Water elevation issue Lake Mead

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DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

Elevation issue: Water surface is too high.

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:

Lake Mead, Arizona/Nevada

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

Empty community folder.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

All the time - scenery issue.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. Load flight around Lake Mead

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.

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

No.

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
2024

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

RTX4090

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

5800X3D, 64 GB RAM, 4K, all settings on max

MEDIA

Weird cliff/canyon surrounding water on dam-side end of Lake Mead:

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Water surface too high without cliff/canyon on upper parts of Lake Mead:

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: There’s a big elevation change near the south-west part of Lake Mead, north of Hoover dam. I think this is cause because of the photogrammetry in the area being from when the lake was at much higher water levels than the rest of the lake.

Coordinate or location of issue: Lake Mead, South-west part

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. Go to SW part of Lake Mead

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.

MEDIA

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sketched on the map;

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@SmotheryVase665 while the bug I’m reporting is in the same category I guess, the location is different. I also didn’t notice the issues the bug my topic got joined with reports, so maybe that one got fixed, and caused the one I noticed now?

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Hi @MortThe2nd
Yes, I noticed that your location is different. I merged with this bug topic so that whenever the test team tries to replicate, they are aware of - and can test for - all the water elevation issues around Lake Mead. Obviously, we don’t want a fix for one issue to cause another somewhere else along the lake or shoreline.

Since this bug topic has no feedback-logged tag, none of the issues mentioned in this topic have been reviewed by the team.