Shadow LOD problem, need help

[Bobby Digital™]

Shadows are changing resolution/quality when i get to around 10 feet from them. My problem is that there is some sort of shadow lod "bubble" around me in a 10' radius. When i get closer to a shadow (for example a trees shadow) it renders them to full quality. If the shadow is more than 10' away, the quality is halved and is pixelated.

I have tried all of the ini tweaks i thought were relevant, but everything I have tried does not fix this problem.

Has anyone figured this out?

[HaloEliteLegend]

I think I noticed this one or two times, but nothing quite as jarring as you explained. What GPU are you using? I've heard there were people who had some LOD problems with textures, shadows, etc. somewhat similar to what you're describing.

Also, what are your graphics settings set to?

[Bobby Digital™]

Hi Halo, thanks for the reply. I have fixed the "pixelated" part... that was just the shadow filters in the .ini

However the overall quality is still halved past 10 feet, I can actually see the change to the shadows quality 10 feet infront of me to all shadows.

My settings are complicated as I have had to ini tweak pretty much everything to get the fidelity and fps i desire. I will post my prefs.ini

[Bobby Digital™]

[Display]
flocalShadowMapHalveEveryXUnit=750.0000
focusShadowMapDoubleEveryXUnit=450.0000
fShadowBiasScale=1.0000
fDirShadowDistance8000.0000
fShadowDistance=8000.0000
uiOrthoShadowFilter=2
uiShadowFilter=2
iShadowMapResolution=1024
uPipboyTargetHeight=700
uPipboyTargetWidth=876
iVolumetricLightingQuality=0
bVolumetricLightingEnable=0
bSAOEnable=1
iDirShadowSplits=3
bVolumetricLightingForceCasters=0
iTiledLightingMinLights=40
bComputeShaderDeferredTiledLighting=1
iMaxFocusShadowsDialogue=4
iMaxFocusShadows=4
bForceIgnoreSmoothness=1
fBlendSplitDirShadow=48.0000
bSinglePassDirShadow=1
bEnableWetnessMaterials=0
fTessFactorMaxDistanceScale=100.0000
sAntiAliasing=FXAA
fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000
fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=256.0000
fMeshLODFadeScalar=2.5187
fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=2048.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=2844.0000
fInteriorMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=1950.0000
fInteriorMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=2600.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=3000.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=6000.0000
iMaxAnisotropy=8
iPresentInterval=0
bTopMostWindow=0
bMaximizeWindow=0
bBorderless=0
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1050
iSize W=1680
bAllowShadowcasterNPCLights=1
iScreenShotIndex=4
fMaxFocusShadowMapDistance=1000.0000
bPrecipitationOcclusion=0
iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=0
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=0
sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 "
iTexMipMapSkip=1
bEnableRainOcclusion=0
iAdapter=0
fDirShadowDistance=8000.0000
[Imagespace]
bDoDepthOfField=0
bScreenSpaceBokeh=0
bMBEnable=0
bLensFlare=0

[MAIN]
fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000

[LightingShader]
bScreenSpaceSubsurfaceScattering=0
bScreenSpaceReflections=0

General]
uGridsToLoad=5

[Bobby Digital™]

bump, moving very fast

[Starkregen]

try setting fBlendSplitDirShadow value from 48 to between 1000 and 2000

[Bobby Digital™]

that worked! thanks Om