a couple more sim updates and we’ll have the best scenery
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Good grief, I hope this isn’t true.
Devs, you’ve been slowly chipping away at the LOD distance for a long time, pleeease don’t pull it back any more. It really damages the experience.
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Don’t downgrade any LOD detail on pc, Asobo! We had this issue in SU5 and it looked terrible.
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Old complaint, yet still it remains:
What’s the point of having a powerful computer if the aggressive LOD management means you can see where there is an obvious drop off in quality?
I’m a broken record on this, but we desperately need sliders that control the different visual aspects of scenery:
It will allow us each to set the quality of various aspects of the scenery settings according to individual preference. This will move us away from this everyone must be able to run the sim at ultra settings thinking, but where the sim is limited by aggressive LOD to compensate.
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Looks to me like in the latest beta, LOD distances are yet again reduced. Probably why lots are seeing performance increases.
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If the LOD distances reduce any further our sim experience won’t be much better than this!
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I really hope that’s not the case. It was already very bad.
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I loved this game!
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Likewise!
Had it on console, waaaaay back when.
The arcade machine was rare in the UK, but full motion 
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I have been trying to find a way to get ground textures around the aircraft to display properly for days now. It seems the ONLY way to do this is if you set the LOD slider to 400. I see an immediate difference at this setting. All textures load quickly and fully around the vicinity of the aircraft I’m flying.
That’s great for when you’re flying somewhere like Western Australia where there isn’t much by the way of autogen to render too. It’s when I go to places like the UK with loads of buildings all around that I cannot maintain any decent performance at that LOD setting. So I have to reduce down to 100-150 and then it’s back to poor loading textures around the aircraft again. It’s doing my head in.
What is the point in having a beautiful sim with all the eye candy such as this when the ground textures around you are all messed up and not loading as they should?
Don’t get me wrong, they do load, but after about 6-8 seconds. I can count down each rendered tile loading. It’s almost laughable at this point.
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I’ve been annoyed for a long time that Asobo treat us all like we are beginners, and need to be on “easy” mode. As you point out, even in FSX we had more control over graphical aspects than we get now.
And it’s not just the graphics, it’s everywhere. Starting a flight in the air, we are not allowed to choose the altitude nor the heading. We can not save our config files, so we could set up our systems for different scenarios. We cannot start a plane at a runway without the engines running, or start a plane at a gate with the engines running (although this can be done with a shortcut, it’s awkward for VR users). We do not have control over the size/colour of the taxi ribbon within FS, but have to resort to an add-on. etc.
Please Asobo, give us the option of an advanced mode so that those of us who wish to can tune FS the way WE want it, rather than the way YOU have chosen for us.
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Most annoying for me are the late pop-ins of objects all around (some don’t show up all) the sim-world.
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Wonder if this is in part to help long distance flights performance degradation ‘fixes’ brought in from recent release notes.
Many graphical regressions have been creeping in since release but when they miraculously return in 2024… Oh boy… hang on tight!
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I think they will be even further reduced. I expect a very small draw distance for terrain and objects trees etc. I hope that I am surprised and wrong.
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I also noticed some 3rd party and even first party objects(like the pyramids of Giza) are visible WAY out in the distance but the trees are in that very short LOD. The trees are only about a mile out but I can see some airport details now at 20 miles away(which I assume is loading a considerable amount of data drawing 3rd party items like that). I’m not even close to IAD but my KIAD is visible, Washington DC add-on, KDCA and Andrews AFB are being drawn at once, with 15 miles of ‘blur’ between the those and the visible trees. And that’s only at ~4500’.
I agree. LOD is definitely an important thing to improve and a high level of LOD (terrain, textures and objects) need to be available at the higher settings.
XBox settings need to be separated from PC settings too, and users need to understand that they may not be able to use the sim at full settings.
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Gig connection, 5600x, 7800xt, just cruising through the Bahamas
3 years, 15 world scenery updates, 14 sim updates.
Just unacceptable anymore.
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So frustrating. LOD is definitely getting worse each update.
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I can’t tell anymore if replies are associated with Xbox or PC.
I’m on PC with 4K, HDR, Ultra, TAA.
terrain LoD = 600
object LoD = 900
Graphics look okay to me.
Performance could not be any better.
And the graphics is great.
FS2020 is an aviation sim.
Not the Indianapolis 500.
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