@Mibrandt @Mozzie @xzess @Amarildo Junior @Dmitri Just @ing the posters from the other 'shadow' thread who may have missed the news. Here is a temporary shadow fix: Enter your motherboard BIOS settings at startup and disable two of your CPU's cores.
I cannot disable cores because I use them for compiling packages, 3D rendering, and stuff. But good thing that the problem has a root cause. I just hope S397 solves this quickly. rF2 is the only sim where there is no "start and play", there's always something to fix, folders to delete, settings to make. Hopefully they'll just iron out these bugs, the shadows bugs being one of them
If you have more than 4 cores, you can try the following to run rfactor 2 with 4 cores only. Go into the folder ...\Steam\steamapps\common\rFactor 2\Launcher and copy the 'Launch rFactor.exe' to the desktop. Rename it to 'Launch_rFactor.exe' and move it back into the folder where it comes from. Now create a new File in this folder and give it a name as you like, but with the file extension '.bat'. Rightclick on this new file and select 'edit'. Put this into the file: start /affinity F Launch_rFactor.exe (Copy it from here, to get the correct format with spaces.) Save the file and start rfactor with a doubleclick on this new file. rFactor should run with 4 cores now.
A member (which I'm not gonna name) just sent me a private message saying the shadows are fixed on the next update, and that he's testing a Beta build of rF2. Hopefully this is true!
HOW TO GET SHADOWS WORKING AGAIN WHILE AN UPDATE IS NOT ISSUED: This worked for me. If you want to simly launch the game through Steam (and not a shortcut), do this: Right-click on the game title under the Library in Steam and select Properties. Under the General tab click the "Set launch options" button Now add this command: Code: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity F "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\rFactor 2\Launcher\Launch rFactor.exe" %command% You can also use 3E as affinity and it may work too. I'll do some research on what each affinity does. For now, "F" seems to work just fine. Change your installation directory accordingly. It may be the case that you now have no shadows at the track surface. If that's the case, simply change your shadow settings. This might force rFactor 2 to recompile it's shaders with the new settings. If changing the shadow settings didn't work, try deleting your cbash and shaders folders. Voilá!
I had a 6 core too. I can confirm the affinity trick does the job. Even I think I have better and more shadows than before. I knew it was CPU detection problem, I tested some solutions in this at the day, but didn't worked. But really nice discover @stonec thanks to you. Hope the staff fix it in some oncoming update. Thanks to @Amarildo Junior too for the command. Now i play with half of the cores XD
