Ive resinstalled graphics driver, switched graphics driver (using ddu for clean install). Reinstalled the sim twice (working on #3 right now), checked my network connection, swaped out router and modem for earlier version, still nothing seems to work.
Honestly, I cranked up my config settings for LOD to 9, set as read only and didn’t see any difference in the sim. So I changed the read only back to normal and have been using the normal ultra settings since.
Hate to say it but it looks quite good to me. I’m not sure the pictures do it justice. Maybe there is an issue with the cfg file. You can post it here and we can take a look.
Just commenting as a rank amateur here - but have you tried changing the LOD settings in the Graphics menu rather than messing with a basic sim programme file i.e. the user.cfg.opt?
Personally those screenshots look,okay to me too but then I’m on a fairly mid-range rig using medium/high settings.
Yeah Ive reset the file and started from scratch, re-installed the sim and the vid drivers, like I said one day I have tree’s and bldgs as far as the eye can see, and now 20 miles and its just flat lands.
The LOD’s were set and 4 and 4 and all was well, then after the crash Im getting this. I know not the best pictures but I cleaned house last week some my archive is pretty much gone… ;p
I just installed the most recent Nvidia Driver, and now am re-installing the sim (for the 3rd time in as many days), but Im not hopeful.
The only hope Im having is that perhaps with the next update this will be fixed and for now its just some feature that they’ve added to the server, but will have to wait for the client for the new effects.
Prolog:
So after the re-install and new nvidia driver, it still looks like this, lod out to 20 miles or so no matter what its set to in the opt file. I even set it to 50 lod for both and still no difference. It simply is not reading that file anymore. ReSearched the machine Im on for a dupe usercfg.opt file, and still just one file.
So I guess I’m just gonna have to wait for tues update and see if that fixes it. In the meantime I found a old old copy of NFS:Most Wanted (from the 90’s) lol got the old wheel dusted off and have been having a blast with that. Just cant beat the classics…
I did discover that if I stay in canyons, there is no real distance and there it looks fine…
yep installed a fresh copy of the sim, started with a new usercfg.opt file. Even with letting the game choose ultra the previous LOD that was there just isnt anymore…
And if you are in sim and you look at your ui ihas anything changed there, i mean are there any changes like sliders got renamed or so think as pre caching or so, or when have you installed sdk 14.1 any thing
Maybe it all sounds crazy, but trying to help troubleshoot the problem in crazy ways in case they are busy with the sliders for lod
I set my LOD to 4.000000 in the Config file, which is the equivalent of the 400 that will be available in the slider after SU6. I’m very happy with the results. Sometimes, if my scenery doesn’t look so great, I need to check that my BING data hasn’t been turned off, or my graphics settings been dumbed down. Fortunately, I document the settings, so I can return them to what they were.
Dont have the sdk inststalled. LOD 4 is what Ive been running, and even with it set to higher the draw distance is still screwed. Heres a better picture I just took a few min ago…
I used to be able to see trees and bldg shapes all the way to the horizon, and if you look close, you can see now where the trees end, and its just the underneath grass colors etc…
I even bumped the LOD to 15 and absolutely no change what so ever, last week if I would of bumped it to 10, the sim would of looked great but I’d have like 1 FPS hehehe I know I tried it LOL…
We got that little update about an hour ago but it did nothing Im guessing it was the Airdac cycle…I dont know. I have a couple of ATI cards about equal to a 1080 so if after the update it dont improve I’ll swap one of them out and see if that makes a difference.
Of course the funny part of all this is there have been some others who have said hey yeah me too, even when I edit the usercfg.opt file nothing changes…
@BubbaBlitz7348 i cant read anywhere if you have checked your ui setting like legacy mode or data settings like bing i mean i read about you checked you network settings router etc
Yes I have checked those as well, re-installed 3 times now (that was a waste) checked all the settings everything is as it should be. Its sunday, and sunday seems to be the best performance day for the sim for me, so when I fire it up here in the next couple of min.'s we’ll see if its gone back to normal or not.
Like I said in a previous post, I think this has to do more with last weeks server crash (did you know that crash might of been related to MS squashing the biggest DDOS attack in history 1 TBPS), and seems to correspond more to that event then anything.
Even PG is great for the moment best its ever looked. So tomorow we’ll get the SU and it will all goto Hell and another 2 or 3 weeks of screwing around with it.
