That is similar to what I saw on PC and not the hot mess I saw earlier on XBOX.
Yeah, I think there could be a âyour computer is a potatoâ component to some of this. Maybe Xbox is a potato, I donât know, I never owned one so I donât know where they land vs PC.
Worthy of note, lots of people buy computers that arenât potatoes on paper, but are potatoes due to bloatware from names that rhyme with âsmellâ or âstralienwareâ, etc⊠Never underestimate the ability of slick marketing to turn what should be a fast computer into a steaming pile of⊠unpleasant pit toilet contents.
Anyhow⊠Enough for today.
What I was seeing in these towns on XBOX was not a potato issue, in fact, my computer is the potato. And it looks fine.
But I do suspect it was a server thing and I was getting incomplete data. Alas the TV that runs the XBOX is in use so I cannot try and replicate right now. Kicking myself for not getting screen caps when I had it running earlier.
If I can replicate, I will get pics and share.
But for tonight, I am confined to PC.
Have a good one, and thanks for testing this!
I found out itâs not just a network problem.
Bing maps in several European cities isnât as great compared with the North American maps.
After flying over a terrible rendered London, I got a very great experience flying over Pittsburgh.
So, when itâs just network problem,because Pittsburgh looks great.
Iâm on pc, I was on Xbox.
Havenât tried it since my original post, last thing I tried, I installed a mod version from google photogrammetry by a creator on flightsim.to. it was 10gb and it wasnât great either so removed it.
I get it - Paris is complex but the issue is the streaming, as you said itâs not bringing in the data correctly.
I know Vigo is smaller but boy that looked beautiful when I went for a spin. Thereâs deffo something up.
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Yes and no. The colours in real life are much more saturated than what we get from PG in the game. I am quite convinced that the drab colours do a lot to harm the overall impression that we get from PG. Melted buildings can look sort of OK at height if colours look real and this is what happens in places like Rome and its why the overall impression is that these cities look better even when they are not loading that quickly, in my opinion anyway.
Iâve changed my view about photogrammetry. Once I upped the Terrain Level of detail to 5.9 then photogrammetry display well. Iâm using an RTX 2060 Super so nothing special. The graphics are there in situ, just capped I guess for an average performance across all systems. Top: Madrid Bottom: London. Up the TLOD via USERCFG.OPT
But just look at the uniform dank grey colour of London! Yes geometrically you have achieved a good result but in terms of colour saturation London looks abysmal.
Does the PG still work as good as this?
Very hit and miss. For some yes, for others notâŠ
I do some testing tonight to see where the PG work and where it doesnât work. When I spawn in Marseilles, France it looks amazing and on point all over the place. In LA, USA it looks garbage. So it does depend on which city I fly in. When I spawn on Burbank, LA and use my drone around the âneighbourhoodâ the whole game actually freeze and I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL to exit the game.
It must be a bug as I still havenât seen LA in a good condition with PG on.
Best results i get is to lower object lod to 50 or below while set terrain lod to 400 in photogrammetry area.