Right – this sort of goes to our idea that even if you are at low road detail, all roads should be present – the alternative is neither plausible nor particularly good for VFR. (You can say “highways only” but in practice the road types from OSM are varied enough and change enough that you can’t easily mark “navigation-critical”.)

Funny, I even forgot there is a road slider…. because I never changed it from “a lot” which seems to be the perfect setting. But thank you for considering changes here.

What I am trying to say is, the actual amount of autgen buildings is a rather aesthetical issue. Roads however are critical to VFR, and make XP10 look good even with very few autogen stuff. It’s just unool that less buildings also means less road details.

Slider is my poorly chosen word – in fact the current UI is using drop-downs.

Fred: besides being off topic, this blog is _not_ going to become a referendum on any of the many third party x-plane community pages. We are not starting posts on them, and I am going to apply the off-topic commenting policy liberally to avoid this blog turning into a factionalized he-said-she-said about other people’s forums.

There are plenty of other places to discuss this, but _not here_.

I already noticed that since some time the ground textures of buildings are drawn in low settings. This is a good idea to keep the urban look while saving frames — like it very much!

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Noticed this, too, early this morning. The org administrator is aware of it and working on the issue. It is possible the org forum was serving an ad banner that was hijacked at the ad server to distribute malware.

Laminar Research is unaffiliated with x-plane.org.

b7: no. If you can’t get perf back by tuning settings, please file a bug and be sure to include the settings you are using and the resulting fps in some kind of controlled situation.

I’m not going to get into runway lights now – it requires a longer blog post, but what you saw in x-plane 9 is completely unrelated to anything you will ever see in a real airplane.

Draw distance does affect trees. But the base distances are different, and the draw distance is a scaling factor, more or less.