for me this video looks like a comparison between real world to a duck tales episode, please roll back!
has anyone tried locking FPS ?
I have used some old pictures from previous builds and then today. The ones on the left are the new SU5 and the ones on the right are the old ones from previous builds.
All settings checked and the only thing I increased was clouds to ultra from high and terrain vector data to ultra. Everything else stayed the same. I have had a good increase in fps which is great, but it does seem my new ultra settings are actually worse?
Is this the LOWI scenery provided by Asobo/MS? Because I can’t re-create your setting. If you are using and third party scenery, they might need to update their settings to the new LOD behaviour of MSFS? Just guessing. On my end, MSFS looks still sharp as with SU4.
I think that’s probably true for non-Asobo sceneries. For others, I’m not so sure.
This!
Apart from the obvious: No shadows in the buildings in the background. That’s a big part in making everything look flat and cartoonish.
I think that was postponed temporarily for PC.
I thought the same thing having no issues except for over-saturation for the last couple of days. Flew over London this morning and BAM, I saw what everyone was talking about. All of a sudden there was horrendous pop-in and re-draw of the buildings all around me when I panned my view. I didn’t see any of that the last couple of days over New York or Toronto but over London it was like a bomb went off.
from msfs20 to FSX in just one update. great work Asobo
After turning OFF bloom in graphic settings, colours looks better, but before SU5 my Bloom settings was enabled.
LOWI from ORBX
Day before UPDATE SU5 26 July
After update screenshot taken today - chosen day 26 July (turned OFF BLOOM)
It not look the same.
i’ll just assume that pc will have top notch visuals with sim update 6 the very latest
I’m hoping it does but it will mean the Xbox will probably suffer and both have to run the same version.
If you think that was their solution to the performance gains, you need to look again at the resources used before/after the update. Check the RAM, CPU and GPU usage. It looks like a completely different game.
Lol, mine doesn’t look this bad at all.
If this is supposed to be high/ultra, you might want to re-apply the settings (downgrade to medium, apply, then change back to ultra). Maybe resetting the rolling cache also helps?
the same for me over Paris, but ohhh frames so stable 
i fly to fast for this system - 430kn. I come over the area, before the objects can load
Before the update, i had no problems in this city. NY looks ok.
come on M $, what should this freaky memory limit ?! I have community content that needs 22Gb Vram in VR. No wonder nothing works anymore.
As a software developer myself, I know we mostly try to do the best possible work we can and take pride when the outcome is amazing. It must have really hurt Asobo devs inside to have to “optimize” the game to the level they did. 
The sight and performance growth is amazing. I don’t understand what this is crying about. It’s very boring. There are people for whom nothing is good. They always fly over the same cities. The sight has not changed, it is wonderful. Performance is also flawless. I get 15 -20 FPS more with ultra settings.
Interesting, so why have Asobo said they’re working on addressing the problems?
Why are people so unable to understand that their one individual experience does not prove anything. The plural of anecdote is not data. I’m glad you’re happy with it, but that’s no reason to come bragging and telling others they are wrong. It is a matter of fact that there are problems, all you’re doing is gas lighting people and raising the level of emotion in the forum as they feel they have to make their case even more persuasively. If people stop telling people that are imagining or inventing things, the discussion would probably improve substantially.
It seems some here don’t want the bugs fixed because they don’t affect them, which is pretty selfish. Just go and enjoy the sim if you have nothing to add. I assume you use the game fairly casually as you aren’t bothered about any of the known and new bugs in the flight models/atc/weather/MCD|U/flight planning being fixed? Are you not grateful they have been brought to Asobo’s attention by others so you will benefit from the fixes?