No real-time shadows in editor in Unity 4.3.4 and Windows 8.1

I'm running Unity 4.3.4 Free and Windows 8.1 and I can not get real-time hard shadows to display in the Unity editor. I have added the -force-d3d11 to my shortcut. I have clicked the Use Direct3D 11 in the player settings. I have updated my graphics driver. I can't think of what else might make real-time hard shadows work. Any suggestions?

 

Look if your ambient light is white. [ Edite -> Render Settings ]
Look if in the light component , the "Strength" value after Shadow Type is "1".
Look if light color is not black.

Look if in Edite -> Project settings -> Quality , Shadow must turn on: Hard and soft.

 

Make sure that the light is a directional light , because that's the only shadow that is in the free version.

 

I just checked. Ambient light is not white. Shadow strength is 1. Light color is white. Shadows are on in QualitySettings.

Still no real-time shadows in editor. Very frustrating!

 

Yes it is a directional light.

 

Do you have enabled the "use built in lighting"-button?
Without it you will get some generic lighting instead of your directional light.

 

No shadows whether the built-in lighting button is on or off. There are no shadows in the scene window and none in the game window.

 

Are you having this problem with 4.5?
Did you get to the solution?

 

Unfortunately I have not found a solution, and the problem still exists in 4.5.

 

Having the same issue with win 8.1, I have shadows in editor and standalone on my win 7 desktop and laptop, but same standalone on win 8.1 gives no shadows. Also when ran in editor on win 8.1 I get no shadows, this is very frustrating. I have pro

 

I'm having the same problem - it's not down to the wrong settings in Unity. On OSX and Windows 7 my project has dynamic shadows from both point and directional lighting. In Windows 8.1 - no shadows at all, on a brand new GeForce GTX 860M GPU

 

@Recluse Did you figure this out? I have a 860M as well and I have the same problem. Already tried downloading the latest driver.

 

Submitted a bug report for this issue using the Roll-a-Ball tutorial. Thanks.

 

This is from the Unity Issue Tracker (see below). The issue is closed because it is "BY DESIGN"!

How is this "By Design"? Unity should have the same shadows in the editor on Windows as it does on a Mac.

I don't get it.



Missing realtime shadows on Windows editor DirectX 11 (Status: By Design)
Shadows/Lights
Jun 16, 2014
Priority: 7
Severity: 0

1.Make new project
2.Add object "plane"
3.Add object "cube"
4.Add object "directional light" and turn on hard shadows
5.Check if Player settings option "Use Direct3D 11" is enabled
6.Switch to Android platform or iOS and there will be missing shadows on editor

 

Its a problem with DX11 and mobile platforms.
Unity should add a warning on the light for this configuration.

 

That makes sense for Windows Phone, because Windows Phone does not support Unity shadows, but the shadows run fine on iOS and some Android devices, and the shadows run fine in the Unity Editor on a Mac. Where they do not show up is in the Unity Editor on a Windows machine with the exact same project. To me that is a Unity Editor problem on the PC. Also there are no shadows in the editor on my Win 8.1 machine if the DX11 box is checked or not.