No shadows with my AMD Radeon Graphics Card

[Calaval]

With the SL viewer and Firestorm viewer whenever I enable lighting and shadows, I don’t ever see shadows, and in some cases the lighting seems flickery. I’d love to play SL on Ultra as my pc handles SL fine but the lack of shadows is a major annoyance.

I suspect it might be the driver but the AMD Catalyst AutoDetect utility tells me my driver is up to date.

I’ve read some previous posts on this matter but haven’t yet found a solution, my specs are:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40GHz (12 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
OS Version: Windows 8.1 64-bit (6.3, Build 9600)
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 8990
Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0010.1333

 

Has anyone found a solution to this, other than getting a nvidia?

[Whirly Fizzle]

I suspect you are seeing BUG-7627 - [AMD 14.9 Catalyst] Projected Shadows not displaying properly

As far as I'm aware this affects all AMD driver versions 14.9 and later. You appear to be using 14.12 (or one of the later beta versions).

The Catalyst 14.4 driver didn't have this bug so you can try rolling back to that: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous/detail?os=Windows%208.1%20-%2064&rev=14.4

[Calaval]

Thanks Whirly, that seemed to of worked, although I still seem to get glitches with advanced lighting turned on, take a look at the neon light on the black box, first picture is with advanced lighting on and second picture is with advanced lighting off.

 

[Whirly Fizzle]

Do you mean the gaps in the neon light strip when ALM is enabled on the top image?

Can you give me a SLURL to that box?

[Calaval]

That box is at my home but you can view it inworld at the store.

 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/NLAB%20Inc/113/128/27

 

Its upstairs

 

 

[Whirly Fizzle]

I see the same & I have an Nvidia card.

I see the same results on Firestorm & the LL viewer.

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 64-bit (Build 7601)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 750/PCIe/SSE2

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 9.18.0013.5286
OpenGL Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 352.86

 

ALM enabled

 

ALM disabled

 

The strip only breaks up when my camera is moved further away though, it displays okay when ALM is enabled and camera is close. Disabling automatic alpha masking doesn't help.

[Calaval]

Yeah I guess its cause the strip is small, I'm a movie maker so I would be moving the camera about, I guess I just won't use that box. LOL

 

Thanks so much for your help!