Anyone know how to fix the flickering shadows / lighting at night?
Doesn’t happen in the day time, doesn’t happen at night with a torch out. Just at night with no torch out. I also haven’t fully tested but it doesn’t seem to happen after 4am.
I’m using a custom user.cfg.
have you tried removing the custom cfg and putting the original back and see what happens? Providing you were smart enough to save it somewhere just in case?
I use a CFG file but it is for the bow dot reticle and doesn’t bother anything.
Yes, It still does it when I remove the config and set the settings all to low medium or high. Also only seems to happen in forested areas at night, not in towns or unforested roads.
I’ve been experiencing this from day one on Ps4 and a friend of mine who plays on PC has this problem as well, no mods installed. Engine limitation? I don’t know but I’m pretty sure it will never be fixed.
is your GPU driver updated?
Yes.
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Any ideas?
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Anyone else having this issue? Would like more sample data.
TheBigCheezy, did you ever fix/resolve. I bought KCD on release, and put 100+ hours into it, without any issues, running on I think HIGH for everything. I then had surgery on my arm this past summer, right around the time of your thread. Needless to say, my game worked fine for 100+ hours, but sometime after June 2018, until now, I booted up my game (auto-updated + all DLCs + latest nvidia driver) now… my game flickers at night, and sometimes fireplaces… it’s strange. I have not changed any hardware, and the only thing that has changed is drivers + game updates. I’ve set shadows/lighting to Medium, with no results for fixing. I’ll try low next, but this is ridiculous, I shouldn’t need to.
Same issue on 1.7.2 Driver updating is not working for me.
Nope, I tried everything, believe it’s an engine issue. Not sure why some people aren’t getting the flickering though.
I just don’t play at those times of night that it happens 
I don’t really like playing at night anyway so it’s not so bad.
delete my post
Everybody should have that in their game it happens at certain time of night.
If you made a driver update before the bug and after the bug, switch to a version before the driver you installed before the bug. I got many other games in the last months who got newer problems when i updated my NVIDIA driver. For example, To play the Gothic 2 Mod L’Hiver with a DirectX 11 api i’ll have to install the driver which was released with Assassins Creed Origins. Every other driver after that version will give me water texture bug on all walls in the game. Or in the case of Mafia with a replaced game file (no matter what was replaced, model, sound, TeXT …), I get random freezing of the game if i dont previously installed a driver from the year 2011. GFX Card here is a GTX 760 2GB
Short, Nvidia is a pain for excessive gaming and games which are some years old. And i dont talking here of Retro, like Day of the Tentacle
It’s not possible. I began to play KC:D from the start with very old driver version (2017) and got this glitch from the start. I updated the driver several weeks later and it didn’t help. After that I updated my driver in Nov’18 and Dec’18 - same. You propose me to roll back to the VERY old version like first half of 2017?
My e_ShadowsMaxTexRes is set to 1024
kk, if you started with a very old one it is not necessary.
Well, I did resolve it after combining many different suggestions, ultimately it does boil down to just customizing the game with a user.cfg file, all I have in mine is this:
r_antialiasingmode = 3
r_sharpening = 0.8
e_shadowsMaxTexRes=4096
r_antialiasingtaasharpening = 1.0
sys_MaxFPS = 300
r_supersampling = 0
r_ssdo = 0
r_vsync = 1
create a simple .txt file, copy paste that in there, customize it a bit later, but just test if it works, then twink it later, if needed. Rename it to “user.cfg”. Put this file right in the top level directory of the game, with the system.cfg file in there, etc…
Then simply add this line of code to Steam Launcher:
+exec user.cfg
Let me know if this helps!
