Neighboring city in region view is pixelated

[Starblind9 0]

In regional view my neighboring city is pixelated. Only bridges or trains are clear.  I have searched the internet for 3 hours.  I found 1 person with the same problem, but no solution. Someone just replied with "it happens". I don't know what is wrong or why I can't find more people with the same problem.  But in a google search the auto complete text appears and has it listed, but nothing shows up in search. Here is a picture of my problem. I do have the project Orion mod installed but that is the only one and it's supporting mods. I couldn't find anyone with the same problem that had that mod either though. thank you for your help! 

[eduazy 6]

This is how the game was designed, all neighboring cities look like this, they are low res sprites to improve performance and AFAIK it can't be changed