Skyrim Turn Off Shadows
How to disable shadows in Skyrim to boost FPS 1. Step To do that, you would open the Windows Explorer (Windows key + E) and go to the following path: 2. Step Open the ini file SkyrimPrefs.ini. Step Look for Display and you will see something like this.
This is a lighting mod which focused on casting shadows.Window silhouettes and tree shadows will be casted on the floor at some interiors.Taverns and inns will have more unique ambience by adding some objects.This mod affects almost all room interiors and some dungeons. But mostdungeons are left to vanilla. So some dark dungeons mods will work finewith this.Also includes the following bug fixes and a separated weather tweak mod.FixesFixed the noticable circle shape of the illuminated portions which breaks immersion(like someone is shooting with a spot light).Flickering Object Fix (Floor rugs/pelts, Fallen leaves etc.)Object Placement Fix (Fires seeable through the roof, objects sunken into wall, etc.) See also the image section.Performance Fix (It depends on the cells. By disabling otiose light sources. )Light Popping Fix (By disabling or merging otiose light sources.
)Shadow Striping FixWeather TweaksA small plugin to tweak vanilla weathers. If you have favorite weather mod(s) installed, just exclude this, or load this before them toprioritize them.Darkened sky at foggy, rainy and snowy night.Tweaked Fog to avoid noticeable fog border.Dense rain and snow particles.Cloud opacity and color.Directional lighting color. Skyrim Mods Overview byTranslationsRussian Version byAlso available here. ByCzech Version byItalian Vesion byFrench Version byInstallationPlease install via a mod manager or merge into the data folder manually.Load order should be after mods that have cell edits (includes object or actor placing). 1.3Edited cellsRiftenWorld (Added beam effects to the windows.
Added window meshes to Temple of Mara.)FalkreathJarlsLonghouse (Removed a stuffed deer.)FalkreathDeadmansDrink (Slightly lightened the interior.)WhiterunBanneredmare (Removed a stuffed deer. Slightly lightened the interior.)RiverwoodSleepingGiantInn (Added shadows of window frames.
I have 3.4 ghz quad core with tri-sli 260 gtx's, 8gb of very high speed ram, 16gb for readyboost (useful for doing stuff on my other monitor) and skyrim installed on an SSD. Skyrim stuttered and lagged like crazy and took forever to load.I eventually got tired of the poor performance and even worse shadows. So I googled turn shadows off skyrim and found a way to turn them off completely. My FPS instantly jumped from 30ish to 60ish. I was so upset.
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Bethesda royally messed up the shadows in this game. They look like garbage and take up all of the already restricted resources that the engine utilizes.The game engine is simply not optimized for PC. It seems to use only a fraction of my computer's available resources. It's basically a console game made available for PC users with none of the advantages of being on a PC. The screw up on the shadows combined with the screw up on the lack of resource usage just combined together to make Skyrim perform very poorly on PC.Flame-retardant appeal: I know, I know, making games is hard and all that.
This is not intended as a flame or a troll post, just a hopefully helpful tip for PC-users with the same problem. Google turn off shadows, for +30 fps. (Since posting links to editing game files is frowned upon I won't post the link. It's an ini file, nothing major, just back it up.)Posts: 3521 Joined: Tue May 08, 2007 1:44 am. There is something really weird going on with this game and my card. If I set the card too high (even with my fan set to 100%, so there's no chance of the card overheating), then -a- my Tab/No/Escape key stops working at some point, and about 5 minutes thereafter -b- the game crashes, taking my computer with it. If I set the card just a bit lower, with the fan at 50% (this means the card does heat up some, but not much), neither of these things happen.I don't have this problem with other games.I think I'll look into disabling shadows.
You're right: they are censored anyway.Posts: 3306 Joined: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:56 am. Disabling shadows would be a too big immersion breaker in my opinion.My game doesn't stutter much. Have you installed the 4GB fix?I play otherwise on Ultra 1080p graphics, but have done these changes:- AA from 8 to 4- AF from 16 to 8- Long distance LOD detail from Ultra to High- Outside shadow draw distance from 8000 to 2500 (Same as inside.
Makes shadows look less blocky too)FPS increased from around 40 to 60. My specs are in my sig. I have HD texture mods installed, extra land and tree shadows etc.Posts: 3513 Joined: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:50 amDisplay posts from previous: Sort.