Shadow Striping in Mass Effect 3
Hi For some reason I am getting horrible shadow striping in ME3 on dynamic shadows outside and sometimes inside of cutscenes. The vast majority of the time cutscenees are fine but the second the cut...
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I use a GTX 1080 ti, latest drivers, just checked for new ones yesterday. I use a ALOT texture mod. I made my game vanilla and tried going in game again to see if it was the mod ALOT but it wasnt.
I vanilla my me3 by renaming the folder to "bak mass effect 3" and then I install mass effect 3 through origin as if it was never installed. After installation, I recheck the game. Oh and I delete my gamersettings.ini file and create a new one by starting up the game or running the me3 configuration tool, setting up my display settings and saving the changes.
It's so unfortunate this happens. I forgot to mention that I reinstalled the latest gpu drivers properly through DDU but that made no difference. The only setting that changes anything about the striped shadows is shadowdepthbias=
The lower the number, the thinner the stripes are, meaning they are spaced closer together. Higher numbers closer to the end spectrum of 1 reduce dynamic shadows but create larger, more pronounced shadow stripes.
Not sure if i shoukd mention this but this issue was happening before I got my GTX 1080 ti. I had a 1080 before this and I had the same issue as now.
I vanilla my me3 by renaming the folder to "bak mass effect 3" and then I install mass effect 3 through origin as if it was never installed. After installation, I recheck the game. Oh and I delete my gamersettings.ini file and create a new one by starting up the game or running the me3 configuration tool, setting up my display settings and saving the changes.
It's so unfortunate this happens. I forgot to mention that I reinstalled the latest gpu drivers properly through DDU but that made no difference. The only setting that changes anything about the striped shadows is shadowdepthbias=
The lower the number, the thinner the stripes are, meaning they are spaced closer together. Higher numbers closer to the end spectrum of 1 reduce dynamic shadows but create larger, more pronounced shadow stripes.
Not sure if i shoukd mention this but this issue was happening before I got my GTX 1080 ti. I had a 1080 before this and I had the same issue as now.
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.
- I'm sorry, I assumed that you understood that I was only referring to the variable shadowdepthbias and not the actual value being nothing. I have never tried setting shadowdepthbias to "shadowdepthbias=".
I have tried a range of values between o and 1 and none of them make the effect of th3 shadow striping go away. And yeah I tried a lot of values between o and 1 like 0.008, 0.030, 0.012, etc.
I will try the texture group tweak when I get on my pc and report back if it works or not. 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)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.
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