...although I take no FPS performance hit with AUTO-GEN at anything above NORMAL, I kept thinking how FAKE things appear down below,lol.I just stumbled onto it. I'm using GEXnhanced, as well as Ultimate Terrain.I was taking off from Detroit Metro, and as I was travelling over the city at DENSE and VERY DENSE settings, I noticed that neighborhoods, streets, roads, etc, were disjointed....roads ending into another tile. Tiles that seem sort of randomly placed, etc.I always thought that the NORMAL level of detail seemed so lifelike, and it is. At this level of AUTO-GEN, roads align properly with adjacent tiles...for BLOCKS. Neighborhoods that have conformity...and sense...spanning out likewise for blocks to miles.Go to anything higher...and the program is cramming tiles for the sake of density. Check it out.Stay at around 2800 feet..and cruise towns, cities, countryside...and you will see...that at NORMAL, tiles are placed properly...and in conjunction with each other. Past that? Just crammed in, with no conformity to the horizon.Normal...it is! :)

...although I take no FPS performance hit with AUTO-GEN at anything above NORMAL, I kept thinking how FAKE things appear down below,lol.I just stumbled onto it. I'm using GEXnhanced, as well as Ultimate Terrain.I was taking off from Detroit Metro, and as I was travelling over the city at DENSE and VERY DENSE settings, I noticed that neighborhoods, streets, roads, etc, were disjointed....roads ending into another tile. Tiles that seem sort of randomly placed, etc.I always thought that the NORMAL level of detail seemed so lifelike, and it is. At this level of AUTO-GEN, roads align properly with adjacent tiles...for BLOCKS. Neighborhoods that have conformity...and sense...spanning out likewise for blocks to miles.Go to anything higher...and the program is cramming tiles for the sake of density. Check it out.Stay at around 2800 feet..and cruise towns, cities, countryside...and you will see...that at NORMAL, tiles are placed properly...and in conjunction with each other. Past that? Just crammed in, with no conformity to the horizon.Normal...it is! :)

Maybe it is just Detroit. Things are pretty disjointed here :(

...although I take no FPS performance hit with AUTO-GEN at anything above NORMAL, I kept thinking how FAKE things appear down below,lol.I just stumbled onto it. I'm using GEXnhanced, as well as Ultimate Terrain.I was taking off from Detroit Metro, and as I was travelling over the city at DENSE and VERY DENSE settings, I noticed that neighborhoods, streets, roads, etc, were disjointed....roads ending into another tile. Tiles that seem sort of randomly placed, etc.I always thought that the NORMAL level of detail seemed so lifelike, and it is. At this level of AUTO-GEN, roads align properly with adjacent tiles...for BLOCKS. Neighborhoods that have conformity...and sense...spanning out likewise for blocks to miles.Go to anything higher...and the program is cramming tiles for the sake of density. Check it out.Stay at around 2800 feet..and cruise towns, cities, countryside...and you will see...that at NORMAL, tiles are placed properly...and in conjunction with each other. Past that? Just crammed in, with no conformity to the horizon.Normal...it is! :)

Might have something to do with UTX or GEX, especially since GEX has custom autogen and not what MS programmed onto each tile. Your textures should stay the same no matter what the autogen setting. Bascially the way autogen is programmed is you load a tile into the autogen annotator and then place buildings or trees where you want on the tile depending on what is there graphically. Granted normal in FSX is more than maxed in FS9, but I love autogen and run at dense in most areas, I love trees!

I use DENSE. It took me a long to time to accept anything less than FULLLY Maxed EXTREMELY DENSE Auto Gen, but it killed my FPS and was impossible, even with an overclocked i7.Now I have let DENSE into my life, it's the sweet spot and FSX is so much nicer. But I must get myself GEX.The comments are right though, texture tile placement is due to landclass, not the Autogen setting.

I like dense too. The more the better! Still runs smooth and looks great.Rob

Im Dense as well. :( I can run very dense and max in a few areas but get into a spot with alot of trees.... At dense I can run EVERYWHERE and not have to change the setting while flying.

I'm on VERY DENSE... at normal there are just not enough trees.. where the forrest should be there are just a few trees.. I don't find this very realistic.

I'm on normal, but my PC is a lot slower than most of yours - I like to keep 30fps in the areas I fly

I've been trying to run Very Dense or Extremely Dense, but the system bogs down whenever ASA adds more than a few clouds. So am gravitating toward Dense, too. I'd prefer more trees but the performance hit is getting to be too much.IIRC, Nick N had suggested that the GEX guys might have a partial tree fix available soon after they release GEX Europe. If so, I'm in.Alan

GEX is a nice addon. Not quite as real as TileProxy but nice just the same (with night lighting). NORMAL AG for me.BTW REX 2.0 makes a great sky.jja