I do agree there was a marked decrease in visual fidelity from the release to now, but it was in favor of performance. This is fine, but for those looking for more fidelity, there should be an option to return the detail to what it was before.
The bug does not only concern the trees, there are also the buildings which are impacted, when I fly over Paris the landscape is ugly and it constantly twinkles and the buildings are not as well detailed as in the Alpha version and however I am in Ultra mode.
I have a lot of screenshots of the Alpha version but not sure that I am allowed to post them for comparison.
Where does the vote take place ?
we need proper viewing distances.
even X-Plane and P3D draws night lighting for example from buildings further.
It takes away quite alot from the immersion
High by accident. I normally always use ultra on every setting & flew the same route earlier. There’s barely any difference. More importantly to me the LOD draw distance & sharpness is so small on it’s highest setting that short distances look flat, low-res & slightly blurry. Nowhere near how the game was at launch & advertised. Even in photogrammetry area’s with a stable 200mb connection, it’s the LOD draw distance that’s the problem.
There is certainly a significant difference between high and ultra especially above 3000ft.I found too many buildings on high missing the higher you go.
You do not notice a huge difference between the two at very low altitudes.
Agreed was better at launch.Its bugged right now.Not sure how soon we’ll see a fix.
in general, tree textures are substantially degraded as well. why do we get nothing but loss of quality with each update released ? i’m afraid this week’s update is going to keep doing so… sim has started to be not so enjoyable.
I can’t look at this anymore! it’s too bad! all settings are ultra! the server is connected, bing cards are also connected, it does not look like at the start, and this problem is not for everyone, I watched the stream yesterday from a random person, everything is super clear, a good picture, but I have at least! reinstalled the game and windows, it did not help! the desire to play disappears
might be part of the intentional lower LOD settings forced by the latest updates. at the end of the day they look way worse now than in the initial release.
well my settings are beyond ultra, ( default ultra gives you 100 for LOD, mine is set at 200 ) then again the degradation is obvious as compared to the awesome initial release build.
Might it depend on which server hub we retrieve the online data from ? Mine is always set at West European servers… maybe we can force use North American servers, just a thought !