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Rage of Mages seriesNo Shadows in Evil Islands(8 posts)solved(8 posts)solved
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Posted June 15, 2016
Hi,
i have no Character, Trees or Objective Shadows in Evil Islands. In the CD Version are all Shadows available. Is this a GOG version bug?
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Posted June 27, 2016
Got the same issue, it really bugs me. The shadows were the most awesome graphical feature of the game at its time. The world looks flat without them :(

Running it on Dell XPS13, Iris Pro 540. Any help is much appreciated.
Posted June 27, 2016
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evok3r: Got the same issue, it really bugs me. The shadows were the most awesome graphical feature of the game at its time. The world looks flat without them :(

Running it on Dell XPS13, Iris Pro 540. Any help is much appreciated.
Iris Pro is probably one of the worst d3d/OpenGL accelerators it is possible to buy today. Intel gpus are fine for 2d stuff like web browsing, email, spreadsheets, image programs, etc--but for d3d-OpenGL 3d games they leave much to be desired! Not recommended for 3d games. (I don't know why people assume these gpus are fit for 3d gaming.)

I have an AMD R9 380 4GB card (DX12_0 compliant) and the shadows all render fine--just fired it up to make sure. AMD has the best d3d backwards-compatibility of any current GPU, imo, but any nVidia or AMD gpu will be much better than Intel's. The problem with the Intel gpus is that they rely on software rendering for many d3d features that are meant to be accelerated and don't render well if at all in software mode. D3d/OpenGL driver support from Intel leaves much to be desired, as well.
Post edited June 27, 2016 by waltc
Posted June 28, 2016
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evok3r: Got the same issue, it really bugs me. The shadows were the most awesome graphical feature of the game at its time. The world looks flat without them :(

Running it on Dell XPS13, Iris Pro 540. Any help is much appreciated.
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waltc: Iris Pro is probably one of the worst d3d/OpenGL accelerators it is possible to buy today. Intel gpus are fine for 2d stuff like web browsing, email, spreadsheets, image programs, etc--but for d3d-OpenGL 3d games they leave much to be desired! Not recommended for 3d games. (I don't know why people assume these gpus are fit for 3d gaming.)

I have an AMD R9 380 4GB card (DX12_0 compliant) and the shadows all render fine--just fired it up to make sure. AMD has the best d3d backwards-compatibility of any current GPU, imo, but any nVidia or AMD gpu will be much better than Intel's. The problem with the Intel gpus is that they rely on software rendering for many d3d features that are meant to be accelerated and don't render well if at all in software mode. D3d/OpenGL driver support from Intel leaves much to be desired, as well.
I play the game with a Nvidia GeForce GTX750TI on Win10 and i update all drivers, but i have no shadows in the game :( you play it on a AMD card with shadows. i think that Nvidia cards have this problem.
Post edited June 28, 2016 by Marty1
Posted July 03, 2016
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I have found the, or at least a solution while digging through the registry entries for the game, apparently the shadows are disabled by default no matter what you set in game, so you just have to set all the shadows related exadecimal values to 1, some of them are set to 0.
The settings I'm talking about are located here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Nival Interactive\EvilIslands\Shadow Settings

Hope this helps you all.
Posted July 10, 2016
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Vokter: I have found the, or at least a solution while digging through the registry entries for the game, apparently the shadows are disabled by default no matter what you set in game, so you just have to set all the shadows related exadecimal values to 1, some of them are set to 0.
The settings I'm talking about are located here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Nival Interactive\EvilIslands\Shadow Settings

Hope this helps you all.
This is excellent. I didnt even notice the game didnt have shadows before this post. With your advice i was able to get them back on. Thank you very much.
Posted July 11, 2016
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Vokter: I have found the, or at least a solution while digging through the registry entries for the game, apparently the shadows are disabled by default no matter what you set in game, so you just have to set all the shadows related exadecimal values to 1, some of them are set to 0.
The settings I'm talking about are located here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Nival Interactive\EvilIslands\Shadow Settings

Hope this helps you all.
the solution is great, thank you :) Now with shadows the game has a better atmosphere ;)
Post edited July 11, 2016 by Marty1
Posted November 27, 2017
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Vokter: I have found the, or at least a solution while digging through the registry entries for the game, apparently the shadows are disabled by default no matter what you set in game, so you just have to set all the shadows related exadecimal values to 1, some of them are set to 0.
The settings I'm talking about are located here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Nival Interactive\EvilIslands\Shadow Settings

Hope this helps you all.
I set all shadow options to 1 and still not getting any shadows in the game (win10+gtx970) =(
upd - now it worked, don't know what i did lol
Post edited November 27, 2017 by KainXVIII
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