All of my shadows are gone in game. Turning shadows from ultra to low does nothing and when I look straight down, everything turns dark, almost like night time. I don't have SLI and this isn't the black shadows problem. Validating the game cache on Steam does nothing. Also, every time I start the game I start in mid freefall about 1km up above the lake in the top right corner of the map. Anyone might know what is happening?

i7 4770k
GTX 970
Windows 8.1