Dear fellow simmers!

I love flying. Soaring through the skies, piloting my FBW A320NX through virtual clouds, from Airport to Airport, ideally controlled by VATSIM. But in the recent weeks, my excitement took a hit by undesired behavior of the sim.

For reasons I do not know, the ground textures look afwul. Ths certainly was not the case before. It seems like MSFS does no longer use photogrammetry/satellite images to display cities, fields, rivers and forests, but rather dissapoints me by displaying offline/default landscapes. Of course I mostly fly IFR and the flying part itself is still a lot of fun, but looking out of the cockpit (or around/below the plane) leaves me in shock. What is going on? To let you know what I am talking about I created 2 albums with a couple of pictures showing the "before/good" and "after/bad" situation. All images were shot by me during the last few months, and the last few weeks have been the bad ones. I do not know what caused the change between before and after since I did not (knowingly) change anything.

My rig: MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 32 GB DDR4-3600, ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Super 8GB (Geforce driver 471.41), Game installed on SSD. Cable/LAN connection.

My MSFS graphics settings, which always have been like this. My online settings, which I also never changed. I even tried to erase the local rolling cache and update it, but that did not help in any way!

Remark: When I start Xbox Network settings from the start menu, it always lets me know that "Teredo is unable to qualify", but when I click on "check again" it always returns "open" and "connected". In any case, neither do I know what Teredo is and if it play a role in all of this, nor do I know if there is a difference now to what was going on before since I never looked into this.

Is there a way to force the sim to "show" me if data is being downloaded or if satellite images are being shown? I would like to see what is going on exactly.

TL;DR: Since a few weeks, MSFS only displays the generic/default/offline ground textures and not the photogrammetry/satellite images, although I did not change the settings or alter my internet connection.Can you help me to get the sim to look like it did before? That would be greatly appreciated and I am really thankful for any advice!

 

Your fellow pilot

Nuke

Edited July 24, 20214 yr by nuke74

My textures look the same as they did, pretty sharp IMO.  Not sure what's causing your issue.

2 hours ago, nuke74 said:

it always lets me know that "Teredo is unable to qualify", but when I click on "check again" it always returns "open" and "connected". In any case, neither do I know what Teredo is

Have you tried signing out of xBox and the Microsoft sites and signing back in?  Teredo just seems to me to be a cryptic assigned username of some kind.

Teredo is a MS networking protocol. Try logging out of xbox app and restarting

Will try to sign out of Xbox/MS and then back in, will also monitor the download rate on the resource monitor during the next flight. Thanks for your replies!

16 hours ago, nuke74 said:

Dear fellow simmers!

I love flying. Soaring through the skies, piloting my FBW A320NX through virtual clouds, from Airport to Airport, ideally controlled by VATSIM. But in the recent weeks, my excitement took a hit by undesired behavior of the sim.

For reasons I do not know, the ground textures look afwul. Ths certainly was not the case before. It seems like MSFS does no longer use photogrammetry/satellite images to display cities, fields, rivers and forests, but rather dissapoints me by displaying offline/default landscapes. Of course I mostly fly IFR and the flying part itself is still a lot of fun, but looking out of the cockpit (or around/below the plane) leaves me in shock. What is going on? To let you know what I am talking about I created 2 albums with a couple of pictures showing the "before/good" and "after/bad" situation. All images were shot by me during the last few months, and the last few weeks have been the bad ones. I do not know what caused the change between before and after since I did not (knowingly) change anything.

My rig: MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 32 GB DDR4-3600, ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Super 8GB (Geforce driver 471.41), Game installed on SSD. Cable/LAN connection.

My MSFS graphics settings, which always have been like this. My online settings, which I also never changed. I even tried to erase the local rolling cache and update it, but that did not help in any way!

Remark: When I start Xbox Network settings from the start menu, it always lets me know that "Teredo is unable to qualify", but when I click on "check again" it always returns "open" and "connected". In any case, neither do I know what Teredo is and if it play a role in all of this, nor do I know if there is a difference now to what was going on before since I never looked into this.

Is there a way to force the sim to "show" me if data is being downloaded or if satellite images are being shown? I would like to see what is going on exactly.

TL;DR: Since a few weeks, MSFS only displays the generic/default/offline ground textures and not the photogrammetry/satellite images, although I did not change the settings or alter my internet connection.Can you help me to get the sim to look like it did before? That would be greatly appreciated and I am really thankful for any advice!

 

Your fellow pilot

Nuke

 Probably not your case, but in my case after every update the scenery detail defaults by to low and I have to reset the detail to higher levels.

I think it is related to the infamous tree draw distance bug. The further north you are the worse it gets. 

Had similar issue. When I checked the server I was connected to it was a south east Asia server with a 400 something ping. Click your xbox profile circle thing at the top right of the main menu screen. I changed server from auto to East USA my ping went to 40 and my textures were back.

22 hours ago, nuke74 said:

What is going on? To let you know what I am talking about I created 2 albums with a couple of pictures showing the "before/good" and "after/bad" situation

The first set is using satellite and the second set isn't, as if your bind data world graphics setting is off.

You can clearly see this because without the satellite orthos, FS2020 rendering is resembling a lot P3D or XP11 vanilla.

This happend to me once and I found it had gone into offline mode When I reset to online it was fine