Why are there no shadows?

[thatoneguy314]

Seriously, does it bother no one else?

[G. Alexander]

My PC is bad so I can never enable shadows c:

[thatoneguy314]

No I mean when you go outside there are no shadows.

[Vita, Mortis, Careo]

No, it does not bother me.

[Autistic Himbo Next Door]

Play lonesome road with a decent PC. Lots light blazing through clouds and structures. Beautiful and haunting at the same time.
Look up some history on Ulysses S Grant before you do though. Obsedian Umbodied the man who tried to stamp out slavery in the most badass african american in apocalyptia. The naughty dogs :)

[baddude1337]

I'm not a graphics ♥♥♥♥♥ and understand this an old game with an old engine that excels in areas other than lighting, so no, it doesn't

[yourking77]

Originally posted by thatoneguy314:

Seriously, does it bother no one else?

shadows make your pc run twice as hard just to have a silluette of yourself onthe ground, i never use them even even though my computercan handle them its just not worth it.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by thatoneguy314:

Why are there no shadows?

Why don't you tunr them on in the .ini?

[Sismanski]

2021 and the game still seems to struggle with shadows. Graphic settings are set to Max. I made sure to look up the Fallout.ini and edited every shadow entry that were set to 0. Loading into the game, only the characters have shadows, but the whole world itself has none. Any further ideas? I mean the game looks pretty bad in 2021, but without shadows, it barely playable, because the whole atmosphere goes pouff.

[G. Alexander]

21 Jul, 2014 @ 2:41am

[Sismanski]

Originally posted by Ben:

21 Jul, 2014 @ 2:41am

Yes I know, that's why I wrote 2021 to begin my comment. Why so butthurt that I use an old thread to open back up? Because the problem clearly still exists...

[G. Alexander]

Make new thread :)

[Sismanski]

Originally posted by Ben:

Make new thread :)

Just disable your notifications for this one (button at top right corner). You were no help back then and you are no help now. The thread still goes all the way up to the top of the list. That's the propper use of threads if the topic still is the same.

[G. Alexander]

Just look at DN's guide lol not hard

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Sismanski:

2021 and the game still seems to struggle with shadows. Graphic settings are set to Max. I made sure to look up the Fallout.ini and edited every shadow entry that were set to 0. Loading into the game, only the characters have shadows, but the whole world itself has none. Any further ideas? I mean the game looks pretty bad in 2021, but without shadows, it barely playable, because the whole atmosphere goes pouff.

The engine doesn't cast shadows for most objects. That's just the nature of it.

You do have a few options -

First, ambient occlusion actually does more than object shadows to make the lighting feel more realistic, especially in making objects look more "grounded". You can try forcing that via your driver control panel (I've never had luck with that personally) or you can use ENB or New Vegas Reloaded. NVR currently has some major drawbacks, so ENB is my recommendation for AO.

Second, ENB does have an option for sun shadows outside - they aren't perfect, but they do improve the look quite a bit and are my recommendation. NVR actually adds FULL dynamic shadow support, but the current version is glitchy as all heck. You can try it yourself and see if you can tolerate the glitches, or wait for the next version (slated for release this autumn) for a hopefully better experience.

Third option, if you get really ambitious - you can get the ReShade ray tracing plugin working. It's a pain in the neck to get working correctly, but at lower (1080p with a 1080Ti-class GPU, 1440p with a 3080-class GPU) resolutions with a powerful GPU you can get decent performance and path-traced global illumination.

[Sismanski]

Originally posted by Salamand3r-:

First, ambient occlusion actually does more than object shadows to make the lighting feel more realistic, especially in making objects look more "grounded". You can try forcing that via your driver control panel (I've never had luck with that personally) or you can use ENB or New Vegas Reloaded. NVR currently has some major drawbacks, so ENB is my recommendation for AO.

Second, ENB does have an option for sun shadows outside - they aren't perfect, but they do improve the look quite a bit and are my recommendation. NVR actually adds FULL dynamic shadow support, but the current version is glitchy as all heck. You can try it yourself and see if you can tolerate the glitches, or wait for the next version (slated for release this autumn) for a hopefully better experience.

I was just messing around with New Vegas Reloaded and I think I know what you mean by glitchy. Sad, because it was pretty easy to setup. I messed around with the ini file a bit, which made some things better, but some other things even worse. So I guess that's no good option as you said.

I had my troubles with ENB back in the day of Skyrim. I hope I manage to get it working with FNV now, since it's a total different PC.

Thx, will look further into.