Between Amsterdam Schiphol and The Hague I see texture issues. Tried all Maps but I still see this with LOD set to 400 :

https://i.postimg.cc/vZxttycp/IMG-5703.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/0NpGhCGp/IMG-5704.jpg

Anyone seeing this too at the same coordinates ?

Edited August 21Aug 21 by GSalden

3 hours ago, GSalden said:

Yes, the ground textures can be shown at a higher resolution.

I only use the MSFS 2024 version.

You can choose between :

Low - Default MSFS - Mefium- High - Extreme

Thanks -- so I understand this to mean that the resolution changes can be applied to the default map, without having to use Apple, Google, or one of the Bing updates.

2 hours ago, MarcG said:

I'm not entirely sure they are higher resolution, all I see at the Extreme setting is a maintaining of the texture output as you go higher (using the drone) instead of many LOD changes as you gain altitude. I'm not convinced these are 512x512 textures again for example, that still needs to be fixed by Asobo unless it was a deliberate downgrade they decided to be silent on (wouldn't surprise me).

My suspicion is that it was a deliberate downgrade. I am also skeptical that they will ever fix it, especially for those of us still actively using 2020.

On 8/22/2026 at 1:28 AM, GSalden said:

Between Amsterdam Schiphol and The Hague I see texture issues. Tried all Maps but I still see this with LOD set to 400 :

https://i.postimg.cc/vZxttycp/IMG-5703.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/0NpGhCGp/IMG-5704.jpg

Anyone seeing this too at the same coordinates ?

This is because the satellite imagery in cities covered by photogrammetry doesn't match the color of the surrounding satellite imagery in areas without photogrammetry. This actually happens regardless of whether you use the Map Enhancement software or not.

However, Map Enhancement now has an updated “MSFS Original Map”, so you can choose to switch back to the original Microsoft map if you prefer.

Antalya is one of the places where I see this downgrade at its worst. To the west of the airport are these beautiful mountains that look like slush as they are just the right distance from the airport to be "degraded" (this even at decent LOD). So if I use this app, with the extreme setting, things should be relatively crisp, and I can still use the original MSFS map, right?

Edited August 24Aug 24 by The Flight Sim Doctor

It just looks a bit sad to me at LTAI. This is LOD 200, MSFS map, the enhancement mod with "extreme" setting enabled (and I haven't hit the 15 minute limit). Not zoomed in. To me this is P3D level of scenery, such is the degradation in texture quality. No different to the default MSFS2024, unless I'm doing something very wrong.

Edited August 24Aug 24 by The Flight Sim Doctor

20 minutes ago, The Flight Sim Doctor said:

Antalya is one of the places where I see this downgrade at its worst. To the west of the airport are these beautiful mountains that look like slush as they are just the right distance from the airport to be "degraded" (this even at decent LOD). So if I use this app, with the extreme setting, things should be relatively crisp, and I can still use the original MSFS map, right?

If you have enough bandwidth. No free lunch thing.

dd

Oh wow, bought the paid licence, massive difference and clarity. Brings the system to its knees though. A few notches above default seems a nice tradeoff.

1 hour ago, The Flight Sim Doctor said:

Oh wow, bought the paid licence, massive difference and clarity. Brings the system to its knees though. A few notches above default seems a nice tradeoff.

yeah that's why I'm not buying, the performance drop off is too much for me in VR unfortunately and without the 512x512 textures it's not worth it (free version will do for now but I don't use it all the time anyway).

Edited August 25Aug 25 by MarcG

I've turned off photogrammetry which has helped a lot. Having crisp textures globally is worth the tradeoff. I've managed to crank the res up to high on the app. Being able to use the default MSFS2024 textures now and have them sharper is a game changer. (Or back to where we should have been anyway if they didn't keep degrading everything)

Edited August 25Aug 25 by The Flight Sim Doctor

19 hours ago, The Flight Sim Doctor said:

Oh wow, bought the paid licence, massive difference and clarity. Brings the system to its knees though. A few notches above default seems a nice tradeoff.

So is the difference in the paid license? In other words, if you try the time-limited freeware version, it doesn't improve the textures, and the only way to get them is to pay for the license?

5 hours ago, Jetguy87 said:

So is the difference in the paid license? In other words, if you try the time-limited freeware version, it doesn't improve the textures, and the only way to get them is to pay for the license?

I don't think that's correct, I clearly see a difference with the 15 minute time demo adjustments.

Well i took the plunge, and I am not disappointed. What a wonderful app. And how depressing they see fit to degrade our experience over the years when this is how it could look natively. (MSFS default maps. High res within app, building mod on, LOD 150, 4K) - These shots were taken in countries that don't have particularly good textures natively in MSFS 2024.

Any compression is because of steam's screenshot degredation. Trust me it is absolutely crisp everywhere. The fact you can use native maps in this app now and just crank it up shows how dreadfully degraded this sim has become.

And here is a reminder of how it looked before (granted I am higher, but I'm in a region with the same native terrain quality in the same country)

Edited August 26Aug 26 by The Flight Sim Doctor

6 minutes ago, The Flight Sim Doctor said:

Well i took the plunge, and I am not disappointed. What a wonderful app. And how depressing they see fit to degrade our experience over the years when this is how it could look natively. (MSFS default maps. High res within app, building mod on, LOD 150, 4K) - These shots were taken in countries that don't have particularly good textures natively in MSFS 2024.

Any compression is because of steam's screenshot degredation. Trust me it is absolutely crisp everywhere. The fact you can use native maps in this app now and just crank it up shows how dreadfully degraded this sim has become.

And here is a reminder of how it looked before (granted I am higher, but I'm in a region with the same native terrain quality in the same country)

That looks very good.

If you want the less color differences, indeed go with Default Maps and set the Detail higher than Default .

If you use any other Map then use the Color Settings to make it look more like the PG Tiles

Two examples :

Well, 15 minutes is not really enough time to test anything.

So I took a region I know by heart.

Its better then default. The roads are especially better. Impressed by the roads.

All the rest is slightly better but not by much and there are all sort of weird things going on at low level.

The trees look awful

Plus the frame rate takes a huge hit of course. Doubt its very flyable from my little test.

Did not seem to matter what map I took.

Again, not much time. Very small sample. Not enough there for me to use it at present with the little info I have.

4 hours ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

Well, 15 minutes is not really enough time to test anything.

So I took a region I know by heart.

Its better then default. The roads are especially better. Impressed by the roads.

All the rest is slightly better but not by much and there are all sort of weird things going on at low level.

The trees look awful

Plus the frame rate takes a huge hit of course. Doubt its very flyable from my little test.

Did not seem to matter what map I took.

Again, not much time. Very small sample. Not enough there for me to use it at present with the little info I have.

The trees are the MSFS 2024 trees…..