Shadows from trees, shrubs and rocks are sharp and meet the ground where they should. They were off because about one start in four to fifteen lost the graphics card on its first frames. A setting that skips one occlusion step cleared 48 of 48 test starts, and the sharper shadows cost no more than the old ones in testing; the crash still came about one start in 60 until its cause was found and fixed on November 4.

Dense meadows briefly showed an overflow note on screen after this landed, and that is hidden.