SU4 beta 1.6.11 airports black tile popping

GeeStoerty · October 1, 2025, 7:24pm

Description of the issue: SU4 beta 1.6.11 various (1st and 3rd party) airports have a new issue of “black tile popping”

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

load into LOWI airport for example and fly near the airport with C172
notice black tiles appearing and disappearing on the ground textures

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 Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? 7900XTX

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

MEDIA

matze254889272 · October 1, 2025, 9:04pm

Same here, noticed it at 2 paid airports and 1 freeware one.

The paid ones are EDDH from SimWings and the Brussels one is the Aerosoft scenery.

EnjonUK · October 1, 2025, 9:11pm

Had this happen at MM simulations Pristina today, haven’t come across it on previous builds.

edekadesgrauens · October 1, 2025, 9:42pm

Same here, happened at LSZA.

codenuts42 · October 1, 2025, 9:53pm

Same here with standard LOWI.

Chewwy94 · October 1, 2025, 11:27pm

Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.

DementedCorn327 · October 2, 2025, 12:12am

Have you disabled all your addons/mods ?
I cannot reproduce at LOWI:

SmotheryVase665 · October 2, 2025, 1:36am

I cannot repro at LOWI either:

edekadesgrauens · October 2, 2025, 7:47am

Important note:

This is not happening all the time and it can appear suddenly during flight.

I took off at LSZA and it was fine in the beginning, but when I returned the tiles were there on approach. Also the wind sock and other runway objects are flying in the air sometimes.

codenuts42 · October 2, 2025, 8:02am

I have neither installed nor activated any mods or add-ons.

The phenomenon occurred with a C172 over LOWI airport (Standard 2024, but Deluxe Premium 2020).

My specs are 4080S, 9800X3d, 64GB with 4k (DLSS Quality) and Ultra settings.

PS: Unfortunately, I can’t show any screenshots now, as I have already left the beta.

DuditheRreb · October 2, 2025, 8:07am

Same here at LOWI (Payware). Black tiles started popping immediately after I installed SU4 beta 1.6.11.

EnjonUK · October 2, 2025, 2:51pm

Same is happening here. Took the drone cam up at Pristina and there was no problem, but the black tiles appeared on takeoff.

Just had another instance taking off from JustSim LGRP in addition to the Pristina I reported earlier.

DementedCorn327 · October 2, 2025, 3:04pm

Was able to replicate at LOWI flying around, it is random, shows up then disappear:

matze254889272 · October 2, 2025, 4:44pm

Yeah, also my experience. Could be LOD related?

GeeStoerty · October 2, 2025, 5:51pm

Just did some more testing after a (another) complete new installation of the sim incl. caches etc.

Deactivated all ingame addons that could be related to airport/scenery graphics and left the community folder empty.

First flight with Hughes 500 at LOWI (c&d spawn and runway takeoff): few black tiles appeared and disappeared again shortly after. After several minutes of flying around the airport the black tiles did not appear again.
Sim restart and new spawn at LOWI with C172 in flight, different black tiles back again immediately:

Batatus7700 · October 2, 2025, 11:52pm

Happening to me in RJTT.

Edit: this happened on approach after a 7 hr flight. After reloading the sim, it was gone.

DullestRobin600 · October 3, 2025, 2:03pm

Hi, same here!

NZNR, Napier New Zealand. A lot of black tiles popping!

Greetings

Super6u0 · October 4, 2025, 1:28pm

Same issue happened to me during my flight from ZSPD to VHHH, both airports have black tiles on the grass, they disappear once my plane get close enough so I think its a LOD related problem.

DrVenkman3876 · October 4, 2025, 9:43pm

I saw this in the terrain on final approach into iniBuilds’ KLAX this afternoon, though the airport itself seemed fine.

ljkRogerking · October 5, 2025, 12:53am

After a long flight of more than 8 hours, black squares appeared on the airport ground texture. This happened twice.

vrmm airport, when I reopened the game and loaded it, a black texture appeared