I am reporting a severe texture and asset streaming/rendering issue on Xbox Series X that has been present since the release of DayZ 1.29.

The issue is particularly noticeable when entering towns and cities, approaching large buildings, turning the camera quickly, or moving through areas with a high number of structures and objects.

Buildings, windows, walls, trees, bushes and other environmental assets can remain at extremely low-detail LODs or appear to be missing for several seconds before their proper textures/models load.

In some situations, entire buildings or parts of buildings can appear to be invisible or extremely low quality at relatively short distances.

The problem is not simply normal texture pop-in. The delay can be long enough to directly affect gameplay.

Gameplay impact

This creates a serious competitive/gameplay problem on Xbox Series X.

For example, when approaching an apartment building or large town, an opponent inside or behind a building can potentially be visible to them before the building and its textures have properly rendered for the player.

Windows can also take several seconds to become properly rendered, making it difficult to determine whether a player is inside a building.

This can result in:

• Players or buildings becoming visible only after several seconds.

• Extremely low-resolution/“Play-Doh” looking textures at short distances.

• Buildings or environmental objects temporarily appearing invisible.

• Windows and interiors taking a long time to render.

• Severe LOD transitions when turning the camera.

• Short freezes/stutters while assets appear to be loading.

• The problem becoming particularly severe in large towns/cities.

• A significant disadvantage during PvP because an enemy may already be able to see the player while the player's environment has not finished rendering.

The issue can be reproduced relatively easily:

1. Use an Xbox Series X.

2. Launch DayZ.

3. Join an Official or Community server.

4. Travel to a large town/city with many buildings.

5. Move quickly through the town or turn the camera toward previously unloaded buildings.

6. Observe buildings, windows, trees and other environmental assets.

7. Move away and turn around, then look toward the same area again.

8. Observe the delayed loading of textures/models and LOD transitions.

The problem becomes especially noticeable when moving quickly through a dense urban area or when rapidly changing the camera direction.

This appears to be primarily a rendering/asset-streaming/LOD problem rather than an internet connection problem.

The issue occurs while simply moving through the environment and looking at buildings and other objects.

It would be useful for the development team to investigate:

• Texture/LOD streaming distance.

• Asset loading prioritization.

• Building and interior asset streaming.

• Memory/streaming pressure in dense urban areas.

• Possible stalls when loading environmental assets.

• Differences between Xbox Series X and Xbox One rendering pipelines.

• Whether the issue is affected by server type or server performance.

I have previously reported this problem in T198491, which was confirmed internally and had several related Xbox rendering reports merged into it. Since the old Feedback Tracker is now read-only, I am creating this report to provide updated information from the current 1.29 Stable and 1.30 Experimental versions.

I can provide screen recordings showing the exact rendering delays and locations where the issue can be reproduced.