Extending Load Distance

[Shorty]

Does anyone know how I can tweak my ini file in order to get things like grass and trees to load a lot farther away? If not, do you know of a mod that could do this for me? Thanks.

[ManualMakron]

This is probably what you're looking for http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/20053/?
As far as I understand, it's possible to tweak the settings in the ini beyond the set maximum limits. Hopefully someone else will clarify on that.

[Belanos]

Look for these lines in your ini file under the LOD heading:

fObjectLODMax=
fItemLODMax=
fActorLODMax=

The default value is 15, but you can double that to 30. Anything more than that will have no effect. For grass look under the Grass heading for these lines:

fGrassEndDistance=
fGrassStartFadeDistance=

The default is 7000 for the end distance, IIRC, but you can double that as well. Again, increasing it more than that will have no effect.

Once you've made the changes in the ini file, you'll need to go into your Option screen and adjust the sliders. Any other change you make to your ini file from within the game will reset the grass setting to it's default, so you'll need to adjust the value again afterwards. The other settings will stick though.

[Shorty]

Originally posted by Belanos:

Look for these lines in your ini file under the LOD heading:

fObjectLODMax=
fItemLODMax=
fActorLODMax=

The default value is 15, but you can double that to 30. Anything more than that will have no effect. For grass look under the Grass heading for these lines:

fGrassEndDistance=
fGrassStartFadeDistance=

The default is 7000 for the end distance, IIRC, but you can double that as well. Again, increasing it more than that will have no effect.

Once you've made the changes in the ini file, you'll need to go into your Option screen and adjust the sliders. Any other change you make to your ini file from within the game will reset the grass setting to it's default, so you'll need to adjust the value again afterwards. The other settings will stick though.

Thanks!

[Belanos]

Originally posted by Juandissimo Magnifico:

Thanks!

No problem. Changing those values won't make a huge difference but they will help though.

[Kongha]

That mod kills the fps however. Try oblivion reloaded and its distant draw suggestion.

[cyäegha]

Originally posted by Kongha:

That mod kills the fps however. Try oblivion reloaded and its distant draw suggestion.

in my experience, OR's distant draw management is less for improving how draw distance looks, and more for squeezing more performance from a heavy load order

the grass cell radius option, on the other hand, is pure eye candy and causes stutter in some places