We need a real "no shadow" option

[Steph]

I won't speak of gameplay yet since I didn't get to the point of actually playing the game yet.

I was "blocked" by a serious graphical issue.

I have an old GPU (GeForce 260).

When I started the game, I went immediately to Custom battle, and tried a small one to test my graphics settings. I was relatively pleased to be able to put a lot of things at relatively high settings, and get a relatively decent result.




But then I turn around the units, and literally saw the Dark Side of the moon.



I tried to set the Shadow to "Low", but the units are still very dark when not directly lit by the Sun.



I played a bit with the settings. I managed to get rid of the Black shadow issue by setting Directx11 to false and using Shader Model 3. However, compare to the first screen: the quality of the units is a lot worse, look at the blend texture of the shields!




So I think we should petition CA: if they can't make the shadow work properly for old GPU, could they at least add a real "no shadow" option that would completly remove?

I don't want to buy a GPU twice the price of the game to get units I could see from both sides! And I'm not even sure the black shadow issue doesn't exist for more recent GPU.

[TheRomanRuler]

4th option: Fix graphical bug that causes this! So you did not know it, but there is graphical bug that makes textures looks like (like in your pictures) and messes up shadows.