Shadows inexistant in exterior views

Hello all !
For some reasons, I don’t have any shadows in exterior view whether it’s from the plane itself, or the scenery/buildings.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
Cast shadows are inexistant on exterior view, from the plane on the ground, or the airport buildings.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

Yes.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Happening on external view, raytraced shadows off.
Shadows appearing back on drone mode.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. Load into the sim
  2. Select daytime
  3. Load on any runways

YOUR SETTINGS

Raytraced shadow seems to fix this issue, but at the cost of some performance.
Shadow maps, contact shadows and terrain shadows settings have no impact on fixing this bug.

[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[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card.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:

Nvidia driver 566.14

MEDIA

Drone mode


Classic exterior view

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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• Same issue for me and this seems to only happen with streamed airplanes like the inibuilds A330, or Asobo 787. This does not occur with downloaded airplanes like the Fenix A320.

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While I do have shadows in the exterior view, I find that they disappear during wet weather. Here is the 172 stopped on the runway with its engine off. My usual settings are high but saw no improvement going to Ultra. Looks like we are in a very old version of a flight simulator. Clearly a bug, and is a real immersion killer.