Update 8 broke something in my terrain and Lod

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?

No

Brief description of the issue:

i toke a pause from the sim for about one month, last time i fly was in update 7, yesterday i decide to come back for a ride and i update the sim with le latest one sim update 8
Since the first fly i noticed some error in the terrain texture, with blurry one also at low feet, lots of stripes also in zone with good bing data map.
The problem start to spawn a few km from the airplane, in fact, the texture and terrain immediatly near the plane are good and work as always, but the distant one seems to have some problem to load, spawning a flat low resolution texture where before (in update 7) works perfect, showing me better texture and visual from both near and far from the airplane. Now it doesent (comparison pic after)
Ive make no change in the graphics settings, also tried both with community folder and without.
i try to improve the slider to 400 but this make some buildings and tree to spawm more far, but not effect at all the terrain data or texture resolution.
Sim always work great before the update, i just remember i didnt change anything in my pc or settings.
ive make some test to ensure my windows system is ok, my ssd also dont show any problems, my bandwith and isp work as always.
i have already try to reinstall the sim (cleaning the cache before)

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:
heres an example, you can see the field under the plane is goos as is should be, just a few km away it start to become blurry, flurry and with low resolution texture

same issue here, u can see the hiils in the near are maded good, but the “city” (of Turin, italy) behind the hiils are completely missing, just a flat texture

Now there a couple of similar pic from sim 7 and 8 as comparison:

This is always Turin as it be on my sim on update 7

This is the same spot but in sim update 8, u can see the far part of the city miss lot of detail.

Another pic from UPDATE 7, showing a little town with hills near and a flat areas open hup untill the mountains

Here same spot from UPDATE 8, now the town and the hills are still good, but the flat areas completely miss some level of detail there was in update 7

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

i always have this problem in every part of the world

PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:

ryzen 5 2600x
gtx 1660super
32gb ram
game on m2

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

sim update 8, 1.23.12

Did you check to make sure MSFS didn’t change any of your settings, that has been known to happen.
As well, are your graphics card drivers up to date?

yes! ive checked many time and i also try to change it to lowest or higher value but thers not difference in the terrain texture loading radius
and gpu has the last one driver available.

ive also tried to increase the lod but this change trees and building but not the loading of the terrain data and texture

Hello, i just install the sim update 8 and i start to notice lot of problem with terrain texture and roads, now the sim seems to load only the terrain and the road as soon as i get really really near and the comparison with sim update 7 is really bad, looks like the update “cut” in half the render visual of terrain mesh and road, also in place with good bing data.

i have some pic to show you:

in this one the effect is really marked: you can see the terrain immediatly under the plane is good as is should be but the rest of the terrain is a flatted and low res green scale texture.
Was not like this in update7.

this is a little pic to better see whats wrong, this one is from SIM UPDATE 7.
You can see the field details in the texture, and u can see the paved road on the right
Cattura.PNG

now the same image, in the same spot, just with a bit different light: this is from SIM UPDATE 8
U can see theres no details in the fields, and also the paved road become a dirt one with no paved at all, and also the overall field in the background are really more blurry than the other pic from su7
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i dont change nothing in my sim or pc, ive also tried all the troubleshoting founded on google like remove community, delete the cache, also reinstall the game, reset the graphics options, increase the lod radius etc, but nothing help with this kind of problem.
Gpu driver is the last one.
in sim update 7 and before i never ever see this problem.

I really dont know what to try to have my sim back

PS this couple of pic is taken BEFORE sim update8, u can see the sim work as should be in my configuration


pc spec
ryzen 5 2600x
gtx1660super
32gb ram
game on m2

Hi, something like this happened to me recently. I believe I checked my cfg file. Make sure your LOD’s didn’t change and try to make sure sharpen is on 1. It had to do with the config file. I hope this helps a little.
Take care,
Mark.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/blurry-land-textures-are-back/505060/17

Ground textures quality is affected by numerous settings like terrain LOD , anisotropic filtering, supersampling, etc.

is all on Ultra, I dont have that blurry 2 days ago…

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that’s too bad…

Maybe online service with bing map not working correctly?

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That seems very plausible.

Yep I have noticed this as well.

Yes… blurry textures for me today too. I was flying the Hawk out of RAF Valley, Intent on going round the Mach loop. Before I got there, the scenery was blurry and I started to see a treeless landscape as well. This reminded me of FSX where scenery did not load fast enough. Never had this in my entire MSFS experience since product launch. Today was an unexpected first for this platform, and very disappointing.

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I swear this sim has moods. Good days, and bad.

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Happened again (twice) tonight. YUCK. I did not finish my flight, immersion killed, exit MSFS in frustration. Those textures under the aircraft have always been pin sharp until now

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it still today, something must happen with the server.

Also reloading a flight and it freeze on loading screen

Not so much people got this problem?

I have come here in frustration with my Xbox series X and the ground textures it is now giving me. All tv settings are set properly, I have changed NO settings with the data. My internet is running at around 56mbps as we speak. Yet the textures everywhere I fly are shocking. New to the sim 6 weeks ago, I had a month of incredible flying with views and graphics, but last 2 weeks I’ve not been able to play due to this problem. Sorry for the rant, flight sim was my escape and now I end up turning it off in frustration after 5 mins of hoping it has improved. Is there anything I could be missing?

i never seen it sofar, but servers can have issues. certainly nowadays.
my ping is always nice low, around 12 ms, i have pretty lowspeed net 75 mbit/s still
nada issues with rendering, photogrammetry on.