Skyrim shadow test with fshadowdistance=2500

3,618 views · Published 27 December 2011 · 0:14 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: mrsparkle001 · 2011 · Gaming

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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.

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