VirazolKaine Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 Having shadow quality set to high causes some flickering on the character models, I think was added with the lastest patch. Video of the issue: (5) Star Wars The Old Republic - Minor Bug With Shadow Quality - YouTube 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonologie Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 It was a known issue on the PTS, but it wasn't solved apparently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCallisto Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Yep, this bug is ruining cutscenes right now. This should be a priority. Please patch this ASAP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sveine Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Pretty sure I saw this before the most recent patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCallisto Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, Sveine said: Pretty sure I saw this before the most recent patch. I am currently playing a character and recording all the cutscenes (even side quests), and this specific bug most definitely appeared with today's patch. I just looked at my recordings yesterday pre-patch to compare. So this definitely happened with the patch. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazulfi Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 I have this problem as well, and definitely didn't have it before - I film my game play too and this wasn't happening prior to 7.4, and I'm now so sensitive to the Voss grass thing, I'm very much on high alert for unusual sparkles/jaggies/distortion. It's not just on characters, it affects surfaces too. Will also take vid and post when game is back up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCallisto Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Today's patch did not fix this. They shouldn't even push new updates if it breaks what previously worked just fine. If they do not fix this before their Christmas break, I will just unsubscribe until this is fixed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonologie Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 I agree. It's very annoying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighWarlockBane Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 I also noticed this issue after the latest patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clericz Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 Also having this issue from the latest patch, makes the cutscenes / conversation incredibly annoying with the little flickering shadows across faces. Turning shadow quality to LOW seems to be the only "fix" available at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clericz Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 Here's a video I took that also shows the flickering shadow issue during conversations / cutscenes. https://youtu.be/wFkgxqxW-KY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clericz Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 Ok so I somehow managed to FIX the problem, not sure exactly what it was that I did however I was messing around with the game resolution settings and swapped from 2560x1440 to 1920x1080, then back to 2560x1440. Also I swapped between windowed fullscreen and regular fullscreen which left me with a BLACK unresponsive screen, I had to force close the application. When I reloaded the game it was on windowed fullscreen (which I wanted) and 2560x1440 resolution (which I wanted) and miraculously the low-rez flickering shadow issue on faces during conversation is GONE and shadows appear to be working properly now. It's still present to an extremely minimal degree but nowhere near as bad as the video I posted earlier. This is probably the way the devs intended it now. Just to confirm, I still have all settings on ultra/high (or whatever the highest setting is for that option), including enhanced shadows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euroDSMtuner Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 8 minutes ago, clericz said: Ok so I somehow managed to FIX the problem, not sure exactly what it was that I did however I was messing around with the game resolution settings and swapped from 2560x1440 to 1920x1080, then back to 2560x1440. Also I swapped between windowed fullscreen and regular fullscreen which left me with a BLACK unresponsive screen, I had to force close the application. When I reloaded the game it was on windowed fullscreen (which I wanted) and 2560x1440 resolution (which I wanted) and miraculously the low-rez flickering shadow issue on faces during conversation is GONE and shadows appear to be working properly now. It's still present to an extremely minimal degree but nowhere near as bad as the video I posted earlier. This is probably the way the devs intended it now. Just to confirm, I still have all settings on ultra/high (or whatever the highest setting is for that option), including enhanced shadows. Tried this and I still have the flickering issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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