What’s happening is getting me very upset and sad. One of my favorite games I’ve ever played is very literally being ruined in front of my eyes. The quality of the visuals is arguably the most important aspect of this game because it really elevates the immersion and makes you feel like you are flying around our earth. I would much rather take a performance hit and return to the visuals to how they were previously.
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I hate to say it, and this is last resort, but honestly I’ve only been flying at dawn/dusk and night so that I can avoid seeing the ground. Sad to have to do that but you’re right, current state immersion is terrible.
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That’s understandable. Although on a night flight in New York a few days ago, large areas of the lighting weren’t drawing straight away when looking round, really frustrating. Conversely, flying some daytime flights today and had some fantastic views! 
The LOD / textures look horrible currently 
I tried different locations, w/ or w/o rolling cache. My internet connection is just fine. It must be the online services or something wrong with the latest update.
Actually I’m a little bit tired of those issues. I’ve spent quite a bunch of money on airplanes etc. - sad to fly them in those ugly looking environments. Kills the immersion big time.
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Will they (MS and Asobo) ever tell us what is going on with the LOD and texture issues?
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The sim has not become any better with these issues, and quite frankly in my opinion it is extremely terrible.
I have tried several things like switching between DLSS & TAA. I have tried with LOD 200 and LOD 400 which doesn’t change ANYTHING.
Another issue is with PG being awful quality, and the issue with LOD is even worse with PG turned on.
This first photo is the airplane on the ground. Just by looking around everything becomes very low quality like it’s not loading in. Until i move the camera around several times, and it loads in.
This photo shows with LOD 300. Look how the very next taxi line is already blurry and very low quality. So is the rest of the runway.
This photo please notice the taxilight right in front of us.
The light is visible, but we have to be literally right on top of it, to be able to see the casing the light is installed in. (Also notice how everything in front of us is already blurry at W7)
The issue with LOD is worse than ever in my opinion.
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The whole world looks like that in MSFS right now.
Sorry to hear you are having issues, but also glad more of us are in the same boat so it gets fixed quicker. I mean surely they know, but should we do a ticket or something? I’ve never done one
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After the Oceania update, in addition to all the problems above, I got a massive problem with altitude data.
Split, Croatia, and the whole area around it are completely destroyed. Where there is a hill, now is a flat plane, and where is a coast line, there are extreme cliffs.
I also see that Greek coastline has similar issues.
Did any of you guys also notice this in your coastal areas?
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Yeh I’ll try to post pics when I can. SE Asian server.
Yes frame rate takes a hit now and then especially with heavy fog and clouds
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If you go to the MGS Support Twitter account you can DM them and also it has a link to their support site. There is a page that shows how to contact support. @MFSF_Support is their Twitter handle
With that said, I do not see this issue listed on the “Known Issues” page. This should be a pretty high priority issue, but it won’t be if not many are reporting it or talking about it.
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Update: I contacted MFS Support on Twitter and directed them to this thread. They thanked me and said they would pass it along for review.
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These server choices have nothing to do with the potential graphical quality of the sim. They are multiplayer regional servers only.
See:
That said, there are different content delivery networks that will be affected by your physical region, but we end users can not select which of them to connect to.
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That’s slightly worrying . Did they not know ? I’m starting to loose faith that this will ever get sorted .
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We have been actively following this thread and reading all of your comments. This topic has the feedback-logged tag, which means we have entered it into our internal tracking system for the dev team to investigate further.
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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Thank you very much.
I have a second thread also discussing this issue: TERRIBLE LOD is destroying a potentially great sim - #168
I don’t have twitter. Would you be so kind, and send this to them as well?
Something seriously needs to be done. Even though i don’t have any hopes that the sim will ever go back to its former beauty.
Thanks for that reply. In the midst of all of these threads and comments concerning these issues, it is nice to get some form of response.
We can not wait until the next SU to have this fixed. It’s a game breaker.
(It’s like the O-ring on the challenger. - You can fly, but it’s just not worth it.)
Yes but framerate is bad overall too in photogrammetry cities Atlanta Munich…
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