Is it possible to get shadows with ATI (Radeon) graphis card?

[Sally Audebarn]

I have an Radeon HD 4650 graphics card and my shadow options are all greyed out and I have been browseing the forums and came up on similar problems that people were having with their  ADI graphics cards. Any advice?

[Ren Toxx]

In the Preferences > Graphics > Hardware section, turn off antialiasing, then try enabling shadows again... and since they eat up a lot of resources, you might want to try with an overall lower graphics quality setting, too, and even a less than full screen resolution setting. See if that makes shadows work, and if so, then start slowly trying higher quality settings until your viewer starts choking again.

[Erwin Solo]

I have the ATI Radeon 5770, and it does shadows just fine.  Does slow things down a bit.  So, I turn it off for exploring.

To test, just set your graphics selection to Ultra.

[Nyll Bergbahn]

Erwin, Shadows works fine with my 5850 too but anti-aliasing is disabled onscreen soon as Lighting and Shadows is enabled, you can see the jaggies immediately on straight edges. Also, Shadows cause some issues with alpha Textures ( see my ankle boots in my first pic in this thread http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Viewer/Shadows-What-Graphics-Cards-OS-versions-Viewers-support-this/m-p/1012201#M5815 ). Do you see the same issues?