A few images from tonight. Brighton then Thames estuary with GB south enabled.
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Do you not have We Love VFR installed? All of those port/factory works shouldnāt be flat textures, they are all modelled in We Love VFR.
I think the only building I see from Orbx South here is the Brighton Royal Pavilion. The pier is Asobo, the Thames barrier is either Orbx London City airport or London landmarks pack, the cranes I think are replicated by Seafront Simulations, although I think they go as far north as the river Medway, so if on the Thames then that will be Orbx.
Not sure what the bridge is but it looks decently modelled.
A few from Plymouth. Itās not as terrible as I was expecting but would love a fix from one side or the other! Apart from the mismatch, the heights between PG and models is quite different.
2 Seatons lighthouse tower
THREE lighthouses here lol
Weird wake
Stadium (Home Park) height but doesnāt look too bad
Bridges
And one of Dartmouth Castle, which also looks wrong somehow but I didnāt think I had anything for this to be a custom model already! Weird.
If anyone from Orbx is listening here: We really do need a file of just the POIās in this pack. Not necessarily all the masts and smaller things like that but at least the interesting things so we can actually go and see them. Same for Central and North would be dandy too please! I still didnāt really manage to see much in those 
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No i donāt have i love vfr enabled. I do have it, but not enabled. I dont have seafront anything installed. I do have gaist, and orbx london city pack.(not the EGLC which is uk2000)
Anyone sea any sea anomalies. I saw a few black missing sea texture triangles/polygons just east of brighton. Not sure what was going on.
I agree.
They used to be my āgo toā addon site alongside Just Flight.
Note that I said āused to beā. I no longer buy from there and havenāt made a purchase from them for well over a year.
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I noticed that ocean glitch in your first photo, I get glitches like that in the sim fairly often, so probably nothing to do with the Orbx addon.
I did just have a quick fly around Portsmouth to take some pictures, but unfortunately the sim CTD after a few minutes. Not the fault of the Orbx update, Iāve been plagued with these ever since SU12 back at the start of the year and even a complete Windows reformat didnāt fix it.
That really doesnāt help my mood, and in fairness should be factored in if I sound overly negative about Orbx. My sim crashes around 60 percent of the time on the menu airport selection screen, and has for months and months, which has really soiled my experience with this sim.
I have a 13900K, 4090 PC a VR set up and all the flight peripherals, and was about to buy a motion platform before the sim started playing up and now I can barely fly at all. Just hoping MSFS 2024 finally fixes this issue for me.
Anyway, back on topic, hereās a screenshot of HMS Victory. You can see Orbx version jutting out of Seafront Simulations.
I hope conflicts like this can be sorted. If that happens, and we get a POI list soon, I will probably cheer up a bit, and enjoy flying, if the sim allows me and doesnāt CTD every timeā¦
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These are really great pics. When I flew over Dartmouth castle it was just autogen but yours looks really good! That is what it looks like from the air pretty much, its two sites with a graveyard in between I think.
If Rich from RealVFR is able to remove the offending parts from his sceneries, Iāll buy him the addon if he doesnāt have it, that would make me much happier.
I think you said before youāre from Plymouth? Iām from Torquay so Plymouth, Exeter and places like Dartmouth are really important to me in this sim so if we can get those fixed up Iāll be much happier.
Iām actually really pleased to see Dartmouth castle looking so good, that has lifted my mood considerably!
EDIT, I donāt mean to be a pain, but if you get a chance to fly around Devon and Cornwall can you test if the major masts are there without We Love VFR installed? Specifically Princetown mast on Dartmoor, the two masts on Marldon Hill in Paignton and I think its called Carodan Hill mast in Cornwall.
If Orbx models them I will probably uninstall We Love VFR when flying in the UK, as they are the only masts I know so any others being missing wonāt matter to me.
I might remove Mamutās Marinas as well. Iād love to remove as much as possible to see if I can fix my CTD problem.
It doesnāt crash if my community folder is empty, but I donāt know what add on or addons is causing the problem, and Iāve been testing for months.
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OT for this thread. Not sure what drivers you are using I had to switch back to 537.x as the 545/546.x ones gave me ctds. 537.xx drivers were great for me. (5950/3090). Id also recommend running a windows file checker on your system and switching off any OC. Usually fixes some ctds for me. Not many ctds for me over several months use until 545/546.xx drivers came out. Other people seem to be fine with them though. 
I have to use upto date drivers unfornutately as I do more than just MSFS. Iām planning on getting Alan Wake 2 next week so need the latest drivers for that.
Believe me though, Iāve gone through every test you can think even getting ChatGPT to explain every error code to me and trying to implement its suggestions.
It was the update that changed how the terrain works, came out several months ago. If you have too many airports in a certain size location it bugs out a bit, gives you burn in default Asobo textures over the top of Burning Blue Design airfield textures and is very annoying, so you get like paintings of planes on the grass.
I think the same bug that causes that is the same bug that causes my constant CTDs.
My belief is I have too many airports and airfields installed around London and thatās why it causing the problem.
Also OT but, I am assuming you have got fast Fibre?
I found a new trick that REALLY does seem to have eliminated the most recent spate of CTDās for me. But I know you have been suffering this for months longer so doubt itās the same thing. But really, it could be worth a try - you donāt have much to lose.
Go into Device Manager > Network Card > Advanced tab > Speed & Duplex. Set it to 100Mbit Half Duplex. Click OK.
Re testing without WeLoveVFR - will do some checks over weekend and let you know mate!
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Thatās a fix Iāve not tried, Iāll certainly give it a go. Iām on TalkTalk fiber 500 mb/s.
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For FS, if you are not using it already Add On Linker is fantastic. I mainly fly airliners so generally have all the 3rd party big airports around Europe as a preset with most of the VFR type stuff disabled. You can also just choose a tiny subset of add ons etc for what you will be using for one flight.
Itās a valuable debug tool for when you have a lot of scenery mods especially if you are getting CTDās.
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I guess if it stops the sim from crashing itās worth it, but you would never normally want to set half duplex, nor restrict the speed like that, it severely constrains the network bandwidth. If the only networking you are doing is to the internet and you donāt have a fibre connection it might not be too noticeable.
Dudeā¦ that much is obvious. But this is NOT a normal situation.
I canāt believe you have not seen the topic about this (CTDās due to Bing Data) with the amount of topics you read on this forum?
The point here is that these CTDās are triggered by HAVING a fast Fibre connection. So your statement here is backwards for this case.
All I am saying is itās worth a try with the predicament and issues @Kjaye767 has been having. I still think it probably wonāt help them as this is a newer issue for me (4 to 6 weeks?) but with this game you never know. Maybe they were affected earlier for essentially the same problem behind the scenes.
You can always set it back to āAuto Negotiationā if you need the speed back for any reason WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN THE SIM. But if this solves it (which so far for me, it does after about 20h testing) it is a trade-off I am willing to make, to make the game stable and usable.
At the end of the day 100Mbit download is still plenty fast enough for most things, but yes of course it slows down the potential of your system in downloading stuff at the same time (and uploading) a bit.
At some point I hope Asobo sorts it out so I can set it back to full and not have to do this workaround, but for now, I am keeping it.
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I havenāt seen that topic, or at least havenāt read it, probably because Iāve not experienced these crashes thankfully! Perhaps Iāll go take a look to see what Iām missing out on.
Starts getting juicy around half way through. The problem is deeper than the topic title suggests.
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I do really need to take the time to set this up. It could help a lot I think if I could only run the add ons in the region Iām flying an any session.
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My offer is still open 
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Game? You actually said āgameā?
Absolute heresy man. You should be ashamed of yourself 
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