POI Davis Station (AU), Antarctica after SU3

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: Davis Station scenery in Antarctica turned into a giant green square fortress after Sim Update 3.

Coordinate or location of issue: Davis Station in Antarctica, it is one of the sceneries of the Oceania scenery update that came a think last year.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

Everytime I go there.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. Go to Davis Station in free flight

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using: PC, STEAM

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? NO

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12? DX12

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? NVIDIA 3080TI

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
7800x3d

MEDIA

Can confirm OPs Issue in v1.5.27.0. Looks like there is a terrain elevation mismatch:

Expand to see my basic PC specs:
Item Setting
CPU i7-12700K (no overclocking or undervolting)
RAM 32 GB 5200 MHz DDR5 CL40 RAM
GPU Intel Arc 770 (16GB, v32.0.101.6314)
REBAR BIOS Setting On
Main MSFS monitor 55" Hisense U7 4K TV @ 120Hz
Secondary monitors Two 32" 1080p 1360 x 768 @ 60 Hz
Internet Starlink, with max download speeds of ~ 200 Mbps
Peripherals Microsoft USB Natural Keyboard, Microsoft USB Wireless Intellimouse Explorer, Xbox 360 Wired Controller, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
OS Windows 11 Pro 24 H2 v26100.4946 + all OS updates.
MSFS 2024 Edition MS Store Premium Deluxe + all WUs & CUs
Downloaded Content None (i.e., all Streamed)
Build Version SU3 v1.5.27.0
3rd-Party & Community Addons None

No performance-improving applications are installed (e.g. for CPU or GPU improvements).
Neither the Intel Arc Control Service or Arc Control App is running.

Expand to see my graphics settings
Item Setting
Display Mode Full Screen
HDR10 On
Exposure Compensation EV -1
Full Screen Res 3840 x 2160
Anti-Aliasing TAA
Render scaling 65 (Resolution: 2496 x 1404)
AMD FidelityFX Sharpening 150
Max Frame Rate On
Max Frame Rate Value 60
Frame Generation AMD FSR 3
Framerate Multiplier 2x
VSync Off (N/A)
VSync Interval Half refresh rate (N/A)
Dynamic Settings On
Frame Rate Target 30
- -
Global Rendering Quality Custom
Terrain LOD 400
Off Screen Terrain Pre-Cache Ultra
Displacement Mapping On
Buildings High
Trees Medium
Plants Medium
Rocks Medium
Grass Medium
Object LOD 200
Volumetric Clouds Ultra
Texture Resolution High
Anisotropic Filtering 16x
Water Waves Medium
Raytraced Shadows On
Shadow Maps 2048
Terrain Shadows 512
Contact Shadows High
Windshield Effects High
Ambient Occulsion High
Cubemap Reflections 256
Raymarched Reflections Medium
Light Shafts Ultra
Depth of Field Off
Motion Blur Off
Glass Cockpit Refresh Rate High
Characters Quantity Low
Characters Variety Medium
Characters Quality Medium
Airport Services Quantity Low
Airport Service Variety Ultra
Parked Aircraft Quantity Off
Parked Aircraft Variety Ultra
Aircraft Traffic Quantity Medium
Aircraft Traffic Variety Ultra
Road Traffic Medium
Sea Traffic Medium
Fauna Ultra
Expand to see my other settings
Item Setting
Online Tab
Photogrammetry On
Aircraft Traffic Type Real-Time Online
Air Traffic in Career Off
Live Weather On
Multiplayer On
Multiplayer Servers West USA
Show MP aircraft in close proximity Off
Rolling Cache 16GB
Bandwidth Unlimited
Flight Model Tab
Flight Model Modern
Advanced Options Tab
Developer Mode Off (Dev-FPS enabled by using the -showFramerate switch)
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A post was merged into an existing topic: Airport discrepancies between Flight Planners (in-sim EFB & web-based)

Fixed for me: