Crazy Dynamic Shadows

[drjayyy]

When running ORTS with Dynamic Shadows .The shadows go everywhere,they do go along with the train.But when the train stops other shadows will keep moving over the landscape as if something something large is flying through the sky.The only route the shadows seem to work properly is Paul Fowlers GM&O Springfield Switch. Also on MLTs routes alot of the scenery does not appear.

Intel QX9650 Quad Core 3.0ghz
4g DDR2 PC6400
EVGA NVIDIA 9600 GT 1GB
Hitachi 1TB HDD

[muskokaandtahoe]

Can you share a screenshot please? It'll help us understand what might be going on. Thx!

[twpol]

As Dave says, a screenshot would be great; I have seen a couple of people have really bizare shadows which were corrected either completely or mostly by updating to the latest graphics drivers. Worth trying, if you're not already on the latest version.

[conrail1]

When running ORTS with Dynamic Shadows .The shadows go everywhere,they do go along with the train.But when the train stops other shadows will keep moving over the landscape as if something something large is flying through the sky.

The dynamic shadows do seem to need work, but it seems like this is just an early implementation of them anyway.

I've seen what I can only describe as a “creeping” effect with the dynamic shadows even when a model is stationary, that was with a GTX 480 video card and the latest drivers. A screen shot is obviously not going to show this movement.

Some of the other dynamic shadow anomalies have been a lot worse as this screen shot shows, which was taken with a Nvidia 7950 GTX based laptop -






There was a discussion going on about the dynamic shadows in OpenRails but it looks like it went cold -


http://www.elvastower.com/forums/ind...ntation-error/

[drjayyy]

Thanks Jim I updated the vidcard drivers .Problem Solved!!! Still on MLTs routes alot of scenery is still missing. I came across Directx10 that says its XP compatible.( With some "tweaking" required. Do you or anybody out there in "ORTSyllvania" know anything about this? Is it safe or not?

[conrail1]

I came across Directx10 that says its XP compatible.

Not that I have much faith in any claims that DirectX 10 will work with Windows XP, what good is DirectX 10 going to do for a DirectX 9 application like OpenRails?