Weird Shadows on Characters when Using Path Tracing or Ray Tracing

[Call_Me_Eli]

I'm getting really weird shadows on characters with path tracing or ray tracing enabled. It almost looks like the shadow mesh (?) isn't correctly synched with the character? What ever it is, it is inconsistent but repeatable. Like, it doesn't occur all the time, but when it does occur, I can replicate it. I'm still messing with settings to see if I can identify a culprit, but has anyone else run into this?

Here is a video of the bug (?)

 

[CelestialDew42]

I'm getting this too and it's killing me trying to figure out what causes it/triggers it. Are you using any visual mods??
The only way I can get it to go away is with a clean reinstall of the game. Mods work with it until some random point and then once shadows stop working the intended way they stop forever until I do a clean reinstall again. Last time I had mods and was working well for a few weeks, then out of nowhere (no new mods installed), the shadows started to glitch out on me (black patches with PT on NPC's and vegetation, extreme ghosting, stuff like that.
Still can't find a solution or the cause.

 

[VKeele]

I'm getting this too and it's killing me trying to figure out what causes it/triggers it. Are you using any visual mods??
The only way I can get it to go away is with a clean reinstall of the game. Mods work with it until some random point and then once shadows stop working the intended way they stop forever until I do a clean reinstall again. Last time I had mods and was working well for a few weeks, then out of nowhere (no new mods installed), the shadows started to glitch out on me (black patches with PT on NPC's and vegetation, extreme ghosting, stuff like that.
Still can't find a solution or the cause.

Does it look like this? I have a shadow issue only on V when using vehicles.

 

[TavenJosephwice]

Yeah sometimes it's weird but I just ignore it

 

[ShadowStalker]

Its a common problem, first playthrough i had 0 issue's (or i simply did not notice them) and the second one i got the "famous" black tree's and weird shadows on my V when equipping certain cloths and boots. Also common to see shadows of the buildings flickering etc. Did multiple clean installs, removed my drivers with DDU etc. but nothing would fix the issue.

I use Path tracing but only way i could make it go away for the most part is switch back to ray tracing and then turn off ray traced lightning.

At the moment i use certain mods so i can play with path tracing on like wind begone, and general shadow fix but the game overall seems very buggy at the moment and that is mainly due to the most recent patch (2.31).

No clue if it will get better but time will tell.

 

[TavenJosephwice]

It's just some programming issues you know how it is sometimes the programming engine is old you know

 

[devivre]

All you can do is report the issue to cdpr support:

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It might also be gpu driver version related (the newest gpu driver isn’t necessarily always going to run best)
And some mods will also impact the performance, so in order to report the issue to support a clean install is probably necessary.

 

[Malautomedontolo]

It's a known problem... The most annoying one is the one on the vegetation, which also has static shadows since PT has been introduced.
The mod from sosuine "General shadow fixes" fixes some of these issues, unfortunately not all of them.

 

[TavenJosephwice]

It's a known problem... The most annoying one is the one on the vegetation, which also has static shadows since PT has been introduced.
The mod from sosuine "General shadow fixes" fixes some of these issues, unfortunately not all of them.

I hope they can put Croatian club on it it's like a mod thing but if you use it the achievements will deactivated from people using creative club modes on fallout 4 and Skyrim they have it the creative club if the game owner do it I might come back quickly when I get the digital game and go in the creative club to use mods don't worry I completed the game already