cant turn shadow off?

[echo]

Hello all,

I'm not sure if my mind is playing tricks on me, but I could've sworn that I used to be able to turn shadow setting completely off like a few weeks ago. But I just reinstalled wow on a new computer, and now the best I can do is turn the shadow setting to "low".

Is blizzard forcing us to turn shadows on to some degree? I thought shadow was one of the most detrimental non-essential graphical options that we should turn off completely? Or is this a hardware thing? I was using a DX10 video card on the old computer, and a DX11 card on the new computer. Is that a factor? Is there a way to turn shadow off completely? Does it even matter anymore?

Thanks in advance to any who can shed some light. Have a happy valentine's day tomorrow. :)

[lans83]

I was wondering the same thing. I've been having problems with my computer when playin WoW lately, and was thinking after seeing this in the settings that it was the culprit.

[Ualaa]

You cannot with the slider in the game, that gets you between level 1 and 5.
But with: /console shadowMode 0... you can set it to zero.

[crowdx]

You cannot with the slider in the game, that gets you between level 1 and 5.
But with: /console shadowMode 0... you can set it to zero.

Is there a way to set this in the config file or only in the console? When playing on my laptop I REALLY would like EVERYTHING turned off and so a config with all video set to the lowest possible would be very cool.

[Starbuck_Jones]

What about the new water effects, is there a way to disable those? Lately the reflections from the water effects in zones like Twilight and Uldum just irritate me to where I avoid the areas in game.

[Ualaa]

Not sure, on the console stuff.. but yes for the water stuff.
I'm using... on every swap of regions, run this for the new master:

/console farclip 1250
/console groundEffectDensity 36
/console groundEffectDistance 260
/console environmentDetail 40
/console particleDensity 75
/console shadowMode 0
/console waterDetail 0
/console reflectionMode 0
/console sunShafts 0
/console basemip 1
/console terrainMipLevel 1
/console projectedTextures 0
/console weatherDensity 0
/console componentTextureLevel 1
/console textureFilteringMode 1
/console Sound_EnableAllSound 1



And run this for all of the other characters (the slaves):

/console farclip 300
/console groundEffectDensity 0
/console groundEffectDistance 0
/console environmentDetail 0
/console particleDensity 10
/console shadowMode 0
/console waterDetail 0
/console reflectionMode 0
/console sunShafts 0
/console basemip 1
/console terrainMipLevel 1
/console projectedTextures 0
/console weatherDensity 0
/console componentTextureLevel 0
/console textureFilteringMode 0
/console Sound_EnableAllSound 0

[lans83]

Thanks alot for these Ualaa. Hopefully it'll help out alot when I make the changes.


edit: K, do I make some macros ingame with these commands in them, or how do I go about using these? I tried making two macros for each, since they extend the 255 limit and I have yet to switch to a macro addon. Or is this intended for ISBoxer in one of the settings?