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Shadow striping issue


Zerosleepless

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I'm having this weird issue where the shadows are all striped and stringy , I've seen many people have this .

I don't care much when it happens in environments , but what pisses me off is when it happens to my char while i'm trying to take screenies.

Not only do the shadows look odd , they also are cast in weird places and tend to cloud the eyes, i literally cannot get decent pics unless i stand directly in front of a light source.

 

here's an example :

 

 

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Posted

Looks like a Normal Map problem.

But just from your description is hard to tell if this can be the cause.

 

Posted

Shadows in Skyrim are a pain in the ass, may be because of bad setting of iblurdeferredshadowmask and stuff, also that shadow distance the lower is set the best quality you get, anyways here is a list of values you should look for your inis and tweak them to your taste (don't forget to backup first):

 

Btw this are my values they may or may not work for you.

 

 

 

Skyrim.ini

[Display]
fShadowLODMaxStartFade=1000.0
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096

SkyrimPrefs.ini

[Display]
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=8
fInteriorShadowDistance=2000.0000
fShadowDistance=8000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
iShadowSplitCount=2
iShadowMode=3
iShadowMapResolution=4096
fShadowBiasScale=0.1500
iShadowMaskQuarter=4
iShadowFilter=3

 

 

 

 

Posted

Shadows in Skyrim are a pain in the ass, may be because of bad setting of iblurdeferredshadowmask and stuff, also that shadow distance the lower is set the best quality you get, anyways here is a list of values you should look for your inis and tweak them to your taste (don't forget to backup first):

 

Btw this are my values they may or may not work for you.

 

 

 

Skyrim.ini

 

[Display]

fShadowLODMaxStartFade=1000.0

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096

 

SkyrimPrefs.ini

 

[Display]

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=8

fInteriorShadowDistance=2000.0000

fShadowDistance=8000.0000

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=4096

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096

iShadowSplitCount=2

iShadowMode=3

iShadowMapResolution=4096

fShadowBiasScale=0.1500

iShadowMaskQuarter=4

iShadowFilter=3

 

 

Thank you both for answering , the values you provided seems to "alleviate" the issue noticeably, from what i can tell it happens a lot less and is less noticeable so yay :lol:

I'll keep tweaking the INI files since they're obviously the key to this problem.

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