Nope, textures still load slowly for me. The quality is still unacceptable. I’m tired of this erratic behaviour.
in comparison to yesterday it is better for me, so maybe it is a server related problem like u said…
After incredible performance, yesterday. Today, the sim is a completely different experience.
I took off from KSMO and am flying north at ~1500’ just off-shore flying towards Malibu.
Looking out the starboard window the textures are horrific. I see what people are complaining about. It looks so bad, that I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it look this poorly.
The trees, the buildings they are just gross and nothing like what I saw yesterday when I recorded the incredible screenshots and video clip flying over Madrid.
This sim is impossible.
EDIT:
Is it the Widgeon causing this? There is even constant audio crackling going on, too.
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I thought you were being sarcastic but the picture indeed shows blurry mess of textures. Something wrong is going on with MS servers. There is another thread about broken live weather.
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At least the LOD bug is fixed. Server issues are annoying but we don’t have to wait months for a patch.
Try switching servers if you have issues. You can switch back after a day or so.
Well on a QLED now. Bit the bullet and jumped on the 4k HDR bandwagon. I’ve gotta say apart from the glaringly noticeable aliasing, the game looks way too overexposed in the sky. Specular highlights too bright and there’s clipping all over the place no matter how high or low I fky… the horizon I’d a white hazy mess. I cant even see the sun through the clouds. It’s way too overblown.
Is the game even running in HDR 10?
Got great results in other games but not flight simulator
turn off in game hdr it’s way overdone
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I know right? I was so frustrated last night and on the verge of considering a return. Glad it’s not just me. HDR is very bizarre in flight simulator indeed… It’s like the colours and contrast are right out of an animated movie. Way too overdone like you said and details in the sky, clouds and sun are all over thr place.
I turn it off and instantly everything looks right.
Honestly, this game is too erratic and performances change apparently for no reason. Anytime I launch it I wonder if I will be able to play it, and that’s frustrating.
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People on console are getting mixed results it seems. The only variables are add ons and servers because we are running on the same hardware. After every flight i reboot the system and reconnect to the server. If you watch the server connection speed it does spike. When i get a good connection my add ons work fine, even detailed airports. Although i am not certain people who are experiencing poor quality texturing does seem to be server related. The testers of the fix will no doubt have a great coonnection and not identify a problem. The problem is that the sim can be unenjoyable if your experiencing issues. If it is the servers it can be resolved and no doubt in Asobo’s interest to improve it. When this sim works it is great and as such when it doesnt it is quite frustrating. Hopefully it will be resolved soon and i think there is every chance that it will.
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Blurry textures and visual degradation keep coming back on my end, image quality is not consistent at all.
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Me too bud. Wildly erratic results every time I fly and performance can be borderline bad around large busy airports and cities.
The aliasing is starting to get to me too seeing how I just got a 50" QLED screen. Dunno what the heck is going on with HDR either when toggled on within the game.
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Wow! Thank you, @nikthetrip5023 ! 
The game looks much better now with HDR10 turned off! Everything was too dark before… 
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I would even recommend turning off HDR completely in the Xbox settings. In my opinion almost every game looks better in SDR, even on high end TVs.
Back to the topic. Im starting to think something detrimental is happening to Microsoft-Xbox servers (due to financial cuts?) as we have observed very erratic graphics even during beta testing, a time that theoretically should be calm traffic wise.
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Today I see a slightly better texture loading, still not ideal… Anyway, the Checking for updates screen got stuck again… No joy for me.
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Possibly, in the data settings the online functionality button keeps turning itself off and consequently disabling bing and photometry. Are xbox using seperate servers from pc?
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For multiplayer there is certainly crossplay between PC and consoles. I don’t know what’s the situation for bing imagery.
It seems PC users are now reporting a similar problem.
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/low-bandwidth-message-connection-lost-switched-offline/464121/923
Yes i think the servers are shared. If thats the case then pc simmers should see problems too. Of course a high end pc less so but not all have that luxury.
Are you seeing “melted” photogrammetry or no PG buildings at all?