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    Shadows broken badly Northern Kyrat/was fine South Kyrat---temp fix found

    This shadow problem has effectively paused farcry 4 for me as its ruining the experience completely.

    Tree shadows in particular and building/mountain shadows have gone to absolute hell in the Northern Kyrat section of the game. (spoiler alert -------- problem started right after the kings bridge mission).

    Inside buildings i look down at a 45 deg angle and black soup crawls up the walls, mouse up to directly forward and its like theres no shading at all and the room is lit with stadium lighting. It happens outside too everything goes overbright and ruins all the brilliant lighting that i was so impressed with in Southern Kyrat.

    I have not changed any graphical settings (ALL ULTRA, motion blur off, HBAO+, TXAA4), game was already running fine at version 1.4 in southern kyrat, drivers are the nvidia 344.75.
    My pc specs are i7 4770k, EVGA 780ti ACX Superclocked, 16gb ram, win 8.1.

    When the problem persisted i tried juggling various graphical settings that could be related and saw no improvement.

    The game (and its shadows/lighting) have been superb up until literally setting foot in Northern Kyrat, before this my only frustration was wingsuiting into walls when i just wanted to jump (im sure im not the only one).

    On a side note it seems like most of the beta testing must of been on the southern kyrat section, the first two hang gliders i tried to use in the north were aiming straight at a rock or a tree and crashed on takeoff. good times.


    EDIT: temp workaround found

    Originally Posted by OttO8 Go to original post
    This is a Nvidia PCSS problem.

    Simply go for ultra shadows and disable PCSS wich is broken. Nvidia and Ubi are currently working on it.
    find your gamerprofile.ini which will be in the users/mydocuments/mygames/farcry4 folder

    change;

    ShadowQuality="ultrahigh"

    EnableNvidiaPCSS="0"

    and while your at it heres some other fixes gleaned from some clued in users in the forum, might aswell note them all in one spot...

    GPUMaxBufferedFrames="1" <----this seems to help alot with smoothing out the stuttering ingame (i also changed nvidia control panel option maxprerendered frames to "3")

    IronsightToggleMode="1" <----if you hate holding the aim button down like me

    I tried the lightingquality ultrahigh fix for the dark areas and it makes everything look pretty damn nice, but adds a bit of blur to the edges of the guns etc.

    Thanks a bunch for the temp workaround for the shadows OttO8, can confirm this has worked for me.

    Kudos to you sir!
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uce...ature=youtu.be is a video i made of the problem im experiencing, and it happend in all of kyrat and the himilayers not just in northern Kyrat and im using a GTX 690 4gb card and the latest nvidia drivers and i run the game on the nvidia setting ( which is what nvidia actually recommends for my card)

    Im also using the nvidia inspector fix for the black shadows, however even with out that fix and using the normal nvidia inspector setting i still get what shown in the video
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uce...ature=youtu.be is a video i made of the problem im experiencing, and it happend in all of kyrat and the himilayers not just in northern Kyrat and im using a GTX 690 4gb card and the latest nvidia drivers and i run the game on the nvidia setting ( which is what nvidia actually recommends for my card)

    Im also using the nvidia inspector fix for the black shadows, however even with out that fix and using the normal nvidia inspector setting i still get what shown in the video

    Edit: ive also noticed that when flying the buzzer or using the wing suit, i can see there is like a square around my character that can been seen when flying which removes any shadows as i fly over and then the shadows reappears as ive passed over. ill make another video to show what im talking about
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    I'm also having that "strange shadows" problem. It first happened in that himalaya prison (don't remember the name).
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    Originally Posted by Genoius Go to original post
    This shadow problem has effectively paused farcry 4 for me as its ruining the experience completely.

    Tree shadows in particular and building/mountain shadows have gone to absolute hell in the Northern Kyrat section of the game. (spoiler alert -------- problem started right after the kings bridge mission).

    Inside buildings i look down at a 45 deg angle and black soup crawls up the walls, mouse up to directly forward and its like theres no shading at all and the room is lit with stadium lighting. It happens outside too everything goes overbright and ruins all the brilliant lighting that i was so impressed with in Southern Kyrat.

    I have not changed any graphical settings (ALL ULTRA, motion blur off, HBAO+, TXAA4), game was already running fine at version 1.4 in southern kyrat, drivers are the nvidia 344.75.
    My pc specs are i7 4770k, EVGA 780ti ACX Superclocked, 16gb ram, win 8.1.

    When the problem persisted i tried juggling various graphical settings that could be related and saw no improvement.

    The game (and its shadows/lighting) have been superb up until literally setting foot in Northern Kyrat, before this my only frustration was wingsuiting into walls when i just wanted to jump (im sure im not the only one).

    On a side note it seems like most of the beta testing must of been on the southern kyrat section, the first two hang gliders i tried to use in the north were aiming straight at a rock or a tree and crashed on takeoff. good times.


    Edit: If i was going to guess it appears to be something to do with the shadow mapping and light at HIGH altitude closer to the point of light. The higher i go it gets noticably worse then improves when back at low altitude.

    Reposted in tech support forum
    same here... I didn't change anything but you can try in advanced settings under graphics settings on shadow, god rays, and anything to do with light. Initialy the contrast on lower kyrat was so bad i couldn't make out faces for a 1/2 second and the shaow areas were pitch black, after changing advanced settings it was perfect. Until.....I got the snow covered north and then if was too white and the contrast was less than perfect but still palyable for me.
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    I have the same problem! Any news ubisoft?
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    Originally Posted by I.SpeedCore.I Go to original post
    I'm also having that "strange shadows" problem. It first happened in that himalaya prison (don't remember the name).
    Ditto on the ****** up shadows in NE Kyrat.............................+ frequent flashing lights?! I'm not payin' extra for this ***!!!
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