Shadows not displaying in DOW but does in DC Demo

[juiceman1_2000]

Ironically it took the DC demo to show me. I turn the shadow effects all the way up in DOW and I still don't get building shadows, only unit shadows. I thought it was normal and the game just adjusted performance since I have a below spec machine, but the DC demo displayed building shadows no prob and it ran OK.

So is there anyway to force building shadows? Is there something I should know.

The hardware that I have doesn't matter in this case, since there's no change except the Demo does shadows and WA and DOW doesnt.
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Below is the output of the GraphicsLog files for each game.

GraphicsConfig.log for WA


17:52:12.77 GRAPHICSCONFIG started at 2006-09-02 17:52
17:52:12.77 OS NT 5.1, 512MB Physical Memory
17:52:12.77 RUN-OPTIONS
17:52:12.77 WORKING-DIR Z:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War
17:52:12.77 USER Administrator
17:52:12.77
17:52:12.77 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=INTEL Pentium-III:f=6,m=8, Mode=SSE
17:52:12.86 Graphics Configuration Utility
17:52:29.95 treetransform.c/543:!SHAD -- Parsing [shader.txt] compiler script.
17:52:29.96 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
17:52:30.27 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = nv4_disp.dll Device = \\.\DISPLAY1 Desc = NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
17:52:30.27 SPDx9 -- Driver Vendor = 0x10DE Device = 0x0181 SubSys = 0x00000000 Rev = 0x00A4
17:52:30.27 SPDx9 -- Driver Version Product = 0x0006 Version = 0x000E SubVersion = 0x000A Build = 0x2112 (8466)
17:52:30.27 SPDx9 -- Driver GUID = {D7B71E3E-42C1-11CF-A242-0A2005C2CB35}
17:52:31.02 SPOOGE -- 177.00MB available texture memory
17:52:31.02 treetransform.c/543:!SHAD -- Parsing [nvidia.txt'] compiler script.
17:52:31.02 treetransform.c/551:!Unable to parse translation file.
17:52:31.02 SPOOGE -- 177.00MB available texture memory
17:52:44.76 FPS -- Start: 21.982, End: 31.996, Duration: 10.014, Frames: 142, FPS: 14.180 TotalDuration: 10.014
17:52:44.80 SPOOGE -- 177.00MB available texture memory
17:52:44.80 SPOOGE -- 177.00MB available texture memory
17:52:50.95
Application closed without errors

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GraphicsConfig.log for DC Demo

17:01:49.03 GRAPHICSCONFIG started at 2006-09-01 17:01
17:01:49.03 OS NT 5.1, 512MB Physical Memory
17:01:49.03 RUN-OPTIONS -rungamedc
17:01:49.03 WORKING-DIR Z:\PROGRA~1\DAWNOF~1
17:01:49.03 USER Administrator
17:01:49.03
17:01:49.03 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=INTEL Pentium-III:f=6,m=8, Mode=SSE
17:01:49.11 Graphics Configuration Utility
17:02:02.97 treetransform.c/543:!SHAD -- Parsing [shader.txt] compiler script.
17:02:03.00 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
17:02:09.71 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = nv4_disp.dll Device = \\.\DISPLAY1 Desc = NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
17:02:09.71 SPDx9 -- Driver Vendor = 0x10DE Device = 0x0181 SubSys = 0x00000000 Rev = 0x00A4
17:02:09.71 SPDx9 -- Driver Version Product = 0x0006 Version = 0x000E SubVersion = 0x000A Build = 0x2112 (8466)
17:02:09.71 SPDx9 -- Driver GUID = {D7B71E3E-42C1-11CF-A242-0A2005C2CB35}
17:02:10.98 SPOOGE -- 174.00MB available texture memory
17:02:11.00 treetransform.c/543:!SHAD -- Parsing [nvidia.txt'] compiler script.
17:02:11.00 treetransform.c/551:!Unable to parse translation file.
17:02:11.00 SPOOGE -- 174.00MB available texture memory
17:02:25.91 FPS -- Start: 26.879, End: 36.893, Duration: 10.014, Frames: 260, FPS: 25.964 TotalDuration: 10.014
17:02:25.96 SPOOGE -- 174.00MB available texture memory
17:02:25.96 SPOOGE -- 174.00MB available texture memory
17:02:36.07
Application closed without errors
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From the above, the Demo got better frames for the test, could that be why it applied shadows and WA didn't?

[Stormsong]

I can only guess that it's somehow related to your graphics card. Full shadow detail has always worked for me, bugs and all...(originally with a 6600 GT and now a 7800 GS).

[juiceman1_2000]

Thanks for posting, but I hope I get a better response than yours, since you're not sure how to help me, and you've only succeeded in making me jealous. :soul:Gimme that damn video card. :naughty:

[Stormsong]

Heh, a 6600 GT isn't that expensive nowadays. In any case, I recommend setting shadows to medium aynway, since full shadow detail doesn't work too well, regardless of the graphics card(this (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=105290) is what I'm talking about).

[juiceman1_2000]

thanks for the heads up, I did notice it at times in the DC demo too, but it was so quick I couldnt really figure out what it was.

[lead341]

I play currently Dark Crusade and I don´t have shadows on buildings etc. either...even on high settings. I don´t know why it is like that...


My system:

Athlon 64 4000+
2 GB Ram
Geforce 7900 GT 512
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe