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Poor quality ground textures

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It’s like looking at FS9 blurries sometime. There are massive posts over the MSFS forums about it. Doesn’t seem to be acknowledged by ASOBO. 
 

Basically, above 1000ft, the ground looks rubbish. It’s not sharp. Not in the slightest. And the runways from above look like pixelated mess. They need to increase the ZL. 
And the popping buildings and autogen, P3D solved that didn’t they? 

Are you flying the same MSFS that I am flying? 😉

Quote: "One man's rubbish is another man's treasure.."

Edited by Bert Pieke

Bert

3 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

It’s like looking at FS9 blurries sometime. There are massive posts over the MSFS forums about it. Doesn’t seem to be acknowledged by ASOBO. 
 

Basically, above 1000ft, the ground looks rubbish. It’s not sharp. Not in the slightest. And the runways from above look like pixelated mess. They need to increase the ZL. 
And the popping buildings and autogen, P3D solved that didn’t they? 

I suspect that the issues are on your end, Lan. Neither Bert (above post), nor I, nor most others are experiencing what you describe. As you allude to, are some others experiencing these things? Sure, but most are not. 

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3 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

It’s like looking at FS9 blurries sometime. There are massive posts over the MSFS forums about it. Doesn’t seem to be acknowledged by ASOBO. 
 

Basically, above 1000ft, the ground looks rubbish. It’s not sharp. Not in the slightest. And the runways from above look like pixelated mess. They need to increase the ZL. 
And the popping buildings and autogen, P3D solved that didn’t they? 

One thing I've noticed, is that every time I restart FS (since patch 2), it dumb's down my previous graphics settings. They apparently no longer stick. I have to go back in and update to what I think looks good, while maintaining an acceptable frame rate.

Just now, airlinejets said:

One thing I've noticed, is that every time I restart FS (since patch 2), it dumb's down my previous graphics settings. They apparently no longer stick. I have to go back in and update to what I think looks good, while maintaining an acceptable frame rate.

I thought noticed that, but put it down to old age. Gonna take another look.

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10 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

And the popping buildings and autogen, P3D solved that didn’t they? 

No, not for me. In P3D5.1 HF2 I still see popping autogen in extended flats like the Silicon Vally as soon as I set the Autogen Draw Distance slider higher than Medium.

Just for the record, otherwise it would belong to the P3D forum.

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I believe it all depends on the photogrammy data for the particular area in question.  The better the data the better the ground textures...

Chris Camp

4 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

I thought noticed that, but put it down to old age. Gonna take another look.

No, I was mistaken. No changes to my settings.

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1 minute ago, Kilo60 said:

I believe it all depends on the photogrammy data for the particular area in question.  The better the data the better the ground textures...

It’s more the zoom level I feel. I’m probably used to ortho in XP, but, to me it’s much much clearer. MSFS ortho seems low quality in comparison. 

2 hours ago, Ron Attwood said:

I thought noticed that, but put it down to old age. Gonna take another look.

Well I can confirm the game resets my clouds to medium at startup, after I had set them at ultra during the previous flight.

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