[Lighting and Shadows = Kills Performance?]

I long had hardware skinning enabled also.  Basically I have SL set a ultra.  I did customize setting though to half the draw distance and particles plus turned off avatar cloth setting.  Still no shadows.  No idea why and starting to think LL just wants me to have no shadows. :matte-motes-frown:

[Lighting and Shadows = Kills Performance?]

I've had anti-aliasing on for a long time now... set to 4x, anistropic filtering and Open GL VBO has been on too.  No crashing yet.. just laggier than normal.  But shadows aren't working at all.  Why I don't know. :matte-motes-not-entertained:

 

Edit: yikes... I'm getting 12 FPS... normally is 50-60 fps

[Lighting and Shadows = Kills Performance?]

Shadows don't work at all for me.

 

I have an ATI Radeon HD 5570 (1gb) and 8 gigs ram, AMD phenom II 955 quad core.  According to ATI specs it supports Open GL 3.2, 3.3 and 4.0.  SL wiki's Lighting and Shadows says needs at least 3.0.  So I'm lost on why SL shadows still won't work for me. :matte-motes-frown:

 

Help please someone.