• How To Disable Shadows In Skyrim

Nov 25, 2011  How to disable the shadows in Skyrim? - posted in Skyrim Technical Support: If I cannot make them look good, then I'd rather just not have them period. There is a problem I got with flickering shadows every 5 secs, and well as the shadows looking very blocky, no matter the shadow detail setting. Unless there is a solution to solve the flickering and the blocky shadows I'd like to disable them.

How To Disable Shadows In Skyrim

So, if you followed our tips, you should also disable shadows in Skyrim to boost the FPS a little more.IMPORTANT: We are going to change the shadow resolution instead of disabling them, because some have reported that it can actually decrease FPS if you disable shadows1. Step To do that, you would open the Windows Explorer (Windows key + E) and go to the following path:C:Users(yourusername)DocumentsMy GamesSkyrim1.1 Copy the file SkyrimPrefs.ini to SkyrimPrefs.ini.bak2. Step Open the ini file SkyrimPrefs.ini3. Step Look for Display and you will see something like this:iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=1024iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048iBlurDeferredShadowMask=3iShadowMapResolution=2048change the entries toiShadowMapResolutionSecondary=512iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=512iBlurDeferredShadowMask=6iShadowMapResolution=512TIP: You need to play around with the settings. Some settings may work for some and not for others. If you want to completely disable shadows change the resolution to 0 and change the values for fInteriorShadowDistance=0fShadowDistance=0.