since releaese of msfs there is this one thing I cant get my head around to understand. When msfs released, I had a pretty decent system with i9900kf and 2070super, however, with the use of many many 3rd-party add-ons and mods it was inevitable for me to further upgrade my system. my current system …

There was once a scale published that translated LOD setting to distance in km where things were rendered. I don’t remember where I saw that, or if it’s even valid anymore after so many updates where things are tweaked behind the scenes without documentation.

TLOD is a CPU limiter, as is OLOD, so there are two scenarios where your CPU gets limited CPU loaders being too high. CPU loaders are: TLOD, OLOD, TRAFFIC (of all types, including airport traffic and workers etc), and clouds. CPU can also become limited if your GPU isn’t working hard enough. T…

TLOD is the distance around you that the sim will spawn LODs. “LODs” are objects like runway lights and utility towers. It’s easy to see them. Just enable Dev Mode, and look in Debug LODs. Watch the LOD Instance count as you fly over the airfield. [20221122124227_1] [20221122124250_1]

[image] Mobias7: The terrain and object LOD’s are the two big CPU heavy hitters, particularly terrain. Terrain LOD is the most signficant to controlling performance. Assuming you dont have a 10 year old system, object LOD has minimal impact on performance at 200. You have to manually raise it…

Thats true but I keep an eye on my OLOD round big hand crafted airports like Heathrow where the developer has thrown in an absolute ton of objects. My 5600X certainly struggles anyway. Beefier CPU’s no doubt just eat it all up though.

I searched through the forum about some other discussions about Terrain/Object level of detail and found an interesting quote: [image] Please Fix Photogrammetry and/or LOD Lower Object level of detail means less strain on the GPU, but more strain on the CPU. The game has to create lower level de…

[image] WeirdFish2875: lowering a slider (Object level of detail in this case) does not always result in higher performance. Correct, and this becomes even less obvious for powerful systems. Most modern systems can keep object LOD at 200, otherwise you will force lower LOD resolutions to rend…

Color me stupid. I’ve gone through this whole thread and it’s not clear to me the difference between Terrain and Object. What does Terrain LOD actually change and what does Object LOD change? I understand there’s “more” at higher settings, but what is there actually more of?

Objects lod is how far from your point of view objects like aircraft, airport vehincles,gates etc are rendered.the higher the OLOD the more objects you will see in the distance. TLOD not sure though…

Having spent countless hours fiddling with the graphics settings in the sim the only thing that makes any difference to my framerate is TLOD. I just leave it on 50 now as I prefer a nice high framerate over seeing trees render in 3 miles away

What is the deal with Terrain Level of Detail (TLOD)?

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WeirdFish2875 November 24, 2022, 8:05am 10

I searched through the forum about some other discussions about Terrain/Object level of detail and found an interesting quote:

So it seems that lowering a slider (Object level of detail in this case) does not always result in higher performance.