Blurry buildings after update - Photogrammetry issue?

All the buildings in the region of Brazil that had already been photogrammetrically surveyed are experiencing the same problem. In São Paulo, the buildings look like they’ve survived earthquakes, in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, the same thing happens, and Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio looks like it was painted white.

I hope this is fixed as soon as possible.

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It’s not even working properly anymore–everyday the performance of the sim in general seems to degrade more and more. I’m almost to the point of throwing in the towel…

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Can we expect a fix soon?

Hoping they fix it and don’t leave this piece of junk behind to get you through to 2024… Which I definitely won’t buy from them… If they work so poorly, ruining something that works, imagine how they’ll work on something that was already created as a piece of junk…

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Same in Italy , Milan, Venice, Turin are broken.

MSFS2020

Manual and Rolling cache deleted and disabled

Window 10

DX12

Milan

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Honestly, how did this not get tested before being pushed out. There can only be two explanations

  1. They are testing on a different build than we have
  2. They are not testing

Both situations are crazy.

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The destroyed photogrammetry was also present during the beta in Zurich. At that time, an update was required to repair Zurich. This was also mentioned in the beta changelog. Here:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sim-update-16-beta-1-39-6-0-release-notes-july-8-2025/729004?u=lukg8843

Amsterdam and Frankfurt right now… Something is really messed up

MSFS2020 Steam version
DX11
RTX4070, Ryzen 7 5800X

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Any chance of an update or word from devs / official moderators on how the fix on this issue is progressing currently ?

Good morning folks,

I’m going to move this topic back to the Bug Reporting Hub > Scenery and Airports category as it seems a number of users are experiencing issues with photogrammetry scenery. Could I please ask that users include the full Bug Reporting Template when creating a post, as this is incredibly helpful data to provide as much information to the development team as possible. I’ll post the template below for you all.

We’ll make sure to get this logged internally for investigation by the development team!

Thanks
The MSFS Team

Using the template below will greatly help the team reproduce the issue and ease the process of fixing it. Before posting, search for an existing report. If you are not sure it’s a bug, please first report in User Support Hub.

3 tags are required - add them in the tag section next to the title above:

  • One for iteration (msfs-2020 or msfs-2024)

  • One for platform (ms-store, steam, xbox , or xcloud)

  • One for aircraft if related (start typing in your aircraft name in the tag section and pick correct option)

Feel free to delete this quote section after adding your appropriate tags.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

Coordinate or location of issue:

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

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:

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

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
7800x3d

MEDIA

Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring.

Same issue in Edinburgh.

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it’s a global issue

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Thank you Chewwy for looking into this, what appears to be a global and rather general issue. I do hope for a fix soon! :slightly_smiling_face:

Hey again folks,

Just a small update to let you know that I’ve now feedback-logged this for investigation. Again any further information that you can provide will be helpful for the team such as platform (MS Store, Steam, Xbox etc.) and sim version (2024 or 2020) etc.

Thanks again,
The MSFS Team

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I’ve never gotten out of the SU16 preview.
Could that be due to that?

Definitely not, I’m not part of the SU16 preview and I have the same issue.

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: I played a little in the morning (25.9.) and everything was fine. Then I turned the game off and on after a while and the Japan update downloaded. Since then I see blurry buildings like in the pictures. Tried to delete rollingcache, SceneryCache and SceneryIndexes, it didnt help. No change in settings helps.

Coordinate or location of issue: Pilsen, Prague, Brno all in Czechia, but I tried also Vienna Austria, Berlin Germany, all the same.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Everytime, since the Japan update was downloaded and installed.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. Just run the game and fly

YOUR SETTINGS

What peripherals are you using: Just a joystick Thrustmaster

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? Never

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12? DX 11

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 3080ti, drivers 581.29

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? CPU 9800X3D, in normal mode play on Ultra, in VR on Med

MEDIA

Those from my first post are from Pilsen main square.

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For clarification, for me the issue is only present in MSFS 2020. 2024 looking good for now.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

PG sceneries displaying incorrectly (as screenshots on thread) since Japan update. New York seemed ok last time I checked though.

FREQUENCY

Every time I run the sim since the Japan update

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Just run the sim and fly

MY SETTINGS

Had developer mode on at time of update.

DX12 - generally use ultra settings, normal mode

RTX 4090 mobile, 573.40 drivers

i7-13850HX

Windows 11