Traffic Airport Quality setting bug

[ab3533621]

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: Under settings, the Traffic Airport Quality Setting has 5 options, from none to ultra. The description of this setting is “Adjust the density, quality and display distance for airport traffic”. In an attempt to reduce the number of parked static aircraft at an airport, which is much too many aircraft, I explored the different settings. The off or none setting did reduce the number of parked aircraft to zero, but the other four settings had no impact on the number of parked static aircraft. There was no difference in the amount either on the low, medium, high or ultra setting. One would expect the density of aircraft to reduce when changing from high to medium or medium to low, etc. but it does not.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? - I have no community folder add-ons.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Spawn at any airport with the setting on its highest setting. Turn on the developer camera in top-down mode and zoom out so that you are looking down on an airport apron. Count the static aircraft on the apron under the ultra setting. Change the setting to high and repeat. Change the setting to medium and repeat. Change the setting to low and repeat. You will see that the amount of aircraft do not change with each reduction of the setting.

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, if relevant: - N/A

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? - Yes, camera only.

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12? - Whatever FS2024 uses.

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? - 4090

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? - N/A

MEDIA - Note in the screenshot I circled the quality description, but the “density” description is what is relevant here.

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
Even at setting Airport Traffic = Low, all parking spots are occupied by static aircraft. AI and Live traffic are OFF.

Did you experience this issue before you joined the Beta?
Yes

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:
All

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

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Always in almost all airports.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

1. Set Air Traffic to OFF (in Free Flight) and Airport Traffic to Low in Graphics.
2. Fly from or to any airport with any aircraft, and wait till objects spawn in
3. The airport is full with static aircraft.

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, if relevant:
Pimax Crystal (OG), but it happens in both 2D and 3D.

[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?
RTX4090

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
i9, 64GB

MEDIA

Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring.
Attached just and example where you can see that the airport is full with static aircraft.

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[DementedCorn327]

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:
• Air Traffic to OFF and Airport Traffic to Low

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KGCN (same as OP screenshot)

KJFK

[DarthPatzer]

Hello,

I’ve got the same issue. Planes appear in front of me on the apron and disappear behind me and most gates are occupied. So I can’t never know where the is an empty gate. Air traffic is set to LOW.

[Mustang242Sqn]

This is one of the most frustrating bugs in 2024 for me and keeps me in 2020. Not only is EVERY space occupied by default, but as soon as you leave your parking spot, a plane spontaneously appears in it, right behind you.

Absolute immersion killer. Happens with any size aircraft too.

From a short video I took, a few frames apart:

Here I am pulling out of my parking spot… (yes, through the pushback tug):

And a second later, a yellow twin has popped up in my vacant space (lower-right corner):

On landing, there’s seldom any space to park.

Only solution is to switch the traffic off completely.

Quite amazed this one isn’t classed as “bug logged” yet, unless there’s another thread for it.

[TheM00ps]

This is actually fixed in SU 3 beta, although I’ve seen no reference to it in the release notes.