From what I've read, Object Quality is the setting that most affects render distance for these things. Even at high settings though the render distance isn't all that great. A console command that really helps is 'gfx lodbias n' where n is 1 to 7? maybe 9? 4 gives pretty good distance. This can really hit performance though. What I have done is set up some macros that quickly open the console, enter the command and exit. This way I can quickly adjust it in game. I have one for n=4 to increase distance, and one for n=2 which I've read is close to default high setting.
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From what I've read, Object Quality is the setting that most affects render distance for these things. Even at high settings those the render distance isn't all that great. A console command that really helps is 'gfx lodbias n' where n is 1 to 7? maybe 9? 4 gives pretty good distance. This can really hit performance though. What I have done is set up some macros that quickly open the console, enter the command and exit. This way I can quickly adjust it in game. I have one for n=4 to increase distance, and one for n=2 which I've read is close to default high setting.