[Xbox Series X/S] Visual Downgrade - LOD Reduction

Hi. Yes, the A320 but just as much the A319 and A321. Also 787, 747 and 777’s if i’m in for a long-haul. Very occasialy Bredok’s 737 and Virtualcol’s Embraer’s. So pretty much all airliners i have. For the A310, i wait for a patch and livery’s.

I must say, i havn’t tested my recent purchased airports with the 787 though. Fingers crossed it’s as stable as with the other aircraft.

This also happens on PC, im sure there has been a downgrade there also.

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What type of patch are you waiting for in regards to the A310? It seems to have been functioning ok for me but I’m wondering if I’m missing something.

Thanks to give us this information because , we, Xbox users feel alone with this major issue.

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2 feet from a 50" screen? A little too close for comfort aren’t we?

They’re working on a patch which should improve overall performance and quality of textures inside(although I think this is targeted towards Series S, not sure). I believe it’s a bit rough around the edges.

I wait for that, in the meantime watching as much tutorials as I can. Still have a lot to learn.

if you can do some test flights and focus on the the graphics like LOD and rendering especially above 1000-4000 ft try some mountain regions or even normal landscapes please and give a feedback ?

Terrain still looks absolutely horrendous what a downgrade in environment this update was. It makes everything they pushed MSFS to be ugly and irrelevant.

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I see I massive difference graphically on the sim since new update. Not just slightly but MUCH worse to the point it’s not enjoyable. I just can’t think for the life of me how they can be happy to take such a leap backwards. If they brought the sim out like this I.E on launch day, then there wouldn’t be such a commotion but it was running like a charm and looked outstanding even on my series S. now it resembles FS2004. It’s completely unacceptable and I won’t be using it anymore in this state.

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They couldn’t have ruined the sim surely? Gotta be still overloaded servers? Wish just someone from MSFS office can just communicate with its many users. A pathetic vague message on launch day about the servers then saying 3 days later it should be fixed. Well mine is far from fixed. Looks absolutely hideous.

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I just don’t understand why? I was still under the impression that it could be still server related (or was hoping at least) but maybe not. It ran so smooth for me before AND looked fantastic. Not now. So bad I can’t go on it again. How is this accaptable? It’s like going to have your car washed and they present it back to you covered in ■■■■. It’s shameful. I want my money back. What a con.

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tbh fs2004 looks better graphics in this update are bad

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Yes, it’s hard to play like this, when the ground is a blurry blob, numbers on landing strips are unreadable.

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New to this forum and this issue is so frustrating that I joined! Purchased a XSX just to enjoy a modern sim again. Spent countless hours on FS2004 with freeware and AI modifications, so it was a let down with MFS2020 and the unrealistic AI….but the visuals were breathtaking.

Now with SU11 it feels like I’ve regressed back into the mid 2000’s again. Holy cow what a downgrade in graphics, immediately noticed blurry runway textures, lower res landscapes. It’s so bad now between the AI and graphics, a lot of the fun is taken away for me. I read the beta reviews and cringed once it came out it hopefully wouldn’t be as noticeable to me, but it certainly was. Hope there is a quick fix cause knowing how it looked BEFORE and how it looks now is something I won’t be able to get past.

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I’m still having some fun but only when flying very low, like 600 feet max. Any higher the graphics are horrible on Series S. This is the most drastic downgrade I’ve experienced in 30 years of gaming.

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I agree. I am also playing MSFS on Xbox Series S. In SU11 I didn’t have a lot of issues but now all my ground textures look Lowres. Really terrible.

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Also not only poor low res textures it’s also slow updating. When changing views I’ve seen “tiles” of landmass popping or updating, it’s just awful. Flying the A320 over Long Island there were black boxes drawn in the distance (tile separation). Just terrible, this is not how the state of this should be on XBOX given the length of time it’s been released.

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On series S I didn’t had much issues on SU10.
But with SU11 the ground textures are extremely blurry / LowRes.
I hope they fix this issue soon. Looks terrible now.

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I am not sure if someone has looked into this formally, but it appears that the Series S downgrade may be even worse than Series X.

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Textures downgrade are just terrible… Look this screen: I’m on Xbox Series X…

Bing Data World Graphics - ON
Photogrammetry - ON

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