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Lighting issue

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Since installing 5.3 HF1+ I have a weird lighting issue.

If move or pan around, the lights appear to just go off. Please take a look at the following screenshots:
Taxiing at DD JFK lights are on:
https://imgur.com/271n2db
Just pan a bit on view and lights are off on terminal:
https://imgur.com/BnkS3yR
Parked at terminla all lights on:
https://imgur.com/qiCkxiO
Pan a little down and all lights go off:
https://imgur.com/8sYASgn

Can anyone help with this?

Edited by BWBriscoe

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That‘s a problem with older sceneries (pre-v5) and their dynamic lighting.
One solution is to set the values for max. point lights and max (can‘t remember the other name, but right below it) lights in the prepar3d.cfg to „1000“ each. This however will also tank the performance with dynamic lights, so you don‘t want to use anything higher than SSAAx2 at night.

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I'm sorry, but that's not the issue. Look here at FlyTampa KBOS. I pan either outside or within the cockpit and the lights flash on and off. It's incredibly frustrating.
Looks dark:
https://imgur.com/oFfgwzs
Then suddenly lights are on:
https://imgur.com/JsVwCsH
Inside the cockpit lights look realistically dark:
https://imgur.com/aeK0Dcy
Pan a little to the right and it's as bright as day in the cockpit!:
https://imgur.com/2KSB19j

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are you using custom inibuilds dl profiles? If you are maybe go back to supplied DL with the addons and see if it makes a difference. If you are using the DL that installed with the addons you may have to go ask the FT or DD guys in their forums. I definitely agree that something is not right.

Edited by ywg256

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This has only happened since installing the latest patch. I'd never noticed it before.

I've also noticed it happening at SimWings EGLL too. I don't have inibuilds profiles added. I can't believe it's a problem with all three seperate developers...?

Edited by BWBriscoe

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Check at daylight, if all textures are always present when you look around. Maybe if textures go off and on, it has an effect on the lights.

I have sceneries, textures go on and off all the time even though I have enough VRAM. It seems something new in 5.3HF+, at least I didn´t notice that much in 5.2.

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Just checked at Flightbeam KPHX and I get lights as seen here:
https://imgur.com/K9f6gTR
But then I pan slightly with the camera and this happens:
https://imgur.com/ZOnXRYW

This has only started since installing 5.3HF+

It's clearly not a developer issue but a wider P3D issue.

Can anyone help?

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Wish I could. I am not having this issue anywhere that you are seeing and have the same addons you have referenced so far. When I get home from work maybe i can share my settings with you to try if you like? Let me know.

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6 hours ago, ywg256 said:

Wish I could. I am not having this issue anywhere that you are seeing and have the same addons you have referenced so far. When I get home from work maybe i can share my settings with you to try if you like? Let me know.

That would be really helpful, thanks

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Looking straight out the flight deck. No light and no rain...
https://imgur.com/Z2WBa3d
Pan to the left, lights suddenly appear as does the rain...
https://imgur.com/Xj77ojc

If anyone has any idea, would really appreciate it as it's completely ruining any immersion in the sim.

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Sent you pm. Hopefully it helps.

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Unfortunately altering settings didn't work.

Taxiing out of KBOS this morning every single light appeared to go out...
https://imgur.com/0GPoijm
https://imgur.com/cqCBlQk

Would a complete reinstall of content, scenery, client have any effect?

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32GB GeForce® RTX 5090 Graphics Card

Unfortunately I am not expert enough to really say if that could work or not. Maybe next step is to try one of the developer support forums for FT or FB and see what they think? Mir has a pretty good support board over on FB so maybe try there. That is probably what I would try if I were in your shoes.

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31 minutes ago, ywg256 said:

Unfortunately I am not expert enough to really say if that could work or not. Maybe next step is to try one of the developer support forums for FT or FB and see what they think? Mir has a pretty good support board over on FB so maybe try there. That is probably what I would try if I were in your shoes.

I've posted in the Flightbeam forum.

I don't think there's any point posting in the FlyTampa forum, they never respond to anything...

AMD Ryzen™ 9 9900X3D, AM5, Zen 5, 12 Core, 24 Threads, 4.4GHz, 5.5GHz Turbo
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