Ground-details disappaering after certain alt

[Purzel]

Hi!

I have installed AH on a Vista-64-bit machine. The Gfx-Card is a GF8800 GTS 640 MB VRAM.

I have set the ground-detail-range to maximum (3 miles I think) and the Object-detail to something below the maximum.
It works well but when I pass a certain alt I lose ALL ground-features except the textures on the ground. Trees, bushes, houses gone. That wouldn't be so bad, but the vehicles and their respective labels are also gone. Not their tracers though. The shadows of the vehicles are still visible, surprisingly, but not the vehicles themselves.
When I drop below this alt, maybe 1k AGL or something, everything is turned back on.

Any suggestions what canbe wrong with that? Planes and so on are displayed just as they should, so it not a major problem. As long as I dont want to strafe vehicles that is.

Oh, Airports are visible just as they should.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can resolve this problem? Thanks!

[hyster]

nothing is wrong it the way the game is.GV tags will disaperer around 1-1.5k. in real life u would stuggle seeing a GV at that range so its the same in the game

the reason things disapear at alt is called "leval of detail". if the game drew all objects in detail when ur at 10k alt your pc is using memory/cpu on things that can not been seen anyway, so thers no point in that as u loose detail at distance anyway in real life.

this game is set out so that people with low to mid range systems can still play.

if u want to GV's further out set your ground-detail-range to min. this only draws the ground detail when your close to them so you can see GV's further out without the ground clutter getting in the way.

[OOZ662]

Yes, but 1k does not equal 3 miles. That and I can see GVs far beyond the point where their icons disappear. Probably out to about 5K if there's no trees or clutter.

You may have changed your second detail setting. Try hitting Shift+F1 through F4 to see if they fix your problems.

[Purzel]

Thanks for your answers!

Ill try to hit Shift F1 - F4 to see if it changes anything.

The way it works now is certainly not like it should be. I can see trees quite some distance away when I'm low, and when I climb to what is less than the lateral distance I can still see trees ALL ground details disappear (Err, I mean that my distance to the ground is less than the ground-detail-viewing-distance when the details disappear). Even the vehicles themselves disappear, but their shadow remains.

I'll have to test further what can be wrong with my settings.

[Purzel]

Ahh, Shift-F1 was it. Now the tress appear and disappear like they should.
Thanks!

[fuzeman]

I would keep shift-F4 in mind though if your going to do alot of ground attack or use vehicles.
When I had ample buttonage I had both shft-F1 and Shft-f4 on a button.

[splitatom]

what i am lost what does f4 do and what does f1 with shift do

[OOZ662]

Go in the game, fly up, and hold down Shift. Then hit F4, then F3, then F2, then F1. See for yourself.