Update based on information from the 11/18 Q&A livestream: The issue is caused by a bug in the frame-time measurement system. This inaccuracy meant that the sim thought it was running slower than it actually was, causing a fail-safe memory conservation system to reduce detail. The devs have already…

That’s the first time I’ve heard about PC players having this problem. Can you elaborate on that?

Over time the visuals have deteriorated A LOT. They keep removing the beauty that once was MSFS. The strange thing is, that you would think they did it to trade better performance, but both performance and visuals have gone way down. Aaaand they refuse to admit it. LOD is now way worse than before…

Its strange, this performance deterioration even on powerful PCs. If Sim Update 11 was fine on PC at release day it’s hard to understand what went wrong as the only new features (CFD airflow simulation) were added on realase day of SU11.

[image] GAD16DK: The strange thing is, that you would think they did it to trade better performance, but both performance and visuals have gone way down. Aaaand they refuse to admit it. I was very critical of both performance issues and the LOD downgrade, but it’s not true that performance sp…

After some weeks of absence due to becoming a father, I’m somehow sad that this topic has so many new entries after it seemed to be fixed in the beta. I’m hoping for the best when I get back to start the sim in the next weeks. And man, I wish I could try SU5 for once to see the supposed past beauty…

I agree with you that stability has improved significantly.

If only we could prove anything is askew in the beta forums. So far, no dice. After all kinds of testing, time and again, the sim appears to be running in beta as it should… with occasional server issues leading to occasional slow texture loading or pop in. It is a bizarre situation where like in…

It is indeed a very hard case to diagnose as the servers can be temperamental. There is another issue I think I’m seeing, relating to draw distance. It seems to me like the closer you get to the Earth’s equator, the better the draw distance gets, so nothern latitudes seem to look worse draw distance…

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