Shadow Resolution Poor (Only in External View)

Zadma · January 10, 2025, 10:15pm

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Shadow resolution is low and flickering, but this only seems to occur when viewed with the External View. The issue is not present when the same shadows in the same instance of the sim are viewed through the cockpit windows, outside in walkaround mode, or from the drone cameras. Additionally, the player’s aircraft shadow resolution seems to improve when Raytraced Shadows is turned on, but other aircraft along with buildings and vehicles still have low-res/flickering shadows.

This issue exists with or without a populated Community Folder.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Every flight, every aircraft I have tested so far (apologies, I don’t have an exhaustive list, but this seems to be a global issue).

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

Spawn any aircraft in an environment/time of day that would cast shadows
Observe aircraft shadows from External View
Observe the same shadows from any other view (Walkaround, Cockpit, Drone)

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

No

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version:

AMD 24.12.1

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Radeon RX 7900 GRE
64GB DDR5-6000 CL30 RAM

The screenshots below were captured using the Ultra preset with the exception of Raytraced Shadows “Off” unless otherwise noted (with them on the aircraft shadow resolution improved, but other shadows remained poor) and Texture Resolution “Low” (this did not have an impact as testing on “High” or “Ultra” yielded the same results).