Strange shadows/light?

[Squatch]

I have problem with shadows/light in this game. At the maximum settings, shadows at some distance appear as "pixels, dots" and you can see it on the screenshot. When I get closer, the problem is gone. The same effect is sometimes seen in the canopy of trees or bushes. Anyone know how to get rid of this? I have reshade installed, but before you ask, the same thing happened without it.
https://imgur.com/a/OevZd9j

[Squatch]

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[TangOscar]

That is not a bug, that is the "Level of Detail" (LOD) working here. It reduce details on objects further away to reduce lag/fps drops/... . It doesn't looks nice, but does its job.

[tacio]

Really not a bug? I have the same issue and don't remember it looking so ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[yogisgoat]

I think it was changed to ease the graphics load on consoles.

[astreamuser]

This effect can be seen almost every time when looking through binoculars.

To me it looks more like a dithering artifact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither

[tacio]

So nothing one can do.

[Agima]

I know what you mean, It is how the game engine is rendering distant shadows sadly. Might be for CPU/GPU performance mind you...

The effect might be less visible the higher resolution you go. For instance, I'm playing at 1440p, but I did tested higher rendering resolution (via Nvidia supersampling) and noticed right away the the dots were barely noticeable, since the pixels are way smaller.

[tacio]

I bought (unrelated) a new monitor (2560x1440) and *bam* problem gone. So Agima was right.

[tacio]

Looks sometimes the same for me, but before it was much much worse.

[SpiraTech]

I'm using a QHD 1440p monitor and this is easily the worst thing about this game by far for me. It's an awesome game otherwise.

It looks awful and is regularly seem everywhere. It's the only game I see it in :(.

[SpiraTech]

Publicado originalmente por TangOscar:

That is not a bug, that is the "Level of Detail" (LOD) working here. It reduce details on objects further away to reduce lag/fps drops/... . It doesn't looks nice, but does its job.

There should be an option to remove it then for people with a decent card

[Agima]

Did you guys tried the game now since the update?

They seem to have change something in how the game is rendering shadows now. I don't see any dithering/pixels effect anymore!

[yogisgoat]

This is interesting. I'm running an RTX 3070 on a 1440p Asus monitor and I have no sign of this effect. After seeing Tasx's pictures I looked very closely at my screenshots and there's nothing like it. Maybe a driver issue?

[Squatch]

Publicado originalmente por yogisgoat:

This is interesting. I'm running an RTX 3070 on a 1440p Asus monitor and I have no sign of this effect. After seeing Tasx's pictures I looked very closely at my screenshots and there's nothing like it. Maybe a driver issue?

It is not visible all the time. Mainly in very strong sunlight and after zooming in with binoculars. While walking it cannot be seen, but when zoomed in it is very visible. The latest update seems to fix this, but not completely, as there are places where this effect is still visible. For example here https://imgur.com/a/So4H2Oe. And like you say you are playing 1440p. I play 1080p and it looks like the higher the resolution the less you see this effect. Apparently it is probably related to the resolution.

[Chiquita Banana]

I buy this game yesterday, and i have the same Strange Shadow/light. At the first time, i think my GPU is corrupted.....then i found this thread, and i am not the only one lol