August 2016
is there any update on this? its quite infuriating when i tried to enjoy the very best of this game's graphic.. T_T!
September 2016
Having this same issue. Also using an Nvidia graphic card.
September 2016
UPDATE: I changed my graphic card to AMD R7 370 2gb and I'm still having this issue.
September 2016
Thanks for your feedback guys
Good Luck
Crin
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Important Threads
January 2017
Just wanted to report that I just reinstalled the game and the shadows still jump. About every 6 seconds. Shadows did not behave this way until the December 2015 patch.
Hopefully this can be addressed, as a person where blinking/flashing is really bothersome, I can't really play this game at the moment.
February 2017
Any fix? 32+medium lighting seems to fix the problem still I wanna play on very high
February 2017
Still an open issue and haven't heard of any work around
Good Luck
Crin
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Please only contact me via PM when asked to do so.
Important Threads
February 2017
The only "work around" is to set lighting to Medium or lower. The shadows move perfectly smoothly on the lower settings but it also means you have to put up with things such as a shorter draw distance on shadows.
March 2017
I'm sad to say that the shadows are still broken as of the March 23d 2017 patch. Hope they resolve this one soon as I have a very hard time concentrating when there are things jumping around in the corner of my eye. I refuse to set my settings to medium as that would just be an insult to my computer and in my opinion, no one who has a computer good enough to run the game on max graphics should be forced to set their settings to medium only to workaround a bug that the developers have had over a year to fix now.
Happy Simmin!
March 2017
This problem has always driven me insane. The worst part is that I didn't remember it being good before, and watching a let's play from september 2014 I noticed how smooth the shadows looked. I'm definitely more annoyed and can't unsee now that I know it's a bug. It's been years!