1 hour ago, Flic1 said:

it looked great...

Just as @Flic1 says it.

1 hour ago, Flic1 said:

Agree..I just flew into KIAH earlier this afternoon landing 26L and taxied in same area all the way around to the E terminal and it looked great....

That's interesting because when I loaded into the sim to do some comparisons from similar angles at similar elevations with similar lighting I see exactly in the sim what I see in FSDT's product pictures - and I have to say I'm not impressed. Maybe KIAH taxiways all have an ugly yellow color like the scenery, but I highly doubt it. As a matter of fact I checked out the satellite views of KIAH in Google Earth and Bing maps and neither present yellow-green taxiways. I think maybe I'm being too critical of $9 scenery and I'll leave it at that.

26 minutes ago, somiller said:

That's interesting because when I loaded into the sim to do some comparisons from similar angles at similar elevations with similar lighting I see exactly in the sim what I see in FSDT's product pictures - and I have to say I'm not impressed. Maybe KIAH taxiways all have an ugly yellow color like the scenery, but I highly doubt it. As a matter of fact I checked out the satellite views of KIAH in Google Earth and Bing maps and neither present yellow-green taxiways. I think maybe I'm being too critical of $9 scenery and I'll leave it at that.

Your first screen looks terrible, and your second looks worse. The grass is blocky, and textures are blurred.

6 hours ago, ZKOKQ said:

Your first screen looks terrible, and your second looks worse. The grass is blocky, and textures are blurred.

This is not what the scenery looks like, must be a faulty installation or server issue or some conflicting mod / addon.

1 hour ago, Fiorentoni said:

This is not what the scenery looks like, must be a faulty installation or server issue or some conflicting mod / addon.

Sorry.  I've noticed the same thing.  Very underwhelming scenery for a FSDT scenery addon.  Blurry ground textures and, scenery popping everywhere, and computer struggling to load certain areas - I was even treated for the first time to the dreaded graphics error that dumps you to the desktop.  They need to improve this thing.

17 minutes ago, DMullert said:

Sorry.  I've noticed the same thing.  Very underwhelming scenery for a FSDT scenery addon.  Blurry ground textures and, scenery popping everywhere, and computer struggling to load certain areas - I was even treated for the first time to the dreaded graphics error that dumps you to the desktop.  They need to improve this thing.

Well ground textures are indeed quite bad, not sure why. No problem with other FSDT sceneries

2 hours ago, DMullert said:

Sorry.  I've noticed the same thing.  Very underwhelming scenery for a FSDT scenery addon.  Blurry ground textures and, scenery popping everywhere, and computer struggling to load certain areas - I was even treated for the first time to the dreaded graphics error that dumps you to the desktop.  They need to improve this thing.

I noticed the performance problems while flying the pattern around KIAH, there were a few spots where I got HUGE lag spikes, as in 2 - 3 seconds of the sim completely freezing then instantly fluid performance again. There was nothing else in my community folder other than the PMDG 737's of which I was flying the 738, and no traffic. It's entirely possible there might have been server issues causing the spikes, so I'm not necessarily ready to blame KIAH, especially since other than the few lag spikes the performance was excellent.

I have to say I'm disappointed others have noticed the poor ground textures, I was really hoping it was something unique to my install that I'd be able to resolve, but an uninstall, deletion of scenery indexes, load into sim, close sim, reinstall KIAH, load into sim gave exactly what I saw on first install.

I'll add that I taxied over bumps at the taxiway bridge off of rwy 27, so there are also problems with terraforming. I really would have rather paid $15 - $20 and gotten KORD level scenery.

2 minutes ago, somiller said:

have to say I'm disappointed others have noticed the poor ground textures,

Also really disappointed to hear this. I generally fly United routes and wanted a really high quality KIAH as that airport opens up a lot of shorter routes into the Americas. I too would have paid another 15 dollars for a better quality rendition, which we likely will not get anytime soon now. 

8 minutes ago, Cognita said:

Also really disappointed to hear this. I generally fly United routes and wanted a really high quality KIAH as that airport opens up a lot of shorter routes into the Americas. I too would have paid another 15 dollars for a better quality rendition, which we likely will not get anytime soon now. 

I would argue that for the United flyer it's still probably a buy because Houston opens up LOT'S of United destinations (and the default is REALLY bad). FSDT is pretty good about updating their products so it's not unreasonable to think they might make this look better. They already added the animated tram.

Yea, I will purchase it -- I completely avoided the default version of the airport, which was terrible -- but I would have liked appropriate textures -- those pictures reminded me of P3D textures -- and proper terraforming and I would have paid more money so that a developer would invest a little more into these things. I am not so interested in interiors, but decent taxiways, come on.

Edited May 27, 20233 yr by Cognita

4 hours ago, somiller said:

I noticed the performance problems while flying the pattern around KIAH, there were a few spots where I got HUGE lag spikes, as in 2 - 3 seconds of the sim completely freezing then instantly fluid performance again. There was nothing else in my community folder other than the PMDG 737's of which I was flying the 738, and no traffic. It's entirely possible there might have been server issues causing the spikes, so I'm not necessarily ready to blame KIAH, especially since other than the few lag spikes the performance was excellent.

I have to say I'm disappointed others have noticed the poor ground textures, I was really hoping it was something unique to my install that I'd be able to resolve, but an uninstall, deletion of scenery indexes, load into sim, close sim, reinstall KIAH, load into sim gave exactly what I saw on first install.

I'll add that I taxied over bumps at the taxiway bridge off of rwy 27, so there are also problems with terraforming. I really would have rather paid $15 - $20 and gotten KORD level scenery.

In my experience these sudden and irregular legs are usually caused by nearby photogrammetry. Easily to check: Just turn off PG when you are in such a spot and see if that solves the issue. Some MSFS PG is inherently faulty in regards to performance (Philly in primis…)

4 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

In my experience these sudden and irregular legs are usually caused by nearby photogrammetry. Easily to check: Just turn off PG when you are in such a spot and see if that solves the issue. Some MSFS PG is inherently faulty in regards to performance (Philly in primis…)

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll give it a try and see if it fixes the lag spikes.

There is another thread about blurry KDFW textures and I turned off bing and PG and that fixed it. Even after turning bing and PG back on the textures did not go back to low-res.

14 minutes ago, somiller said:

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll give it a try and see if it fixes the lag spikes.

There is another thread about blurry KDFW textures and I turned off bing and PG and that fixed it. Even after turning bing and PG back on the textures did not go back to low-res.

FSDT just released an update with option to install 4K resolution textures.

I noticed an A380 parked at one of the C terminals which is wrong. Hope that gets fixed.