Multiplayer Shadows

I've got an idea for making the mutiplayer experience maybe a little smoother: during sp I turned on playershadow and I lost 10 fps. I noticed during multiplayer that it is always on and g_showplayershadow is set to "0" so.... I'm not super savy so I thought I might throw this at you guys and see if there's a way around it.

The only way I've found to disable this is to disable shadows completely before a multiplayer game.

If I'm not mistaken, they're removing the ability to do that in upcoming patches, as well as gamma controls etc. So the player can't just turn off shadows to see where others are trying to hide in them.

I'm just hoping for a console command or modification of the game itself, cause this pretty much craps on my multiplay experience.

It's impossible to turn off shadows in multiplayer, this is considered cheating since those not using shadows would have an advantage and id doesn't want Doom3 multiplayer to not use shadows after all the effort they went to.

Yeah... that'd be like, Thief, without the dark corners to hide in...