SU5 City names disappear unable to activate them again

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: Names of cities disappear from world map and when they disappear Poi cities too disappear because they are connected to the map names.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

Every time when conditions in reproduction steps are met.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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  1. Look on world map in free flight mode you can see names of cities. In map menu you can turn them on and off and it works.

  2. Go to Challenge league select any of 3 disciplines make map zoom down, or go to activities select any challenge landing, low altitude, or rally race you have to let zoom it down when starting the challenge before start, then you can go back to free flight mode.

  3. You no longer can see name of cities in free flight mode and neither you can activate it in map menu.

YOUR SETTINGS

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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?

Nvidia RTX 4070ti

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

Motherboard asus x670e, nvme 2tb, 7800x3d, 48gb ram

MEDIA

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1.st step

3rd step

I can repro in SU5 v1.7.28.0:

  1. Map in free flight - towns / city names visible, as expected:

  2. Press Esc, Selected the Challenge League, Selected Courchevel from the 3 available options, waited for the challenge to load & zoom in:

  3. Press Esc. Return to free flight. No towns / city names visible:

The same behaviour is seen in both satellite and map view.

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 AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB) Driver v32.0.23017.1001 (Adrenalin v26.1.1)
Rebar BIOS Setting On
OS Windows 11 Pro 25 H2 v26200.8457 + all OS updates.
MSFS 2024 Edition MS Store Aviator + all WUs & CUs
Current Build Version SU5 v1.7.28.0
Downloaded Core Content None (i.e., all Streamed)
Marketplace Addons (Streamed) BijanStudio Seasons Enhanced 2024 v4.0.0, MamuDesign Marinas v0.9.3, Seafront Simulations Global Shipping 24 v1.3.0, Black Square Real Taxiways 2024 v0.1.0
Community Addons (Local) None
Community 2024 Addons (Local) None
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 100
AMD FidelityFX Sharpening 200
Max Frame Rate On
Max Frame Rate Value 60
Frame Generation AMD FSR 3
Framerate Multiplier 2x (N/A)
VSync Off (N/A)
VSync Interval Monitor refresh rate (N/A)
Dynamic Settings On
Frame Rate Target 40
- -
Global Rendering Quality Custom
Terrain LOD 400
Off Screen Terrain Pre-Cache Ultra
Displacement Mapping On
Buildings High
Trees Medium
Plants High
Rocks High
Grass High
Object LOD 200
Volumetric Clouds Ultra
Texture Resolution High
Anisotropic Filtering 16x
Water Waves High
Raytraced Shadows Off
Shadow Maps 2048
Terrain Shadows 512
Contact Shadows High
Windshield Effects Medium
Ambient Occulsion High
Cubemap Reflections 256
Raymarched Reflections Medium (reduces windshield reflections)
Light Shafts Ultra
Depth of Field Ultra
Motion Blur Off
Visual Particle Effects Quality High
Glass Cockpit Refresh Rate High
Characters Quantity Low
Characters Variety Ultra
Characters Quality Medium
Airport Services Quantity Low
Airport Service Variety Ultra
Parked Aircraft Quantity Low
Parked Aircraft Variety Ultra
Aircraft Traffic Quantity Low
Aircraft Traffic Variety Ultra
Road Traffic Ultra
Sea Traffic Off
Fauna Ultra
Seatbelt Visibility On
Expand to see my other settings
Item Setting
Online Tab
Photogrammetry On
Aircraft Traffic Type AI Offline Experimental
Air Traffic in Career Off
Live Weather On
Multiplayer Off
Multiplayer Servers Automatic [West USA]
Show MP aircraft in close proximity Off
Multiplayer Replication Models High Fidelity
Rolling Cache 16GB
Bandwidth Unlimited
Flight Model Tab
Flight Model Modern
Advanced Options Tab
Developer Mode Off

Can replicate.

@Fiswiz

I confirm I have this exact bug too.

The only way is to restart FS2024, and not go in Challenge League.

FYI, from Release Notes - SU6 Beta 1.8.5.0 - July 6, 2026 :

  • Fixed an issue where city names disappeared after certain actions

Just tested and fixed for me in SU6 beta.

Issue seems to be fixed in SU6.