Hi,

Is there a fix or work around for this issue? 

Taxiing along and everything looks fine... 

I change the view and everything looks fine... 

I go back into that cockpit and now look at the taxi line. 

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

It's another bug that has been there from the start.  Sometimes my 2020 textures look like that from the start, especially if I spawn on the runway. 

I have to move the aircraft right over them to get them to display properly.  It's a wired one where distant textures are sharp but near ones aren't - strange!

Not sure if this still happens in 2024 as I don't use it much lately.

I have never seen this, but I may have missed it, I'll check carefully next flight.

1 hour ago, Ixoye said:

I have never seen this, but I may have missed it, I'll check carefully next flight.

It seems to depend on the airport / airfield as I don't see it all of the time, but it is certainly known about and has been talked about before.
For me, I believe it is only ever taxiway lines and runway markings that seem to be effected.

When it happens, it seems like there is a radius around the aircraft of about 10-20 metres where the LOD (maybe?) doesn't develop properly, but outside of that is fine, which is the strange thing.
It could also be something to do with the Anisotropic filtering maybe rather than LOD issues.  As it also looks like that kind of effect when it is turned off, although mine is always set at 16 (maximum) anyway.

Edited April 27, 20251 yr by bobcat999

3 hours ago, Ixoye said:

I have never seen this, but I may have missed it, I'll check carefully next flight.

Me neither, never in 4.6y.

Happens to me all the time. One of those niggles in 2020, just like the dumb ai airport traffic that seems to constantly wander in one's taxi path at the oddest places.

I never leave the VC when I fly, so it does not happen to me these days. However, if you set up your aircraft at the runway threshold, save the scenario, and then load it later.....you will see those lower resolution ground textures in front of your aircraft.

23 hours ago, MikeV1 said:

Any help would be much appreciated.

I have never seen that.

you should show your graphics hardware and settings.

Ditto, in all my years of 2020 I have never seen that.

Is it only at specific airports?  

 

13 hours ago, psolk said:

Ditto, in all my years of 2020 I have never seen that.

Is it only at specific airports?  

 

Hard to categorically say but I believe it’s everywhere. Naturally, I bet there’s been a load of times when I’ve just stayed in ‘pit looking straight ahead so wouldn’t have noticed. 

I was flying from GLA to STN. Both addon airports. That said, I only tend to fly to the airports I have scenery for. 

Not a huge deal, just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a quick fix and to make sure I’m not alone. 

Thanks all,

Mike

Try enabling Anisotropic filter 16X in NVCP for Flight Simulator profile and disable Anisotropic filter in MSFS.

On 4/29/2025 at 12:31 AM, somiller said:

Try enabling Anisotropic filter 16X in NVCP for Flight Simulator profile and disable Anisotropic filter in MSFS.

Thanks for this suggestion. Unfortunately, it's still the same. 

I believe this is just another long standing 2020 bug that is unlikely to ever get fixed. In simple terms, it's the way the sim handles texture LODs. I do a fair bit of airport scenery development and I encounter this behavior a LOT when working with apron/ground textures. It's most noticeable with "painted" ground markings on runways, but it affects all textures, e.g. grass that's just a green texture blob but has no "growth". Move away from it and come back, it may or may not redraw the texture with the proper LOD.

I think most users would have encountered this bug without even realizing it. Depends on how much attention one pays. Having said that, my computer is relatively low spec, so I wonder if on a better performing machine it would resolve the errant LOD quicker.