Extreme ground texture color difference in Arizona

RickHRB · April 15, 2025, 6:07pm

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
Extreme ground texture color difference between two (satelite?) tiles in Arizona. See picture which has an inset of the nav panel to show the location.

Did you experience this issue before you joined the Beta?
I don’t know

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:
See picture

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Have a free flight in that area
See the color difference

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:
Pimax Crystal

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version:
NVIDIA 572.60

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
i9, 4090, 64GB

MEDIA

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meh1951 · April 15, 2025, 10:42pm

Yea I saw it also.

SmotheryVase665 · April 16, 2025, 7:26pm

@RickHRB
I suspect what you are seeing was present prior to SU2. I reported a simlar color difference somewhat further north in Arizona in January:

I don’t think any Bing ground texures have been specifically changed in any of the SU2 builds.

RickHRB · April 17, 2025, 9:46am

You are probably right. But being in the Beta, I cannot test how it was before Beta.

Vincent1064 · May 29, 2025, 2:18pm

Still there in SU3 Beta 1.5.3

25 nm east of Page, AZ (KPGA):

Around Goulding Lodge airport, AZ (UT25):

DanDaredum · June 5, 2025, 7:10pm

It’s really bad if you fly just north of Pheonix. Just fly the Quacky1 SID out of KPHX.

SU3 beta. Will they ever get it fixed? Who knows…

A320TA · June 8, 2025, 9:34pm

Oh this is funny because I’m flying the quakcy1 with the same livery as I am reading this

A320TA · June 8, 2025, 9:37pm

I think they just need to make it so we can actually download more of the world vs. sceneries. Don’t love the streaming idea, would much rather download install more than 18gb for the sim to work properly.

DanDaredum · June 8, 2025, 11:24pm

One of my favorite routes is between Salt lake City and Phoenix. Beautiful scenery. Well except that area haha. I actually thinks it looks better in 2020 with 400 lod.

A320TA · June 8, 2025, 11:32pm

Agreed. Was flying the same route and on my return flight I found one a little after the grand canyon

Chewwy94 · June 9, 2025, 9:11am

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.

Vincent1064 · December 1, 2025, 5:14am

Was just getting update my scenery of Goulding Lodge UT25 and see even after all these years the awful artefact ;(

On one side there’s a dedicated upgrade with all the mesa’s and on the other there’s this low quality blend between two satellite images ;(