The last few flights I have done I have experienced very blurry airport textures when landing.  The flight is perfectly fine until I approach the airport.  This happened into FlyTampa KLAS today and KATL (3rd party) the other day.  Both flights were on vatsim with lots of traffic and AIG so I think that might have caused it.  It was so bad you could barely make out the runway and couldn't see any of the numbers, signs, etc.  As soon as I got off the runway, it popped into perfect textures and resolution.  What could be the cause of this, too much traffic?

Texture Res - High

Anistropic - 16c

Supersampling - 8x8

Texture synthesis - Ultra

It looks like your pc is not able to handle your settings when approaching the airport.

Dial some settings back like terrain and buildings.

If you do not have a topend graphics card you better dial back those settings too.

Once everything looks not blurry at approach you can try with higher settings, one at the time…

Just now, GSalden said:

It looks like your pc is not able to handle your settings when approaching the airport.

Dial some settings back like terrain and buildings.

If you do not have a topend graphics card you better dial back those settings too.

Once everything looks not blurry at approach you can try with higher settings, one at the time…

Ok.. I'll give it a try.  The weird thing is I have used these settings for a while and only now started to experience this.

22 hours ago, Zimmerbz said:

The last few flights I have done I have experienced very blurry airport textures when landing.  The flight is perfectly fine until I approach the airport.  This happened into FlyTampa KLAS today and KATL (3rd party) the other day.  Both flights were on vatsim with lots of traffic and AIG so I think that might have caused it.  It was so bad you could barely make out the runway and couldn't see any of the numbers, signs, etc.  As soon as I got off the runway, it popped into perfect textures and resolution.  What could be the cause of this, too much traffic?

Texture Res - High

Anistropic - 16c

Supersampling - 8x8

Texture synthesis - Ultra

I'm afraid your hardware is a bit weak for this task.  FT's KLAS uses 11.4Gb of VRAM on my system (12Gb 3080Ti), and something like 14Gb of SysRAM, and I need to have the LODs down to 200/200 tops to maintain 30fps w/ vsync.  Here's a neat way to set this up:  put your plane down a KLAS, open Dev Mode w/ its Frame Rate on-screen-display showing, and then dial settings down, starting first with Terrain LOD, then Object LOD and observe what the MainThread is in milliseconds.  Keep dialing back, save and resume, until that value is under 20ms.  After the two LOD's play around w/ other settings.

22 hours ago, Zimmerbz said:

The weird thing is I have used these settings for a while and only now started to experience this.

Used them at FT's KLAS?  FWIW, I've found there is a real price to pay for some payware airports.  The default airports as you have witnessed are often quite good, and they are far easier on hardware in general.  How's your internet bandwidth? 

25 minutes ago, Noel said:

Used them at FT's KLAS?  FWIW, I've found there is a real price to pay for some payware airports.  The default airports as you have witnessed are often quite good, and they are far easier on hardware in general.  How's your internet bandwidth? 

Bandwidth is very good.  I can probably change my LOD from 300 to 200 or less and see if that helps.  Like I said before, this is only starting to happen as of this last week and a half or so and I have flown into FTs KLAS and Imaginesim KATL before without having that happen at my current settings.  The only difference is lately I have been using AIG and flying on VATSIM.  Is it possible that AIG is making my system do that?

Yes for sure the performance cost for what AIG is bringing is going to be measurable.  I don't use it, but I do use Simple Traffic and it has some impact on the MainThread in particular and this I would expect to be similar for AIG.  As stated, I can't run Terrain LOD at 300 at FT KLAS, no way no how, AND maintain perfectly stutter-free fluid performance, but that is w/ the 787 HD mod which is a little harder on performance than the other two planes I use.  Go ahead and do what was suggested:  launch your plane at KLAS, open Dev Mode's OSD frame rate display and notice what the MainThread is showing when you are taxiing etc.

 

On 1/24/2022 at 1:57 PM, Noel said:

Yes for sure the performance cost for what AIG is bringing is going to be measurable.  I don't use it, but I do use Simple Traffic and it has some impact on the MainThread in particular and this I would expect to be similar for AIG.  As stated, I can't run Terrain LOD at 300 at FT KLAS, no way no how, AND maintain perfectly stutter-free fluid performance, but that is w/ the 787 HD mod which is a little harder on performance than the other two planes I use.  Go ahead and do what was suggested:  launch your plane at KLAS, open Dev Mode's OSD frame rate display and notice what the MainThread is showing when you are taxiing etc.

 

I think tuning down LOD and not using AIG helped.  But I was just curious, when I got these blurry airport textures, why are they only happening when approaching an airport, not departing?  Does it typically get worse the longer you fly or something?

everything has to load in when yoo approach, on depart it has already loaded.

2 minutes ago, wim123 said:

everything has to load in when yoo approach, on depart it has already loaded.

Makes sense.  Thanks