City Update 9: Northeastern United States

I fly regularly from KHEF Manassas to Bay Bridge W29 for quickie GA flights. Annapolis was dreadful before, will have to check that out. Old Town Alexandria was a wet hot mess and now every single building is covered in PG accurately.

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I saw the same. I didn’t reboot when I installed the update and removed DC. Will go back and clear the cache files(not rolling cache-don’t use it) and restart.

Performance good and most scenery very good but 


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heh saw that at the armory. It’s not perfect, but still quite amazing. Still can’t get over Top Golf. I guess the circus was in town at the harbor

Just only me without white house in this update and DD– KDCA has 2 set of PAPA Lights?? :rofl:

Happy flight~

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Dose those tower really exist in the DC ?? :rofl:

Fireworks has been in the sim for at least one year, if not longer. And yes, for the USA set your time to the mentioned 4th July, 10 PM :wink:

NOTE: The Philadelphia Art Museum appears to be fixed.

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And not for the best if the Polls are to believed :scream:

Very clearly a matter of opinion! Also, politics and off topic :wink:

After Try to disabled all addons then there is one thing for sure, WH is “GONE”

Badass~

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It’s probably not meant to be seen that close, especially in one of the most restricted airspaces in the world, but the D.C. photogrammetry is almost as bad as London’s. Everything has a very strong green tint, with low contrasty washed out textures and there are melted and warped buildings everywhere. It’s also a pretty stuttery experience.

The recent Las Vegas City Update is leagues better in quality.

I’m not sure it could get any worse, but time will tell. :wink:

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Personal Comments and Observations

The Kiley Apartments (lower center) where my family used my Dad’s crash pad when he wasn’t in residence when we visited DC long ago. It was immediately recognizable once I located the Mary W. Jackson NASA building (middlecenter) which I first noticed when staying there.

I brought the drone view very low to confirm the exterior and it’s as I remembered it.

PG isn’t supposed to be viewed this close - but as a Living World that’s streamed to me over a standard Internet broadband connection and is as I remembered, it’s amazing. Being able to locate where I’ve been in DC - I’d go walk under the 695/395 for about three blocks and I’d be at the National Mall end closest to the Capitol Building. The accuracy and fidelity astonishes me still today, almost four years to when I first saw MSFS 20 in action.

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Did you figure out a way to fix the flat Congress Library and Superem court buildings?

Not yet, I went flying around other NoVa areas the rest of the night. I also haven’t tried putting my DC scenery back in either to see if the new PG just fills the gaps. I don’t want to give up my boats/bridges and the train that runs across. Plus the other 4 airports.

I was going to go through and clear all the various cache files and shader files, the usual tune-up first. Then go back adding DC back in to see what happens.

For mine, I uninstalled DC then installed the CU, and went right into the sim, the Washington monument was missing too. I figured it’d be a bit buggy without even a reboot, was more interested in the bad PG areas like the harbor and suburbs that I knew were absolutely horrid before.

That Cub is something else for spotting this stuff. I have plenty of other slow and low aircraft but holy smokes when you know exactly what you’re looking at that’s not just a ‘destination’ and completely on mental ‘autopilot’- in that Cub it’s pretty amazing where you can really feel the flight model. Unfortunately the big friggin trees to the side of my house mostly obsucre it(IRL too). But dang, it’s actually my house now, used to be a green muddy kinda-sorta road and autogen.

I flew around Crystal City and didn’t see anything like that. 395 had signs and most cars were even rendered in 3d. Looked more like CasualClick’s PG.


Only Bugged thing i see is the airport texture is getting changed.

that does look terrible. Yeah worse than Vegas



Did anybody see those flatten areas around Capital Hill and White house? I have made the community folder empty but there is no help. Those flattens are most likely related to the hand made addon buildings (Capital Hill and White house).

Please check them and see if you guys can duplicate what I have seen. Thanks.

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