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Question about TLOD and Scenery Popping

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I am playing around with settings. I am using Quest 3, Virtual Desktop, and the C172 G1000.

For grins I am starting TLOD at 400. But I am getting all sorts of scenery popping, even close to where I am, not off in the distance.

I certainly thought that with a TLOD of 400 I would not see that.

Thoughts?

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In my opinion a TLOD of 400 is high.  I have similar hardware.

Rhett

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2 hours ago, Mace said:

In my opinion a TLOD of 400 is high.  I have similar hardware.

Thanks but that doesn’t answer my question at all. 

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1 hour ago, Rob G said:

Thanks but that doesn’t answer my question at all. 

??  You asked for "thoughts?" and those are my initial thoughts.  I didn't think what I said was the least bit controversial or not answering your question (surprised)

Rhett

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4 hours ago, Mace said:

In my opinion a TLOD of 400 is high.  

My thoughts exactly. 

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7 hours ago, Rob G said:

I am playing around with settings. I am using Quest 3, Virtual Desktop, and the C172 G1000.

For grins I am starting TLOD at 400. But I am getting all sorts of scenery popping, even close to where I am, not off in the distance.

I certainly thought that with a TLOD of 400 I would not see that.

Thoughts?

MSFS or FS2024? Are you talking about the pop in when you rotate the view or advance forward?

They are two different scenarios:

1st case: How is the offscreen terrain precaching option set? The behavior is different in the two sims: in MSFS the Ultra setting was equal to "don't use", whereas in FS2024 even at Ultra you have trees and other objects popping in when you rotate the view.

2nd case: LOD 400 just means that the area where this pop in occurs is farther from your point of observation, but even at 5,000 ft you can easily identify the radius beyond which terrain is flat and 3D assets are not present. This is an intrinsic limitation of the engine, you will always have pop in.

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8 hours ago, Rob G said:

Thoughts

For me pop in scenery is the biggest flaw with MSFS.  After 7 years with MSFS I moved to X-Plane where you can actually see windsocks in the pattern.

I am keeping a close eye on MSFS to see when\if this situation improves.

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9 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

MSFS or FS2024? Are you talking about the pop in when you rotate the view or advance forward?

They are two different scenarios:

1st case: How is the offscreen terrain precaching option set? The behavior is different in the two sims: in MSFS the Ultra setting was equal to "don't use", whereas in FS2024 even at Ultra you have trees and other objects popping in when you rotate the view.

2nd case: LOD 400 just means that the area where this pop in occurs is farther from your point of observation, but even at 5,000 ft you can easily identify the radius beyond which terrain is flat and 3D assets are not present. This is an intrinsic limitation of the engine, you will always have pop in.

I am talking about advancing forward. I have just taken off and I am looking down and while still over the airport, planes and other things are popping in. I am only maybe 500-700 AGL.

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8 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

For me pop in scenery is the biggest flaw with MSFS.  After 7 years with MSFS I moved to X-Plane where you can actually see windsocks in the pattern.

That’s the difference between having a pilot/engineer at the helm (Austin Meyer), vs a business manager (Jorg).  I don’t understand why this is still an issue either.

Gary

 

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4 hours ago, Rob G said:

I am talking about advancing forward. I have just taken off and I am looking down and while still over the airport, planes and other things are popping in. I am only maybe 500-700 AGL.

It's pretty pointless having a TLOD of 400 at those sorts of altitude. 

Your system is simply struggling to deal with that level of detail in VR. The best way to get the most out of your settings is to start low and gradually increase things depending on performance. 

Yup, popup LoD is the main reason I quickly uninstall each time after trying a new update. They need to stop catering to console limits and give PC users FULL graphic control.

8 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

Yup, popup LoD is the main reason I quickly uninstall each time after trying a new update. They need to stop catering to console limits and give PC users FULL graphic control.

the blurry ground textures is a major turn off currently, easily noticeable when you fly in the drone at ground level and slowly gain altitude you can see the textures changing before you even get to 500ft. Someone on the official forums politely made reference to this with exact examples, but alas the thread was closed 🙄

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17 minutes ago, MarcG said:

the blurry ground textures is a major turn off currently, easily noticeable when you fly in the drone at ground level and slowly gain altitude you can see the textures changing before you even get to 500ft. Someone on the official forums politely made reference to this with exact examples, but alas the thread was closed 🙄

Well, until BS like that is sorted out, I will not be touching MSFS 2024.

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32 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Well, until BS like that is sorted out, I will not be touching MSFS 2024.

Here's my blurry ground textures...

 

On 8/29/2025 at 3:56 AM, MrBitstFlyer said:

For me pop in scenery is the biggest flaw with MSFS.  After 7 years with MSFS I moved to X-Plane where you can actually see windsocks in the pattern.

I am keeping a close eye on MSFS to see when\if this situation improves.

The scenery is so bad in X Plane, how can you tell if things are popping in or not?

 

 

 

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