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EntityofDesire
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
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[FIXED] Outdoor shadows jumping across screen @ ultra high settings

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.60.54.1020 What...
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    11 months ago

    • Outdoor shadows now move smoothly without jumping on the screen on ultra graphics settings and at different Live Mode speeds.

    Fixed in Patch 1.109.185/1.98
    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues 

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girliesamm
6 years ago

Hi everyone. Don't know if anyone else is still having this issue, but I was finally able to fix it in my game and thought I should share. I took the solution from the other thread which was to go into the GraphicsRules file and change the NumberCascadesLevel for the very high setting from 3 to 1. In game the shadows were moving very smoothly, but the quality of the shadows was very poor. So I used the game options to change back my lighting setting to very high (changing the file switched it to medium in game) and I restarted my game. To my surprise the shadows still moved smoothly at very high quality. I checked the GraphicsRule file and the NumberCascadesLevel was still 1. Hopefully this works for someone else.

  • Alistu's avatar
    Alistu
    New Ace
    6 years ago
    @girliesamm Didn't work for me I'm afriad. Switching the NumberCascadesLevels to 1 did fix the shadow movement but it never switched my lighting quality to Medium in the settings. It stayed at Very High so closing and restarting the game didn't do anything meaning I was left with nice shadows with a really low draw distance.
  • pureedboot's avatar
    pureedboot
    Rising Traveler
    3 years ago
    @girliesamm This solved the issue in my game! Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately without altering the GraphicsRules file the issue remains, so it obviously hasn't been patched.
    • GiardiniDiMarzo's avatar
      GiardiniDiMarzo
      Legend
      3 years ago

      Oh wow, I didn't know it was a bug for nVidia users. I also have it.

      • GiardiniDiMarzo's avatar
        GiardiniDiMarzo
        Legend
        3 years ago

        I did a bit of testing, and you can personalize your graphic settings keeping MEDIUM only for lighting. You need to set all the settings to MEDIUM first, restart the game, and keep only lighting on MEDIUM and then restart again. It's only a workaround, and only the lighting is affected by medium quality, but at least the shadows are not jumping anymore.

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