Skyrim shadow test with fshadowdistance=2500

(view in 1080p)

part 3 of the exterior shadows test. With fshadowdistance=2500 shadows are GREATLY improved, however with a lower setting shadows pop in which is unacceptable.

This is not a good solution to fixing the terrible exterior shadows, but unfortunately for me and many others it's the only setting that affects them. I personally use fshadowdistance=8000 and deal with the blockiness, because the shadow pop-in with lower settings is even worse.


These improved shadows are using these stock ini settings:

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=1024
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048
iShadowMapResolution=4096

The minor stuttering could be due to uploading to youtube and recording new video at the same time.

[mrsparkle]

To be honest it's been a long time and I don't remember. I do know I experimented with it and the only setting that affected up close shadow quality was fshadowdistance.

[TheOnyxMage]

Putted that thing to 150 its awesome looking!

[ibigfire]

You should have looked up and moved a bit to show what the pop-in is like now.

[youngjeezus]

Doe you know what fShadowLODStartFade does?