Airport flood lighting during nightime (Flicker & FPS drop) - Video Attached

Sim Update 2 Beta | MSFS 2024 Install, Performance & Graphics
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Description of the issue:
SU2 Beta, night time graphics is all over the place and unplayable

Did you experience this issue before you joined the Beta?
No

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Left airport mods in place as specifically testing these but issue affects default airports that have lighting the same.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? Always during night time operations. The airport ramp floodlights are either very low intensity (too low) and have no effect or flicker onto full intensity as if daylight. Also when attempting to land at an airport at night with this constant flickering and lighting issue the impact on FPS is substantial dropping to 3-4 FPS from a usually steady 60-80 fps.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Load plane at airport during night time
  2. Walk about, or look about, or try to fly

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version: Latest AMD Adrenaline 25.3.1

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
AMD3900X with Sapphire 6800XT

MEDIA

Added a video after landing at EGNM by Orbx

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I encountered similar bugs with night lighting (here at EDDM, but also at CYVR).

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me roo, i have the same issue

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@TheOldWiseMan Are you able to confirm if you are still experiencing this issue on beta version 1.4.10.0?

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Okay. My findings are that at CYVR and EGNM the lighting Fixtures that the light should be coming from are missing. My EDDM(default) however appears to have no issues. Tested on 10850KF 3080ti 32GB mem at ultra-high mix at 4k. version 1.4.10.0

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The airport I was having this happen at isn’t anymore tested with a couple of base game and a couple of add-on planes to see if I could get it to trip up

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Tested and with 1.4.10.0 the flood lights at EGNM (where my video was from) are now working as expected. There are still ‘twinkling’ of runway lights that appears to be at the edge of the screen, but I believe that is a separate issue. So I would say the floodlight issue is fixed in 1.4.10.0

Thanks

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Thanks for the reply! I am going to mark your response as the solution for this report since it seems to have resolved, but feel free to continue using this thread if the issue re-arises.

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Sadly it is still broken in VR, seems to be triggered mostly with camera movement, but because VR is always moving, it flickers a ton.