MSFS 2020 SU5 Difference between LOD 200, 400, 800 during descent from FL170 to FL090

[Buddywoof3669]

Side by Side Graphic Setting Comparison - Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 - YouTube

[Starjun5842]

This is the biggest turnoff of SU5 and MSFS now!!! Many landmarks or skyscrappers that defined the cities or used for VFR cant be seen where you expect to see it in real life, you will need to fly super close enough for it pop out!! I truly pity users who fly VFR…

And some of the users that commented everything is gd etc…i obviously recognized these users are also the ones that started editing values in file to try to get back to the scenery quality of SU4…lol.

Asobo is a joke, developing flight sim but with little understanding of the community and the flight sim genre. Or maybe they are really just after more customers and money, realistic or not they really didnt care.

And MS, dont forget they retrenched the entire team who developed FSX when business was no gd as reported in press… and “abandon” the community for dunno hw many years? And is now bck claiming the importance of recognizing FSX during their early MSFS campaign…

[GenTVDinner]

Can confirm - the secret trick to upping the LOD was ensuring your profile reads custom. If its set to Ultra as mine was and you only overwrote and set the file to RO, there would be no increase in the LOD.

Just to be clear since its late for me: the below config works increasing LOD at the expense of FPS obvioulsy. If the Preset reads Ultra - the LOD increase won’t work.

{Graphics
Version 1.1.0
Preset Custom
{Texture
MaxAnisotropy 16
Quality 0
}
{SuperSampling
SuperSampling 3
}
{Terrain
LoDFactor 9.000000
}
{ObjectsLoD
LoDFactor 9.000000
}

[LA952]

That’s the bottom line, money, money, money…

[madbraindoc]

Thanks for the tips guys. I didn’t see any difference between LOD 2 and LOD 9 previously, but when I set the Preset to custom I see trees out to the horizon on 4.0:

LOD= 9 with Preset to Ultra:

LOD=4 with preset to Custom:

Personally I can’t see much else that is different besides the object draw distance. Agree about the oversaturated and blurry textures. Will try sharpening.

[madbraindoc]

So, I’m OK with the visuals on 4.0. I could increase LOD to 5.0 but I get stutter when turning my head. I’m hoping that someone figures a way around the memory cap they have going on. I think I could push the LOD higher if I could store more data in my RAM.

[AppliedPython94]

Yes RAM is ■■■■

Have 32gb but ONLY 10 gb is used
Probably because that darn xbox just has 16

What a mess

[madbraindoc]

My max CPU RAM usage is less than 6 GB. I have 32…

[MSGX88]

yep same here, mind boggling isnt it.

[MLTAVIATOR99]

Yep I find turning up the LOD my ram doesn’t really increase but it introduces stutter on my end.

[Garack666]

It’s a xbox port now Not what we paid for

[GruesomeEight66]

I’m the same with my PC
LOD 4 looks great and I get a solid 60fps but if I pan left or right it all CPU cores spike to 100% for a couple of seconds and it takes 2-3 seconds for it to settle back to 60 fps

very annoying