Graphical difference between 3rd person and drone. No shadows in 3rd person mode. SU2B


ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
When in 3rd person view the graphics look like ■■■■. Mostly because there are no shadows in 3rd person view and I think that the graphics in general are a bit worse in 3rd person view compared to 1st person and drone view.

NOTE! I’m running Sim Update 2 Beta, I’m not sure if this is a problem in the stable build!

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

NO graphical mods installed.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

Always there, every flight.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. Load in to flight.
  2. Compare 3rd person view with 1st person and drone view.

YOUR SETTINGS

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

Yes, no changes made.

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card.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 RTX 4070, driver ver. 576.02 from April 16th

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

4070, Ryzen 7 7800x3d

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MEDIA

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• No. Shadows are present and quality seems consistent between the different modes.

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• Third person - Avatar view

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My rig (from Nvidia App)
NVIDIA system information report created on: 04/21/2025 17:15:44
NVIDIA App version: 11.0.3.232
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26100
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 576.02 - Wed Apr 16, 2025
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i9-12900
RAM: 64.0 GB
Storage (2): SSD - 931.5 GB,SSD - 931.5 GB

Graphics card
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 6144
Graphics clock: 1785 MHz
Resizable bar: Yes
Memory data rate: 19.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 256-bit
Memory bandwidth: 608.064 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 40843 MB
Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB GDDR6X
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 32651 MB
Video BIOS version: 94.04.65.00.3e
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen4
Device ID: 10DE 2482 88131043
Part number: G141 0010

Display (1): ViewSonic VX3276-QHD
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (native)
Refresh rate: 60 Hz
Desktop colour depth: Highest (32-bit)
HDCP: Supported

Display (3): ViewSonic VX3276-QHD
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (native)
Refresh rate: 60 Hz
Desktop colour depth: Highest (32-bit)
HDCP: Supported

Display (2): ViewSonic VX3276-QHD
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (native)
Refresh rate: 60 Hz
Desktop colour depth: Highest (32-bit)
HDCP: Supported

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• YES

XBOX Series X

SU 2 Still not fixed.

This section is dedicated to regressions found in the Sim Beta related to download & installation, performance and graphics issues. While we understand there may old bugs that still exist from previous versions, there is no need to re-report them as they are already logged internally. Anything that isn’t a specific regression will be closed. Thank you for understanding.