Graphic Cards bad soft shadows..

[mufaddal]

i get Bad Soft Shadows on the ozone3d shadows benchmark..

With ATi HD 4850 and AMD Phenom ii x2 550 BE 3.1 ghz, 2gb RAM Win xp sp3.

the shadows look like a grid of rows and columns.. is this normal ?

i get the same thing in the game GRID.

 

[saumilsingh]

Those look like some very good soft shadows to me. The 'grid' effect you speak of seems to be the normal mapping on the tiles interacting with the shadows.

 

[stalker]

Have you compared your results with those of others?
Those look like very decent screenies to me.

@sawmill, I really don't think normal mapping will produce such artifacts.

 

[saumilsingh]

^ Why not? That's the entire point of soft shadows - to carry over any effects applied onto the original surface.
Otherwise we might as well have hard black shadows with diffused edges.