Windmill Hell

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Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?

Nope

Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons?

Irrelevant

Brief description of the issue:

TOO MANY WINDMILLS

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:

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ICAO or coordinates (DevMode > Options > Display position)

Near Airport C83 in Western US, or Lat 37.798675 Long -121.630050

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Go there, see for yourself

PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:

Irrelevant, although I’m pleasantly surprised that hundreds of windmills don’t have much of an impact on performance

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

Current version, 1.30.12.0 I think?

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:

If relevant, provide additional screenshots/video:

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Where is that? :flushed:

Is it a third party add on perhaps?

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This can and is most likely an addon conflict. Disable all of them please and reproduce.

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This can and is most likely an addon conflict. Disable all of them please and reproduce

Only addons I have are the Flyingiron Hellcat, asobo free aircraft and world updates. I have no addons to disable

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I’m in the sim right now. I’ll check to see if I can reproduce :+1:

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That’s Altamont Pass, and that’s about the right number of windmills. I think there are something like 5,000 the last time I checked. The problem in the sim is that they’re all one size (and all turning in phase), so there’s a lot of overlap, when in reality they come in a bunch of different sizes, especially on these massive farms.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

Yup!

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:

No addons. Near C83, and yep there are windmills!

If relevant, provide additional screenshots/video:

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As I said, it’s right next to airport C38 in California. I have even provided coordinates

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Oh my god that changes everything! I had no idea!
Indeed, it’s an actual real-world location with a massive amount of wind farms, though they are significantly smaller.

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In this case it’s more of a “MSFS lacks windmill variety” situation instead of a glitch in the scenery algorithm, I doubt it’ll be fixed anytime soon. Until then we have a very peculiar location to visit!

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Yep. I’d vote for a wishlist to vary the size of windmills.

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Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County California looks even worse from the pics… I’ve flown over these massive windfarms before and that got me googling, they are indeed there… it’s just that they feel kinda stacked together in Flightsim… although, it’s a mysterious Red Glowing area at night. (because of all the collision lights on top of the wind turbines.)
but, i can understand, if you’ve never seen it before, that it is quite disturbing :slight_smile:

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Also, check out Tehachapi Pass well to the south (between KTSP and KMHV) and San Gorgonio (north of KPSP) for more of the same. Definitely interesting areas to explore!

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Yeah, it’s kind of treated as one-size fits all, including the lights, which you might not have on the smaller turbines (definitely on the larger ones).

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