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What is this called and how might I correct it

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What is it called when you are flying along and you see buildings and terrain being built as you are moving forward. It is a little distracting. I have done all the bojote tweaks and my hardware is current. My stutters are minimal at very high resolution using 3 22" screens. Performance is near perfect if I only use 1 monitor. Just seeing if I can correct this final issue. Thank you.

Intel i7-2600k @ 4.8 GHz , ASUS P8P67 Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS 1600 MHz C7, Corsair H60 CPU Cooling, Kingston Hyper X 120GB SSD Sata III (Win 7 Ultimate), 128GB Samsung 840 SSD Sata III (FSX and add ons), WD 1T 64mb Sata III (Programs and Storage), ASUS GTX 680 running 3 22" ASUS LCD Monitors in Surround, Corsair TX750w PSU, TrackIR5, ORBIX PNW and REX2, full Saitek general aviation cockpit.

 

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What is it called when you are flying along and you see buildings and terrain being built as you are moving forward.
Its called FSX and its normal. FSX doesn't have alpha fading (think thats what its called), like FS9 did to bring objects into view as you approach them. You'll get used to it and its not as noticable when you fly at higher altitudes or slow at low altitude. Its only really noticable when flying fast at only a few thousand feet agl.Too bad that wasnt incorporated into FSX as its one of the few things I miss from FS9 along with the rain and snow effects.

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You can increase the detail radius in your fsx.cfg, which will make objects "pop" in farther away and perhaps be less noticeable but that will impact performance.

Drew Sikora

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You can increase the detail radius in your fsx.cfg, which will make objects "pop" in farther away and perhaps be less noticeable but that will impact performance.
That is only going to solve terrain textures, but not buildings (autogen). Autogen popping can't be solved.

As Word Not Allowed said, the autogen radius is hard-coded in the sim (something like 14km, if memory serves). There's nothing you can do about it.

Just a little off subject, but I wonder if Prepar3D has changed or has plans to change this?Bob

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Thank you for the responses. Sounds like there is nothing for me to tweak. It is not that bad. Just an observation. Thanks again.

Intel i7-2600k @ 4.8 GHz , ASUS P8P67 Pro, 8GB Corsair XMS 1600 MHz C7, Corsair H60 CPU Cooling, Kingston Hyper X 120GB SSD Sata III (Win 7 Ultimate), 128GB Samsung 840 SSD Sata III (FSX and add ons), WD 1T 64mb Sata III (Programs and Storage), ASUS GTX 680 running 3 22" ASUS LCD Monitors in Surround, Corsair TX750w PSU, TrackIR5, ORBIX PNW and REX2, full Saitek general aviation cockpit.

 

I find it annoying, though. I thought it was due to my rather dated system, but now find out it's par for the course. I find it strange that this "alpha-fading", along with other things like rain/snow effects took a step backwards when MS was developing FSX.

Alexander Alonso

To the best of my recollection, this did also happen with FS2004.

Gerry Howard

Just a little off subject, but I wonder if Prepar3D has changed or has plans to change this?Bob
yes p3d has plan to change this:http://forum.avsim.net/topic/349679-p3d-first-impressions/page__p__2120553#entry2120553

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