CU15 - Portion of Minneapolis/St. Paul Photogrammetry Now Missing/Bugged

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

With City Update 15 enabled, there is a large strip/band of photogrammetry scenery, just south of Minneapolis/St. Paul, which isn’t displaying properly. I have been flying over this area every day since CU15 was released (last Friday), and this issue just began today. Within this specific area, the photogrammetry is displaying only partially, while the AI-generated/placed autogen buildings are also being rendered. The photogrammetry ground textures within this area are also not displaying, with only the base/low-res aerials showing. It’s as if there is an exclude missing, in this one strip/band/block, which should be canceling out the AI/autogen buildings and low-res ground textures.

The area that this issue presents itself is located starting at around:
44.82846288979808, -93.55922810108856
and extends all the way east to around:
44.82660145573753, -92.94449377998367.

As I mentioned, this issue was not present until today. From Friday (when CU15 was released) through Monday (yesterday), the scenery in this area looked perfect/there were no such issues at all. I have emptied my community folder, deleted my rolling cache file (multiple times), have disabled and re-enabled the city (and world) updates, done multiple restarts of the sim, and even completely reinstalled the sim, and the issue remains.

The first two images show a chunk of the area/issue I’m referring to - noticeable by the difference in the colors/values of the ground textures/aerials. Where as the whole area should be (and was until today) covered in photogrammetry ground textures, the problematic area only displays the base/lower-res ground textures (the middle, darker area).

Close to the ground, in this problem area, you can see that the AI/autogen buildings remain present, sticking through the photogrammetry. And, while other elements of the photogrammetry scenery shows through (different elevations), the ground textures are predominantly the base/low-res aerials.

Can repro - see my post in the Polls / Feedback topis.

Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.

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I’m seeing the same thing in multiple strips, one is in white bear lake as well as others. I tried deactivating addons that might affect this and this did not resolve the problem. This was not an issue the first few days after the new scenery released. It only appeared a week or so later.

I’ve been noticing that as well, that it encompasses more than just the area I initially reported. It’s really strange that the first few days after the release of CU15, the photogrammetry all around the Twin Cities was absolutely perfect, but ever since the fourth or fifth day after it was released, its been bugged and there has been no changes/improvements since.

Being a resident of the area, and flying around the Twin Cities in MSFS 2024 all the time, it was absolutely wonderful within the first few days of the CU15 release, but since then, once the scenery issues started, I’ve avoided flying around the area and have thought seriously about disabling CU15.

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