GTA V Shadow Fix

This fixes the problem of shadows disappearing about 7 feet from your character, I found it very annoying, especially around chain link fences, they would just completely disappear just feet away, these shadows remain at a long distance, the links may slim out as you get further, but they remain, and more importantly it fixes ground shadows just appearing and disappearing depending on your distance.

Only the next two values need to be changed, you need to open your settings.xml file in My Documents/Rockstar Games/GTA V/settings.xml

Find these two values

Code:

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    <Shadow_SplitZStart value="X.XXXXXX" />
    <Shadow_SplitZEnd value="X.XXXXXX" />

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and change them to this

Code:

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    <Shadow_SplitZStart value="1.000000" />
    <Shadow_SplitZEnd value="0.999900" />

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To make Shadows even better you can make sure you have these enabled, or in the case of ShadowDistance put it up to 1.9 without problems, although it will use more resources.

Code:

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<Shadow_Distance value="1.900000" />
<Shadow_LongShadows value="true" />
<Shadow_SoftShadows value="5" />
<UltraShadows_Enabled value="true" />
<Shadow_ParticleShadows value="true" />

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Code:

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<Shadow_SoftShadows value="4" />

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for AMD soft shadows, 123 for low medium high

Uploading comparison videos to youtube now, I have a very slow connection and they were recorded at 1080 60 fps so they aren't small.

GTA V Shadow Fix