Terrible LOD issues, Object popping and octagon wheels

[WreckedCarpet66]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: The object level of detail is very poor even when close up. It takes almost touching the object to get a decent LOD even on high/ultra settings with a huge cache. Cargo containers etc are completely absent until you get very close. Aircraft wheels are not even circles and ground vehicles look like a child’s drawing. The new dynamic setting feature is OFF, Frame GEN is OFF.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

Yes, Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

Everytime

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

1. Load into the sim
2. Look at the terrible Object LOD even with it set to 200 and High/Ultra settings
3. Wonder why the team you work for decided to stream everything

YOUR SETTINGS

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:
N/A

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

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version:

NVIDIA 566.14

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

NVIDIA system information report created on: 11/23/2024 12:14:37
NVIDIA app version: 11.0.1.163
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.22631
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 566.14 - Tue Nov 12, 2024
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor
RAM: 32.0 GB
Storage (4): SSD - 465.8 GB,HDD - 931.5 GB,+2 more

Graphics card
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 5888
Graphics clock: 2505 MHz
Resizable bar: No
Memory data rate: 21.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 192-bit
Memory bandwidth: 504.048 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 28623 MB
Dedicated video memory: 12282 MB GDDR6X
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 16341 MB
Video BIOS version: 95.04.3e.48.47
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen4

Ethernet Internet reporting speeds as below according to Ookla.

Download Mbps
932.69
Upload Mbps
101.51

Ping
Idle latency - 29 ms
Download Latency - 41 ms
Upload Latency - 30 ms

MEDIA

Look closely at the quality and quantity of ground clutter. Aircraft wheels and engines are also octagons 90% of the time for me.

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[Bulbozaur123]

Even worse situation on Xbox Series X. Very bad LOD transitions. Extreme levels of pop in (the trucks are disappearing when I move the camera in this scene).

[Ju1ius2416]

realy bad LOD loadins with the longitude

MSFS 2024 is Not Ready For Release

low LOD steps of the C Longitude [image]

[FlyingEd1959]

Same here have been fiddling around with my videosettings etc. Then i found out that a friend of mine noticed the same problem with vanishing and popping scenery items. Some facebook groups talk of this too. So i hope MS will notice and fix it.

[ryanbatc]

Yep a major basic issue here. Did I get the xbox S version on my PC with RTX4080 haha?

Here’s a pic showing the issue - just a tiny bit further from the aircraft and I lost antennas haha!

[Ju1ius2416]

While the user-planes bug out with a low LOD at extremely short distance

the AI/vatsim traffic plane hold up way further and i would even say in a acceptable way!?

[Eddrik84]

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• yes

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• landing gears on aircraft vanish just short distance away,

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[FlyingEd1959]

Flew from EHAM (Schiphol Amsterdam) today. Zooming in and out on EHAM causes all kind of abnormalities in the scenery even the gates start to fly every now and then. Problem only occurs in 2024 in 2020 everything works normal.

[crazyfrogface]

lol don’t get me started on the Xbox version, I’ve given up on it and moved back to FS2020 on PC

[WreckedCarpet66]

I notice it’s also really awful on buildings outwith the airport as well as terrain (while the fly tampa airport looked stunning the hotels also part of the scenery in the distance were mush at KLAS not an issue in 2020), would be nice to see these issues sorted out soon. Anyone else also think the satellite imagery is really low resolution?

[WellREDBarron]

Do you have Dynamic Settings turned on?

What is your Object Level of Detail set to?

[WreckedCarpet66]

It’s in the OP but dynamic settings off and Object LOD 100 Terrain LOD 200. But it makes no difference

[JumpyLand605315]

Flew 172 out of KSEE - great scenery, good FPS, terrain and objects just as I wanted.

Landed at KSEE - changed the weather preset from clear to high overcast. No other changes, empty community.

After the wx change I had those grey boxes running up and down the taxiway an one took off over my head. The hangers were melted and the trees were pyramids.

Quit the sim, restarted it with no changes and everything was again perfect.

How can we have such inconsistency in such a short time.

1 Gbs fiber internet, all drives are NVMe, nothing else is allowed to run on the sim system.

[WellREDBarron]

Sorry. I forgot to re-read your OP before I replied.

I would bump OLOD up to 200 if you have the headroom. It will NOT fix the issue entirely, but it will at the very least help to minimize it.

Also, you may want to play with dynamic settings as you can run your TLOD and OLOD at max settings whenever your are above your target FPS, and the PC will automatically lower the LOD settings when you are below your target. That will NOT fix your pop in issue, but it might get you 400 TLOD when you are flying over the country rather than landing at a big airport surrounded by photogrammetry. YMMV.