1 hour ago, ryanbatc said:

I wanted to come back to this. Sadly I don't have any TLOD 100 pics from 2024's initial release (but it was far more crisp and clear). But what I have here is awful. It's like FSX-era all over. This is only 6000 ft! And directly beneath my plane is the sharpest! When you look to the sides its even worse. These tiles are outside of the TIN areas (those seem to load a little sharper but the warped and melted buildings are really bad).

Sad.

Are you sure you have "dynamic settings" disabled? I only get blurry textures to this extend with that enabled, without it's fine.

My ground textures definitely do not look like that, Ryan.

14 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

My ground textures definitely do not look like that, Ryan.

Nor mine - not even close. @ryanbatc, I know we run different res screens, but that can't account for the kind of difference I see here.

Scott

1 hour ago, outermarker said:

Are you sure you have "dynamic settings" disabled? I only get blurry textures to this extend with that enabled, without it's fine.

Ya was wondering if that's the case, or if AutoFPS is involved.

I certainly haven't seen that kind of ground textures in my setup either (And I don't use 2024's dynamic lod/settings nor AutoFPS).

Edited September 30Sep 30 by lwt1971

1 hour ago, tttocs said:

Nor mine - not even close. @ryanbatc, I know we run different res screens, but that can't account for the kind of difference I see here.

Scott

You don't see that at TLOD 100? Others I talk to on discord see that. I don't use AutoFPS, it's been disabled for a while. I also don't use dynamic settings.

I wonder if it's a server setting then. Because mine used to look phenomenal but about every other SU they downgrade. Are you guys all on SU7 beta? I don't think it was this bad with SU6.

@Christopher Low @lwt1971

This is how amazing 2020 looked before they downgraded the tiles from 512 to 256. Wow! It was the pinnacle of what we had. Even with autofps and TLOD forced to 800 I've been unable to achieve this.

This is not TIN, just regular aerials/sat.

Edited September 30Sep 30 by ryanbatc

Make sure you are not running an auto fps app and set LOD to 200. Then leave it alone.

dd

8 minutes ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

Make sure you are not running an auto fps app and set LOD to 200. Then leave it alone.

dd

I'm not. I'd have to set 400 to get it looking reasonable. 200 is a blurry mess

2 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

I'm not. I'd have to set 400 to get it looking reasonable. 200 is a blurry mess

Therein exists the problem.

dd

Edited September 30Sep 30 by Sky_Pilot071

2 minutes ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

Therein exists the problem.

dd

Thanks for your wise words of wisdom

Well you figured it out. Why LOD 200 on your rig is not good is another question.

Note: the answer is not that Seb wants tp lose players.

dd

Edited September 30Sep 30 by Sky_Pilot071

My TLOD and OLOD settings are at 250/200 respectively. I do not change them at any time.

On 9/30/2026 at 7:28 PM, ryanbatc said:

Sad.

I am not sure why it looks like that. Some config must be off. Without doing anything special and hardly ever caring about settings, mine looks like this:

In principal, the transmission chain for the aerial tiles from ms cloud servers to the screen is long and many potential bottlenecks could pop up along it. But in general I don't see HUGE issues and your issue quite likely is caused by something else than "general downgrading to suit consoles".

Edited October 1Oct 1 by Inventing Spirit

21 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

You don't see that at TLOD 100? Others I talk to on discord see that. I don't use AutoFPS, it's been disabled for a while. I also don't use dynamic settings.

I wonder if it's a server setting then. Because mine used to look phenomenal but about every other SU they downgrade. Are you guys all on SU7 beta? I don't think it was this bad with SU6.

@Christopher Low @lwt1971

This is how amazing 2020 looked before they downgraded the tiles from 512 to 256. Wow! It was the pinnacle of what we had. Even with autofps and TLOD forced to 800 I've been unable to achieve this.

This is not TIN, just regular aerials/sat.

I remembered this last night and took a good look while in a low level flight.

My sim looks a LOT more like your second pic than first. 🤙

And FWIW, I do have dynamic settings enabled (whatever the in-game thing is called).

Maybe a Rolling Cache issue? Have you tried nuking that and re-enabling yet…?

Edited October 1Oct 1 by UrgentSiesta

Here are my recently updated settings that run TLOD 200 / OLOD 150 well.

AMD 5900X, 5060TI 16GB, Dynamic FG:ON, Ingame Dynamic mode: OFF, Ingame Max FPS: NONE, VSYNC: OFF, GSYNC: ON, ULTRAWIDE 3440 Resolution, Texture Resolution: ULTRA, ADDONS: HJET, Phenom and several airports. Also Bijans trees.

With these we hover between 150-170 FPS TLOD stays at 200 and MSFS stays awesome.

Also, if the TLOD never changes then your roaming cache should always be current. Just thinking that you don't want multiple TLOD objects in the cache for the same thing.

dd

Edited October 1Oct 1 by Sky_Pilot071

20 minutes ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

Here are my recently updated settings that run TLOD 200 / OLOD 150 well.

AMD 5900X, 5060TI 16GB, Dynamic FG:ON, Ingame Dynamic mode: OFF, Ingame Max FPS: NONE, VSYNC: OFF, GSYNC: ON, ULTRAWIDE 3440 Resolution, Texture Resolution: ULTRA, ADDONS: HJET, Phenom and several airports. Also Bijans trees.

With these we hover between 150-170 FPS TLOD stays at 200 and MSFS stays awesome.

dd

You’re just showing off!!! 😁🤙

Im basically a generation behind that:

5600x, 4070 12gb, 64gb RAM, & dedicated NVME’s for OS & game. And I keep my rolling cache on my X-Plane nvme just for good measure

TLOD/OLOD: same as you

FG ON, (performance)

Dynamic ON, target 40fps

2K resolution on a 30-ish inch non-gaming Samsung display (I like effects more than tiny details)

Most of my settings are HIGH rather than ULTRA.

Overall a very good experience (for me).