:

 

So after uninstalling, ruining my perfect STEP mod that I carefully modded, I slapped all my mods together via NMM and just copied my old ini files back in..sloppy and I think I am paying for it in frame rate... which I don't care about any more because frankly I have become obsessed with tinkering with the games graphics eg. mods instead of actually playing the game...Anyway... I think the last patch (1.5...) really screwed with the shadow's. The grass have shadow's thing mentioned in the patchnotes are the culprit I think... Anyway to disable the shadow's on grass only??

[Guru82]

I really don't know if this will fix it, but you could try the following:

SkyrimPrefs.ini;

[Display]

fShadowBiasScale=1

 

Try it, see if it makes a difference.

 

I had problems when taking screenshots for ATI Anti-Aliasing Pixelization Hotfix. If you have a look at the first second pic you will notice bad shadow banding. In the last image, I upped the fShadowBiasScale to 4 to get it crystal clear. I should give ThaBean credit for his suggestion.

Start at 1, you should see a difference. Work your way up until your satisfied.

Edited April 3, 2012 by Guru82

[plaxeko]

I really don't know if this will fix it, but you could try the following:

SkyrimPrefs.ini;

[Display]

fShadowBiasScale=1

 

Try it, see if it makes a difference.

 

I had problems when taking screenshots for ATI Anti-Aliasing Pixelization Hotfix. If you have a look at the first second pic you will notice bad shadow banding. In the last image, I upped the fShadowBiasScale to 4 to get it crystal clear. I should give ThaBean credit for his suggestion.

Start at 1, you should see a difference. Work your way up until your satisfied.

 

 

So I set it to 1 and this worked...I just checked it before I had to run to the store anyway and it seemed to work, about to play a bit and see what happens...

 

Problem is that I thought I mucked up my skyrim with my mods... So I unistalled. Last time I did STEP, took my time and optimized.... I got lazy and frustrated and just NMM installed all my mods... Game runs just fine, but lower frames as a result...

 

Damnit

[Bitdman]

Hey plaxeko!

 

I'll try raising and lowering that number and see what changes.

 

The problem is fixed though with the shadows outside.But how the problem got solved is strange. I have a Radeon HD 5870 card I don't know if this matters though, I set all the settings in catalyst control center to max then went into the skyrim launcher and changed the settings in the advanced button and set all the shadow blur and detail etc. to High and it has made the game much smoother and shadows aren't jumping and flashing all over the place!!!???

TTL

[plaxeko]

Hey plaxeko!

 

I'll try raising and lowering that number and see what changes.

 

The problem is fixed though with the shadows outside.But how the problem got solved is strange. I have a Radeon HD 5870 card I don't know if this matters though, I set all the settings in catalyst control center to max then went into the skyrim launcher and changed the settings in the advanced button and set all the shadow blur and detail etc. to High and it has made the game much smoother and shadows aren't jumping and flashing all over the place!!!???

TTL

 

Interesting. I might have to look into that as well. What is going on with these drivers and this damn game... lol

 

Keep me posted!

[DarkwingDirk]

At night, my shadows are now bright white, and all indoor lighting is blazing red. 1.5 has destroyed the game. :facepalm: