PS5 Severe LOD and scenery streaming issues since SU6

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: PS5 – Severe LOD and scenery streaming issues since SU6

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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Since Sim Update 6, I have been experiencing a significant deterioration in scenery loading and FPS on PS5.

Before the update, the terrain and scenery loaded normally at a much greater distance from the aircraft. Since SU6, scenery seems to load only in a relatively small area directly underneath and around the aircraft. The distant terrain remains very low-detail or does not load properly, even when flying at altitude.

I am also experiencing noticeably lower and less stable FPS compared with before the update.

This happens even when flying in areas where I previously had good performance. It feels like the scenery is constantly being loaded around the aircraft instead of being properly streamed ahead of the aircraft.

Platform: PS5
Update: Sim Update 6

Are other PS5 players experiencing the same issue since SU6? I would like to know if this is a widespread PS5 issue or something specific to my system.

Could you please investigate the PS5 scenery streaming, LOD and memory management? The visual quality and performance are noticeably worse than before the update.

Thank you.

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There’s one ticket you can find in bug-logged tag about SU6 PS5 player experience, you are not the only PS5 player who owns this game and face all the scenery loading issues, not sure if you are sill facing the situation like can’t fly 787 and 747, I mean literally, you just can’t, especially when it’s career mode then

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Are you referring to this one: SU6: Performance/cockpit rendering on many planes completely broken after SU6 on PS5 & Xbox that is related to cockpit loading issue ?. If you have identified another report related to scenery loading issue could you please share it ?

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I don’t own the 787 but from what I’ve seen both the 787 and 747 have had performance/issues for quite a while, even before SU6 and good to know I’m not the only PS5 player experiencing these scenery issues though. Hopefully Asobo can fix the PS5 performance and scenery streaming ASAP.

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Yes! That’s the case I mentioned about, the contents which are all connected, the blurry items are also include the scenery I think, there are many replies may probably also mentioned about this scenery topic, sure, if I spotted more related cases I can share the link with you then

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Thanks for your reply, Yes, 787 is very typical, it’s almost 100% grounded, you can not even move this plane to the taxi step for career mode, so ridiculous, please don’t call this SU6 as optimization, you can properly call this as negative impact, I’ve paid for this plane but I can’t fly it? That makes no sense to me actually, in terms of 747, highly possible you will face the same issue, especially when you are about to land, and you can’t adjust any speed, altitude, AP1, APP, LOC because of blurry case, many PS5 may encounter this, you can @ your friends to follow this issue, more player call this out, the quicker develop team can fix this!

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Nice update, LOD is better and the world overall looks better (VR especially). I don’t see much detail in the grass/ground textures when flying low, just looks like a flat picture of that area from satellite view or something. Not sure if this is the case on PC and other versions of this sim/game. Would be nice if there were more 3d objects other than hills, trees, and (some) buildings. Other buildings look like pics from satellite also, they don’t render as 3d representations. I have had this game for about two weeks only so I don’t have much baseline experience of what is possible, of course I want as much of a 3d world to fly through as possible!

As of performance on this update , I have noticed some stuttering/frame drops that weren’t there at 6.0 for me (PSVR2) (base ps5). Stutters when looking left and right on the scenery out of the windows after looking at instrument panels or straight. Phantom lines when looking ahead at water sources sometimes would disappear as we approach them..

Cockpit and instruments look sharper and better in my opinion, so that’s awesome. Can’t control the steering wheel by pointing to it in VR, moving my hands anymore, just joystick. Was this intended? The pointing method wasn’t too accurate but now it seems to be totally disabled?

Still a bit of softness overall when looking out into the distance, looking forward to updates and fixes in the future.

Looking forward to more mind-blowing results, I’m sure Asobo Studio and all the developers/teams involved can continue making magic for us! Thanks for the updates

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Moderator edit for translation:

I love the concept, and the flight simulation is excellent. But after 26 hours of gameplay and spending €120, having to look at cities and landmarks with such a low level of detail on PS5 is frankly unacceptable. I’ve tested various regions, a ~500 Mbps fiber connection, and different settings, yet the problem persists. I’m not asking for high-end PC quality, just a world that actually looks like the one the game promises.

J’adore le principe et la simulation de vol est excellente. Mais après 26 heures de jeu et 120 € dépensés, devoir regarder des villes et des monuments avec un niveau de détail aussi faible sur PS5 est franchement inadmissible. J’ai testé plusieurs régions, une connexion fibre à ~500 Mb/s et différents réglages : le problème persiste. Je ne demande pas la qualité d’un PC haut de gamme, mais simplement un monde qui ressemble réellement à celui que le jeu promet.