I can confirm in my game this problem is fixed! Thank you, thank you so much to the team for getting this taken care of before the pack release. I'm so happy to have my trees looking like they should again!
@manzana0807 That was me over on the official forums. Nobody else responded with the same issue there, which was disconcerting to say the least.
I agree that it's very odd to have a bug like this be GPU brand specific. I've seen certain issues over the years with NVIDIA/AMD that had to be hotfixed, but nothing like a game choosing the wrong shadows.
@alanmichael1 That's how my screenshots looked before the Seasons patch.
I wondered if that was you, because I know forum usernames are sometimes different. I don't take a lot of screenshots in my game, so I don't have any pre-patch photos that have tree shadows in them. But that's what mine looked like too.
I just can't remember if mine got messed up with the Seasons patch or the ones after in July. I haven't played very much at all since Seasons released (I've been playing a lot of Skyrim and Fallout 4 instead), so I just can't pinpoint for sure.
I have noticed that it's not all trees, because the tree with lanterns from Movie Hangout does have the correct shadows. And I think I saw some pine trees in Forgotten Hollow that looked okay. This is indeed very strange. And you are running newer drivers than I am, so it's not something driver specific.
@manzana0807 I don't have either Movie Hangout or Vampires, whose trees you mentioned were the only ones with correct shadows. That makes sense because I haven't observed any working correctly.
