Shadow Striping in Mass Effect 3

In Coalesced.bin, change ShadowTexelsPerPixels from 1.27324 to 4 (the value used in ME2, which did not have this problem). This fixed it for me.

An explanation of what this setting does can be found here: https://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/general-discussion/topics/ini-tweaks-and-performance-guide

ShadowTexelsPerPixel= I am not entirely sure what the definition of this setting is, but I'll tell you what I've experienced it as. Let say there is a huge mob and a small mob. If the huge mob is stand next to the small mob, and your looking at them both, the huge mob will have a very large shadow compared to the small mob. But if the huge mob is far away, its possible that the large mobs shadow will be equally as big( in pixel count) as the small mob's shadow. So what this option does is it changes not how far you see shadows, or how many shadows you see, but how many pixels on your screen shadows will take up. So if you set this sufficiently high, you will see almost every shadow from every creature. But if it isnt high enough, you will start to see the very smallest (pixel count) shadows no longer render. So to define this line in other words it could be called "Amount of screen space taken up by rendered shadows". Larger shadows taking precidence.

Basically, if the value is too low, then the game will limit the amount of shadows displayed on a character. Some parts are shadowed, others are not, which results in the striping effect.

EDIT: I've bolded the most important parts.

@TheNoseKnows

Wow, that's the second relevant necropost I saw in a day. Must be something in the Air. 😉

A little advise, if you tell somebody to edit the the "Coalesced.bin" of ME3 you also need to tell him where he can find the Tool to do so. ME3 - Coalesced Utility

(For everyone, make a Backup of your "Coalesced.bin" before you use the tool)

Don't take this Post as a critique, that's not my intention, in the contrary, I like the fact that you try to help people.

@Forkinater

What GPU do you use?

Do you use any Mods?

@Forkinater

So "shadowdepthbias=" without a value works? Never tested that, what is the effect in game?

Did you tested with numbers below full digits like 0.08?

Also try to change "texturegroup_apl_xxx" / xxx =1024 - 512 to "1" if it is "0" could be a LOD issue as well.

Could you elaborate for me exactly what I should change the values of the APL  texturegroup?

This is what I see

TEXTUREGROUP_APL_128=(MinLODSize=256,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_APL_256=(MinLODSize=512,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_APL_512=(MinLODSize=1024,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_APL_1024=(MinLODSize=2048,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)

@Forkinater

Set "LODBias=0" to "LODBias=1")

I have not much confidence that it will help with your specific problem, but only you can test that.

I've been getting these extremely annoying shadow stripes on characters in ME3. Cutscenes seem to be fine but general gameplay, especially in social hub areas like the Normandy and Citadel, almost every character has it to some degree or other and it really just grinds my gears. Check the attached screenshots to see what I mean. I haven't really found anything on how to deal with this issue and I was hoping that someone could point out a possible fix. I have modded my game with ALOT along with a few more texture mods as well as with ME3 Graphics Tweaks and Lights and Effects. I have not yet tried to uninstall those mods and I would rather avoid doing so if possible. If anyone can point out any .ini tweaks or what have you that may address this problem I would be very grateful. Thank You.