Shadows not animated on ultra settings?

Post » Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:28 pm

I just reinstalled the game due to a ton of glitches with the shadows. If Im standing in town and theres shadows from the trees, only a few of them are "blowing" in the wind and then all of the sudden they all just stop. I have to look away, then slowly look back at them and they'll move again. As soon as I make a sudden movement they all stop moving again except for the time of day update every 8 seconds or so.

Im running a GTX 670 with Nvidias latest drivers. Ive had nothing but problems with the shadows what with this glitch, and theres lines all over the place. I cant figure it out after hours of trying to tweak the ini files based on what others online have said worked for them. Even a fresh vanilla install has this problem.

Any input appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Post » Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:26 pm

I just reinstalled the game due to a ton of glitches with the shadows. If Im standing in town and theres shadows from the trees, only a few of them are "blowing" in the wind and then all of the sudden they all just stop. I have to look away, then slowly look back at them and they'll move again. As soon as I make a sudden movement they all stop moving again except for the time of day update every 8 seconds or so.

Im running a GTX 670 with Nvidias latest drivers. Ive had nothing but problems with the shadows what with this glitch, and theres lines all over the place. I cant figure it out after hours of trying to tweak the ini files based on what others online have said worked for them. Even a fresh vanilla install has this problem.

Any input appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Shadows seem to be a pretty consistent problem in this game.

For starters, change the fShadowBiasScale value to 1.0 in your Skyrimprefs.ini. This should solve your problem with lines appearing on everything. If you're lucky, it may also cure your other strange shadow glitch.

Let me know how this helps.
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