ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
The new apron night lighting feature (“Added lights on generic airports, other improvements will happen in SU6.”) appears to only impact certain aprons - see screenshots.
This may be “by-design” at this point as the release notes do say “…other improvements will happen in SU6”.
Coordinates or location:
I picked two airports at random:
- Punta Penasco (MMPE)
- Southeast Iowa Rgnl (KBRL)
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Only tested once so far at the two airports mentioned above.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
- In free flight, start cold-n-dark in any aircraft on any parking spot at either of the two airports mentioned. Set the time to midnight with clear skies.
- Enter the cockpit, switch to the drone camera & rise a 100’ feet or so so one can view the airport aprons around the terminals. At either airport, you should see one apron area lit, but the aprons in the forground by the terminals (where the aircraft are parked in my screenshots) is unlit.
Expected behaviour: Those apron areas should be lit too.
YOUR SETTINGS
What peripherals are you using:
N/A for this bug.
[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No / No
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) Driver v32.0.23017.1001 (Adrenalin v26.1.1)
[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
Expand to see my basic PC specs:
| Item | Setting |
|---|---|
| CPU | i7-12700K (no overclocking or undervolting) |
| RAM | 32 GB 5200 MHz DDR5 CL40 RAM |
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) Driver v32.0.23017.1001 (Adrenalin v26.1.1) |
| Rebar BIOS Setting | On |
| OS | Windows 11 Pro 25 H2 v26200.8655 + all OS updates. |
| MSFS 2024 Edition | MS Store Aviator + all WUs & CUs |
| Current Build Version | SU6 v1.8.5.0 |
| Downloaded Core Content | None (i.e., all Streamed) |
Expand to see my graphics settings
| Item | Setting |
|---|---|
| Display Mode | Full Screen |
| HDR10 | On |
| Exposure Compensation | EV-1 |
| Full Screen Res | 3840 x 2160 |
| Anti-Aliasing | TAA |
| Render scaling | 100 |
| AMD FidelityFX Sharpening | 200 |
| Max Frame Rate | On |
| Max Frame Rate Value | 60 |
| Frame Generation | AMD FSR 3 |
| Framerate Multiplier | 2x (N/A) |
| VSync | Off (N/A) |
| VSync Interval | Monitor refresh rate (N/A) |
| Dynamic Settings | On |
| Frame Rate Target | 40 |
| - | - |
| Global Rendering Quality | Custom |
| Terrain LOD | 400 |
| Off Screen Terrain Pre-Cache | Ultra |
| Displacement Mapping | On |
| Buildings | High |
| Trees | Medium |
| Plants | High |
| Rocks | High |
| Grass | High |
| Object LOD | 200 |
| Volumetric Clouds | Ultra |
| Texture Resolution | High |
| Anisotropic Filtering | 16x |
| Water Waves | High |
| Raytraced Shadows | Off |
| Shadow Maps | 2048 |
| Terrain Shadows | 512 |
| Contact Shadows | High |
| Windshield Effects | Medium |
| Ambient Occulsion | High |
| Cubemap Reflections | 256 |
| Raymarched Reflections | Medium (reduces windshield reflections) |
| Light Shafts | Ultra |
| Depth of Field | Ultra |
| Motion Blur | Off |
| Visual Particle Effects Quality | High |
| Glass Cockpit Refresh Rate | High |
| Characters Quantity | Low |
| Characters Variety | Ultra |
| Characters Quality | Medium |
| Airport Services Quantity | Low |
| Airport Service Variety | Ultra |
| Parked Aircraft Quantity | Low |
| Parked Aircraft Variety | Ultra |
| Aircraft Traffic Quantity | Low |
| Aircraft Traffic Variety | Ultra |
| Road Traffic | Ultra |
| Sea Traffic | Off |
| Fauna | Ultra |
| Seatbelt Visibility | On |
MEDIA
Punta Penasco (MMPE) - note the aircraft parked on the unlit apron:
Southeast Iowa Rgnl (KBRL) - note the aircraft parked on the unlit apron:
