Please fix the shadows in this damn game

[hellrzer]

no amount of tweaks to settings that are available fixes this crap. way light is processed anymore is annoying. ground base shadows an lighting is odd as hell, square of light an everything else is pitch black at sun set? flashing stations. inside my ship flashing like strobe light when look at panels. i struggle stay into game anymore bc how broken the lights an shadows are. even Asteroids when in planet rings can act wonky as hell when trying mine or bounty hunt.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

there are two ways of contacting support

Issue Tracker

issues.frontierstore.net

Frontier Support

customersupport.frontier.co.uk

posting here is really not one of them but ya you can vent your Frustration till your hearts content if you find it helps

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

I don't know if this applies to the issues you are having, but if you have set it to ultra, reduce the "Directional Shadow Quality" to high, it might fix a lot of the flickering shadows. The ultra setting is ultra broken.

 

[Freyar]

I've had to reduce directional shadows to low. Anything but Low has it flicker.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

I've had to reduce directional shadows to low. Anything but Low has it flicker.

For what it's worth, I still have those on ultra and it's fine. Only have flicker issues with the other setting on ultra. But YMMV, obviously.

 

[AngryAntz]

It probably effects different cards differently. I had reduce mine down to medium shadows, it hasn't eliminated it, but it's an improvement.

 

[Zapgun]

My advice, disable all shadows using the graphics config override... saves you having to look at the horrible things.

 

[Morbad]

It probably effects different cards differently.

Not appreciably. I have AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs and the problem is apparent on all of them.

Degree of flickering is unpredictable, but missing or flickering frustums and occlusion issues are an essentially universal issue with directional shadows in the current version. It's not always apparent in all scenarios, but if they have shadows enabled and go looking for it, they will almost certainly find examples of it.

Of course I don't have any problems.

I'd bet almost anything that if I sat down in front of your systems with the game running, I could find glaring issues with the shadows.

But out of interest I want to know how to do this?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
    <Shadows_Low>
        <Profile_General>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
            <Frustum1>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum1>
        </Profile_General>
        <Profile_PlanetApproach>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
            <Frustum1>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum1>
        </Profile_PlanetApproach>
        <Profile_PlanetSurface>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <FrustumZeroCanBeOverridden>1</FrustumZeroCanBeOverridden>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
            <Frustum1>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum1>
        </Profile_PlanetSurface>
        <Profile_StationInterior>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
        </Profile_StationInterior>
        <Profile_AsteroidField>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
            <Frustum1>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum1>
        </Profile_AsteroidField>
    </Shadows_Low>

You can put that in your GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml (located in "%LocalAppData%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics") or replace your current file (assuming you don't want to keep the rest of your overrides, should you have any) with the file I've attached to this post (after removing everything after the ".xml").

 

[BL1P]

Not appreciably. I have AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs and the problem is apparent on all of them.

Degree of flickering is unpredictable, but missing or flickering frustums and occlusion issues are an essentially universal issue with directional shadows in the current version. It's not always apparent in all scenarios, but if they have shadows enabled and go looking for it, they will almost certainly find examples of it.



I'd bet almost anything that if I sat down in front of your systems with the game running, I could find glaring issues with the shadows.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
    <Shadows_Low>
        <Profile_General>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
            <Frustum1>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum1>
        </Profile_General>
        <Profile_PlanetApproach>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
            <Frustum1>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum1>
        </Profile_PlanetApproach>
        <Profile_PlanetSurface>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <FrustumZeroCanBeOverridden>1</FrustumZeroCanBeOverridden>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
            <Frustum1>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum1>
        </Profile_PlanetSurface>
        <Profile_StationInterior>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
        </Profile_StationInterior>
        <Profile_AsteroidField>
            <NumFrustums>0</NumFrustums>
            <Frustum0>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum0>
            <Frustum1>
                <EndDistance>0</EndDistance>
            </Frustum1>
        </Profile_AsteroidField>
    </Shadows_Low>

You can put that in your GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml (located in "%LocalAppData%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics") or replace your current file (assuming you don't want to keep the rest of your overrides, should you have any) with the file I've attached to this post (after removing everything after the ".xml").

Brilliant thank you !
Anyway to make Anti Alias better ?

My specs are in sig.