Problems with shadows...help!

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Hi. Im developing a dark horror game, when some scenarios are very dark. I have noticed, testing on other more modest pcs, that shadows are a HUGE problem. If you set textures, post processing, etc on high, there is no problem, if you don’t have the shadows activated everything goes really well. But when I activate the shadows, either in profile 1, 2 or 3, the game starts to go really bad, the fps drop a lot. What tricks do you use to optimize the shadows? I’ve thought about things like:

  • Disable all shadows, and put shadows only on large objects.
  • Use static lights whenever possible.
  • The objects that have shadows, limit the distance to the culling.

Even so, I haven’t improved much the shadows performance, and I’m surprised. Any recommendation?

By the way, what is the best way to see what is overloading the GPU?

Thanks.!!

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Turning off shadows ALWAYS has a huge effect. I don’t think it’s your problem.

The main thing you can do it ramp down the engine scalability setting on the lower end machines.

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Thank you. I solved the problem doing:

  • Baking static lights.
  • Deleting the shadows of most little objects.
  • Setting the ExponentialHeightFog 1500 draw distance.
  • Deleting some particles…

And now is workig much better!

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