Patches Broke Graphics and Draw Distance

Disappointed… I am just hoping all of these bugs and graphical glitches get worked out. I had no issues flying over New York city when this first came out. I even recorded my early flight over NY City and the difference now is so noticeable. It is constantly distance drawing and buildings looking like a Zombie Apocalypse happened. I was running GTX 1080 TI and upgraded when I found a RTX 3080 and that didn’t change anything. I have 1000Mbps internet and when I connect to east or west coast its always at 30-32 ping. I guess I don’t understand how this is happening when it was so beautiful to fly early on.

I haven’t lost faith but my playing time in October is almost null and in my head thinking maybe I should give it another 3 months of patches and updates?

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You might double check your options for online functionalitiy, Bing graphics, photog, are all set to “on”. The patch turned all mine off for some reason.
Regards

Unfortunately those are all turned on

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What do you have for a CPU? How many GHz?

Mine has returned to its former glory, I suspect it’s streaming issues causes issues for people rather than this patch

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8700k at 4.8 and never goes above 70c since I did a delid.

Maybe on Microsoft end with streaming? Didn’t have the issue for the first few weeks after release day

Do you have Nvidia Experience by chance? When I disabled its optimisation for MSFS all of the issues you are describing were resolved.

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Yes when I go into GeForce experience it says the game isn’t optimized

This is absolutely a bug on Asobo’s end. PLEASE vote for the LOD distance and Photogrammetry bugs in the Bugs section… we’re already at 350+ votes!

I have the I7 9700K@5 GHz
RTX 2080 Ti
32 GB DDR4
1 Gbps internet speed
Same issues
I’m disappointed. They advertised it with gorgeous graphics and now, they’re trying to optimize it for Xbox
I didn’t play it much in the last weeks
Hopefully, they’ll fix all those bugs

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Same. My draw distance is awful, LOD and textures are low res at best. Trees don’t appear dense or appear farther away anymore, only within a short distance from the aircraft. When the sim first released everything looked great, with great detailed draw distance, dense forests and forest covered mountains in the distance and all of that is gone. You can see on the textures where trees should be, especially on mountains but no trees. Just flat textures. I hope they get it back to how it looked on initial release.

Some areas still look great but the draw distance even in those areas is short.

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Not the best photo quality but you get the idea … Zombie buildings. This is running ultra and 200 render scaling and getting 40-45FPS around the strip

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I wonder if this is due to zoom not changing lod quality. If lod improved with zoom, would fewer people take issue?

Have you deleted your cache?

Yes I did that the other day and no change

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I reverted the settings but I still have the same problem. How can I disable it? Can you take a screen shot please

I forgot to take a screen shot during my approach into Las Vegas and all I can say is that while zooming in, the whole strip looked so horrible. Like if it got attacked by bombs

Give me a link and I will…

I think the biggest sting is that it was beautiful at launch. These aren’t complaints that we got sucked into the hype and expected more. It’s a legitimate complaint to pay $120 for a game and then watch it be slowly dismantled without any choice in the matter.

I’m sure it will be sorted out at some point but I didn’t pay to be a beta tester. It’s frustrating to build a new PC specifically for this game, finally get the product, then have it taken away in a week.

I understand game development is difficult, but that’s what beta testing is for. Things like the tall building bug after a patch is in excusable…did they load the game EVEN ONCE after compiling that version? They stick out like 10-story sore thumbs almost everywhere!

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