$500 got me max settings working perfect on BL.
that is nowhere near a high end card.
the AMD website seems to say otherwise, it lists it as being a very good graphics card. anyways it runs any game on max settings just fine and i've never had a problem with it, so i don't see why shadows aren't working for me.
Battlefield made like a billion dollars, they can afford to hire 10 people whose only job is figuring out how to run shaders on your crap-tacular laptop. I am one guy.
that's because they want you to buy it. it's 2 generations behind and not even the best model of its generation. it's decent at best by yesterday's standards.
So my HD Graphics card is the reason why I can't run shadows?
Just because it displays things in HD doesn't mean it's that good. It's pretty much an expectation, not a feature.