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Scenery Quality question

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I have a question regarding scenery and settings.  I've noticed that when flying into large cities such as Chicago, New York, San Fran, LA, etc, my photogrammetric scenery only looks good when looking down.  When looking into the distance, it looks flat, washed out and triangular.  The scenery then loads as I get closer.  My question is, do I have a setting too high or not enough that is causing this?  To give a little more context, my specs are in my sig and I think I have a pretty high end system.  I am flying the Fenix which i know can be a bit more taxing on my system.  I have always gotten a smooth, jitter free flight so that is good.  It is just the scenery that I feel can be lacking.   My settings are as follows:

Screen resolution: 5120x1440 (that is my native resolution on an Ultra wide)

AA - Have been on TAA but switched to DLSS Super / quality and didn't really see a difference.  On a positive, DLSS took away the shimmering i was getting but the displays are blurrier. 

AMD Sharpening - 200

Vsync, Nvidia reflex low latency on

100% refresh

HDR 10 On

DX11

Terrain LOD 150-300 (no difference for me between those.

off screen terrain pre cache - ultra

texture res - Ultra

clouds - ultra

Anisotropic filtering - off in sim / 16 x in Nvidia

Supersampling - 8x8

Texture Synthesis - Ultra

 

Not sure if any other setting is relevant but was hoping someone might be able to tell me where my bottleneck is and what i can do to fix it.  Again, i get smooth flight with this, but it is just the scenery that seems to be problematic.   Thanks! 

 

Intel Core i7 12700K (5.0GHz Max Boost Clock) 12-Core CPU   32GB G.Skill Performance DDR4 SDRAM 3600MHz       Graphics Processor:12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GDDR6x System   2TB Western Digital, NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive

 

 

 

 

Terrain LOD would be the only setting that influences it, but 300 is more than high enough. You're likely limited by the MSFS servers (or your own internet connection). There's nothing you can do, Photogrammetry does looking horrible when zooming in a from a distance, there's nothing you can do.

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20 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Terrain LOD would be the only setting that influences it, but 300 is more than high enough. You're likely limited by the MSFS servers (or your own internet connection). There's nothing you can do, Photogrammetry does looking horrible when zooming in a from a distance, there's nothing you can do.

My internet speed is very good so maybe I can try a different server.....what do I look for in picking a server?  I feel like i have seen others on youtube and it looks good in the distance.  Maybe my eyes deceive me!

Intel Core i7 12700K (5.0GHz Max Boost Clock) 12-Core CPU   32GB G.Skill Performance DDR4 SDRAM 3600MHz       Graphics Processor:12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GDDR6x System   2TB Western Digital, NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive

 

 

 

 

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