Is there a way to prevent LOD pop in?

[_MaZ_TeR_]

I tried to google about this and found a lot of posts talking about the original Skyrim dating back to almost 10 years ago and some others saying how OP was used to potato resolution and as a result hadn't paid attention to pop ins. Well, I've had large chunks of cliff sides or some structures obviously change LODs only a mere 100 meters or less right in front of me, which I doubt really should happen. Is there a mod or some way to make it so that they maybe could update farther away?

[HazakTheMad]

Probably your view distance is to blame, or you just notice it quicker than normal.

[jss1138]

I can't stand pop-ins!

But I get the feeling it's not completely solvable with Skyrim.

[HazakTheMad]

DyneDOLOD or however it is spelled would make your LODs look great, and pull out your hair
trying to figure it out.

[jss1138]

That does help, but it doesn't eliminate them entirely.

[_MaZ_TeR_]

Originally posted by HazakTheMad:

Probably your view distance is to blame, or you just notice it quicker than normal.

I've installed the BethINI tool and cranked up the LOD distance options some amount from default, so if it is like this now, then what's it like by default?

[_MaZ_TeR_]

Originally posted by HazakTheMad:

DyneDOLOD or however it is spelled would make your LODs look great, and pull out your hair
trying to figure it out.

It seems that it just creates new stuff, but doesn't resolve the pop in. How this could be fixed is just making it that Skyrim loads new LODs farther away, not right in my face.

[smr1957]

There is really no way to avoid the pop-in issue, as Skyrim can only render cells so far out and no further - after that the LOD textures take over.

[_MaZ_TeR_]

Originally posted by smr1957:

There is really no way to avoid the pop-in issue, as Skyrim can only render cells so far out and no further - after that the LOD textures take over.

Damn

[bLaCkShAd0w]

You can push the distance out further to make it less noticeable if not already playing on ultra. You could also edit ini setting to go beyond ultra distance for LOD switch, risky and has been stated to be buggy in DynDOLOD documentation.

Or generate beter LOD's.

As stated no real fix though just ways to make it less noticeable.