Forth Bridges missing after march 2025 update (Sim Update 1)

[Gromit1065]

I tried the sim after the update on 5/6th march and the bridges (shown here on a previous screenshot) are missing totally. Plz look carefully down the back of the sofa and see if you can put them back.

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[Speed1994]

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Disabled scenery for base install? correct or not?

same as you… (2020) UK and USA points of interest were disabled. I’m pretty sure they weren’t previously, so Im not quite sure when they were disabled… and if this was intentional e.g. to prevent conflicts perhaps? as you, I re-enabled just in case, but Im not 100% sure if this is intended or not?!

[DementedCorn327]

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[Speed1994]

@Gromit1065 @DementedCorn327 Can you check whether you have UK Points of Interest disabled in ‘My Library’?

[EarthFlight42]

This is most likely the more general regression of many missing 3D models described here:

World photographer FS2024: Several POI 3D models missing in game (SU 1 beta regression)

*Update 2025-02-23 by author: By doing an A-B test I found that several (not all) issues described in this thread occur in SimUpdate 1 Beta 1.3.22.0 (and now in release 1.3.23), but were not present in original release 1.2.11.0. ISSUE DESCRIPTION Description of the issue: The World photographer missions each have a cover photo, usually showing the place or point of interest you are about to visit. Several of them show the POI or landscape differently (usually better) than what you see when actu…

I expected many more poeple would stumble over it now that the bridges are “officially” broken (that is, the regression made it into the SU 1 release). I tried to draw the dev’s attention to this imho severe regression in time, but to no avail. Maybe it helps if you vote over there too.

[Speed1994]

@EarthFlight42

I tried to draw the dev’s attention to this imho severe regression in time, but to no avail

The topic was marked as feedback-logged 5 days ago

[BeefiestAxis718]

I’ve got same issue no Forth bridges and the UK points if interest says it’s being streamed

[DementedCorn327]

Good point to check, it is streamed:

[Mobias7]

Yeah I just noticed mine isn’t working either.

[DementedCorn327]

I found the issue: I was looking at the wrong UK point of interest in My Library

In UK WU17 you have a points of interest that is streamed by default:

But in UK WU3 you also have a points of interest that is disabled I assume by default and in which those POIs are included:

Once enabled, POIs bridges are back:

[madminceheid]

I see references to MSFS 2020 above. The very same issue applies to MSFS-2024, and is resolved in the same way.

[Gromit1065]

I think you and DenmentedCorn 327 are talking about MSFS ‘2020’ but this thread is about MSFS 2024. So I happen to have both sims and use them both often.
In 2020 there is no problem but the bridges (streamed in like all scenery in '24) are missing. That was my point.

[DementedCorn327]

I was referring to msfs-2024, see the screenshots. Have you activated in My Library the points of interest part of WU3 ?.

[Speed1994]

@Gromit1065

I think you and DenmentedCorn 327 are talking about MSFS ‘2020’ but this thread is about MSFS 2024

Nope, we are both asking you about the ‘My-Library’ menu in MSFS2024.

[Gromit1065]

Oh I didn’t know there was such a thing. I will look for it - meanwhile I thought we were only on sim update 1 or perhaps 2 at most - the one about a week ago

[Speed1994]

@Gromit1065

I thought we were only on sim update 1 or perhaps 2 at most - the one about a week ago

MSFS2024 is on Sim Update 1 and both sims are on World Update 19.

The content you need to check is in World Update 3

[Gromit1065]

thanks for explainng. I started '24 yesterday and looked at the menus shown (I presume they did’t exist before and everything was streamed at us. Anyway actvated some inc Uk and bridges are back. I am still wondering why all scenery isn’t activated by default if it is streamed as and when we are ‘there’.

[Mustang242Sqn]

@DementedCorn327

But in UK WU3 you also have a points of interest that is disabled I assume by default and in which those POIs are included:

Where it shows “9/9 items”, I can’t understand what those two numbers mean if one of them should not indicate the number of active packages?! If it showed “8/9” then it would be quite apparent that something was turned off…

I have noticed missing POIs during my brief looks at 2024 and simply chalked it up as yet another 2024 problem, having even checked that all my World Updates were fully enabled (as far as the first digit equalled the second digit).

Another poor interface design choice right there.

Well found and thanks for the information!

[DementedCorn327]

@Mustang242Sqn

Where it shows “9/9 items”, I can’t understand what those two numbers mean if one of them should not indicate the number of active packages?! If it showed “8/9” then it would be quite apparent that something was turned off…

Good point, I also think the 1st number should indicate the number of enabled packages. If one is disabled, the number should be reduced to just show the active ones. So could be a bug, I searched for an existing report but unsuccessful so far.

[CD0139]

The first number is the number of items in the package that meet your search criteria or filters. With no search string or filters selected it shows all the items.

Select the disabled filter and this would show 1/9 if the POI is the only item disabled in WU3.

I suspect that the POI file was updated and was reset to disabled at that time. I noticed that many of the London POI LOD issues were fixed recently.