Scenery issue after Dec. 22 update

After the Dec. 22 update, I have scenery problems at at least two airports (CZBA - Burlington, Ontario; and CNP3 - Arnprior, Ontario). The problem is that scenery bumps (almost small mountains) are showing up where they should not be. When you fly close to the bumps, they settle down and fade into the generally flat scenery.

 

They happen to be two airports that I fly from a lot, and are the only two that I had saved flights from, so I'm wondering if the saved flights are somehow interacting with the update. I've deleted the saved flights, but that doesn't solve the problem.

 

If anyone has a cause, or hopefully a fix, I would appreciate your help.

That sounds like a data issue. What is your internet connection speed? Also what are your computer specs? This program pumps a huge amount of data. If the data chain is bottlenecked, it creates rips in the scenery which show as transient mounds or ridges. It can be from a slow internet connection, slow memory, or a CPU or GPU bottleneck sufficient to create the distorted data stream.

I have seen this too.

Asobo seems to not have a good handle on the way they wrote the software. I am left with the impression that they have a convoluted mess on their hands.

 

This does not bode well for the future.

It's a known bug with the latest update, hopefully there'll be a hotfix after Christmas.

 

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To answer plainsman's question, I clocked internet speed at 63 mbps. The computer is a new Dell gaming computer:

 

10th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-10400F processor(6-Core, 12M Cache, 2.9GHz to 4.3GHz)

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 SUPER™ 6GB GDDR6

16GB, 2x8Gb, DDR4, 2666Mhz

128GB M.2 PCIe SSD + 1TB SATA 7200 RPM HDD 3.5"

 

If it was a general data problem, wouldn't you expect it to be a general issue with all or most airports, and not just the two that I had saved flights from?

 

And for smojimbo, I guess if it's an Asobo problem, there is no fix?

To tiger1962. Thanks. If it's a known bug, that makes me feel somewhat better.

No fix until the next update.

 

In software programs there are local variables and global variables. Asobo seems to have more than a few local global variables.

 

With every update new bugs seem to pop up.

Actually, I still think it is a data problem in spite of the known issue. You are loading the data for saved flights off a HDD as opposed to an SSD. That will be a slower data stream than your other processing and loading.

I am loading the data off an M2 SSD.

And I encounter the same effect.

Are you just seeing this on saved flights or is it a general issue?

It's at 2 airports from which I had saved flights. So, for a new flight, when I start up at either of those airports, the problem is in the vicinity of those airports.

 

I've deleted the 2 saved flights, but that hasn't solved the problem. New flights from either airport have the mounds/mountains.

I don't save flights and I see it too.

I noticed some mounds around Leeds Bradford Airport, as I flew closer they disappeared maybe three or four.

Enjoy Christmas.

I'm getting the same thing. Little mountains that go away when you get closer. I wish asobo would tell us what the internet speed they're getting is, and whether or not it's adequate.

It's nothing to do with disk drives or internet speed, here's one of the threads about it on the flightsimulator.com forums: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/after-today-update-i-get-spikes-on-terrain-and-and-mesh-problems-not-only-at-eddl/338732

Please click the blue VOTE button at the top of thread to get this issue to the top of the fixes 'to do' list at Asobo.

Edited December 24, 2020 by tiger1962

They’re near Leeds/Bradford too. Still, I can’t say I mind as I’ve just had a blast flying in VR!

I love it!!

 

Regards

Steve

Not a data issue as too many of us are getting it if you read other forums. I've noticed quite a few of these bumps in the UK especially around EGGD where I do a lot of my flying. They relate to the LOD in the new mesh and will be fixed in the next update.

Hi,

 

I have bumps and spikes everywhere since the last update.

 

Please, asobo, be more careful!

I actually did have some bad elevations near water before the last update, but it's gotten worse.