I flew hours over Japan and I definitely noticed two things: ground texture/image seems to be downgraded by at least a notch. The worst thing is trees - they're only drawn in a very short distance and popping up almost right in front your eyes. That's really annoying. 

 

1 minute ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Just watching the live stream now, they've admitted they have regressed. They hope to have it all resolved in  the first major update due in November. 

Wow, I missed that part. Good to know! Can't be soon enough. 

2 hours ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

I have just spoken to a friend who has worked as a game developer for some of the biggest gaming studios over the last twenty years and after telling him about the patches and the effects on graphics he said there is only one reason why that would happen; Server bandwidth is having to be restricted at the servers due to too high demand.

interesting.  My terrain and object level of detail settings are both 150.  I have not touched LOD, now that I know where that variable is located.  This morning i completed a 2.4 hour flight from Oakland to Burbank, touring the Pacific coast along the way.  Some segments over land, other segments over the water just off the coast.  From Santa Barbara I flew across Oxnard, then Thousand Oaks, and landed at Burbank.  All of this in the default 172 (G1000).  Nowhere along the way did I see any scenery popping.  I had detail as far as I could see.  It was just slightly hazy, but not so much as to cut visibility down below likely 20 miles.  Don't think I will mess with the LOS setting.

Just not seeing it.  I have a 100 MBPS connection and Speedtest.net verifies that speed.  System specs in my signature.

12 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Just not seeing it.  I have a 100 MBPS connection and Speedtest.net verifies that speed.  System specs in my signature.

 

What Nvidia driver are you using? I reverted back to 452.06 a couple weeks ago because the 456.38 was giving me big FPS loss on various games and I'm not seeing this LOD issue. Maybe it is related to the new 456.xx drivers?

7 minutes ago, Alvega said:

What Nvidia driver are you using?

Also 452.06 here and no LOD issues.

They just announced they are looking at expanding the LOD because it is not expensive to perform on one core.... Brilliant! 

Asobo CEO just said that LOD and AA changes were not expected, could be new bugs somewhere. That's a good news, at least they're not dumbing down the sim. 

They are has straight forward and honest as I ever seen a developer.

4 hours ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

I never said any of that to begin with. And your analogy’s are rubbish, to be blunt. 
PS if you’d bothered to look, you will see plenty of screenshot examples over at the official forums. 

This is your reply anytime anyone questions you on the myriad of issues you are having. 

When you have as many issues as you do, it might be your system and not the sim, just saying.

Yes, kudos to Asobo that they're acknowledging the problem!  

It's still a shame that they're apparently sticking to a rigid bimonthly patch release schedule. This LOD issue is mainly cosmetic, but the CTD when enabling the VFR map should be a hotfix when they track down the bug.

45 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Just watching the live stream now, they've admitted they have regressed. They hope to have it all resolved in  the first major update due in November. 

That's great to hear and great to know Ian, thank you.

6 minutes ago, Cmcollazo71 said:

This is your reply anytime anyone questions you on the myriad of issues you are having. 

When you have as many issues as you do, it might be your system and not the sim, just saying.

I don't have any issues. Other than the same ones that other people have. So, I am not quite surer where you pull a 'myriad' of issues from? Care to enlighten me?

And that is always my reply is it? So, if that is the case, why have I been upvoted over 600 times? 

When you assume as you do, you make an ........ Just saying. 

 

Oh and for the record, he wasn't questioning me. 

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3 hours ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

I have just spoken to a friend who has worked as a game developer for some of the biggest gaming studios over the last twenty years and after telling him about the patches and the effects on graphics he said there is only one reason why that would happen; Server bandwidth is having to be restricted at the servers due to too high demand.

This makes the most sense of all the “explanations” thus far... and also explains the variance based on connection speeds of each user.

Just now, Cmcollazo71 said:

This makes the most sense of all the “explanations” thus far... and also explains the variance based on connection speeds of each user.

The developers have literally just advised RE the LOD in the live stream.... They are in fact increasing it, so, that theory is well and truly out the window. 

13 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

The developers have literally just advised RE the LOD in the live stream.... They are in fact increasing it, so, that theory is well and truly out the window. 

Great.  glad to hear it.  And so is the ridiculous, "intentionally done to promote xbox" theory as well.  

That's why we should all chill out on speculation.  Especially when that speculation asserts some sort of dark designs by the developer to intentionally cripple the product.  

Bandwidth limits is a reasonable explanation, but one that I admitted that I had no proof for.  I'm glad that I'm wrong.  

Edited September 30, 20205 yr by wthomas33065