Originally posted by The most stupid bird in history:

Ok so I'm not sure how to put it, the game calculates shadows in a different way on PS3 and on PC, on PS3 the alpha channel of a texture is taken into account as shadow calculations are done, on PC, even the transparent part of a texture casts shadows, making every shadow coming from alpha textures a big angular blob

...this also applies on other minor things, such as coconut trees shadows on neo bodhum (look at shadows on the ground and you'll see that every tree shadow that wasn't pre calculated will be all blocky.

Yep, I noticed this yesterday, after firing up the game on PC for th first time. Nobody seems to have an answer or work-around for this. A shame - the beach area with the palm trees could look really nice if only those palm tree shadows didn't look so obviously wrong (I am being serious - I know how they should look from my 360 version of the game, and I'm sure my PC could make them look even better than that).