HiFor 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 cutscene ends all the dynamic shadows are striping. This seems to happen a lot and is especially noticible on worlds with high contrast light such as the hospital on the citadel. The issue also happened in the cutscene with the merc boss, i forget his name whoever the one who says Aria will sleep with him.I have tried all manner of tweaks but nothing had made the problem go away. Has anyone got any ideas or a possible fix. Is anyone else experiencing this problem as all over the internet I have seen no one with this issue?http://i61.tinypic.com/2yl769w.jpgNote the shadows appear as stripes on his back and also on shepards face. Every shadow in this room appears as stripes. This is especially noticable when things are movings as the shadows stripe up and down objects.Please can somebody help?

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.

ShadowFilterRadius in gamer settings made a big difference for me.Experiment in the 10-20 range. You will get much softer shadows, but that's what you want. You want every stripe to blur into the next stripe. (Shadow's aren't supposed to be sharp anyway.)I think perhaps the effect of this setting is connected to your game resolution and/or shadow resolution, so it will be different for different players.

@SilkOstrich Did you tried to disable "Dynamic Shadows" in the in game settings?

I'm having this same issue and I could really use someone's help. I have edited so many shadow variables (one at a time) and nothing seems to work.Before anyone suggests repairing my game or completely re installing, I've done this many times. I just want this gone. . I've tried changing shadowdepthbias to many other values in a large range between 0 and 1 and nothing actually make a it go away besides disabling dynamic shadows. Here's some screenshots of the issuehttp://m.imgur.com/a/vNqin

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holger1405
Hero+
8 years ago
@SilkOstrich

Did you tried to disable "Dynamic Shadows" in the in game settings?
Anonymous
8 years ago
Just tried and it did get rid of the issue, so it definitely seems to be the culprit. However I'm not a fan of no one having a shadow in my game. Is there any way to tweak the dynamic shadow settings in order to fix this? Sorry if I'm too demanding haha.
holger1405
Hero+
8 years ago
@SilkOstrich

@SilkOstrich wrote:

Sorry if I'm too demanding haha.

No, not at all. 😉

This post at Nexus shows how to edit shadows in ME3.

I don't know which one (if any) of the solutions mentioned there will help you with this problem. It depends not only on the shadow and LOD values, but also on your graphics hardware and drivers.
Kain_Drakan
8 years ago
Same thing here. I don't notice it at all on dark colored objects, but on light colored or white objects it's very noticeable, especially Guardians' shields.
holger1405
Hero+
8 years ago
@Kain_Drakan

Same solution, you can disable "Dynamic shadows" in game or you can try to tweak the "GamerSettings.ini" (Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame\Config) after the guides on the nexus page.
mklene
Rising Novice
5 years ago
ShadowFilterRadius in gamer settings made a big difference for me.
Experiment in the 10-20 range. You will get much softer shadows, but that's what you want. You want every stripe to blur into the next stripe. (Shadow's aren't supposed to be sharp anyway.)
I think perhaps the effect of this setting is connected to your game resolution and/or shadow resolution, so it will be different for different players.
EA_Blueberry
Community Manager
5 years ago
@mklene wrote:

ShadowFilterRadius in gamer settings made a big difference for me.

Experiment in the 10-20 range. You will get much softer shadows, but that's what you want. You want every stripe to blur into the next stripe. (Shadow's aren't supposed to be sharp anyway.)

I think perhaps the effect of this setting is connected to your game resolution and/or shadow resolution, so it will be different for different players.

Thank you for sharing, @mklene

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