I have an ATI X1900XTX running @ 1680x1050 with 4 x AA and 16 x AF and it seems to have alot of horsepower to spare. I would love to see an option to increase the LOD distance for all objects to eliminate popup.

I know its not as bad as in some games but this game isn't exactly pushing the limits graphically and I can't imagine it would be too hard to include as a patch etc.

If anyone knows of a way to increase it with a hack of somekind that would be cool too.

Then turn your AA up to 6.
Im running ATI x1900XTX oc'd slightly, runs 1280*1024 @ 6x AA and 16xAF for about 50 fps or so, with no stutters or lagging when full grid is ahead, Maybe use some tool or w/e to allow up to 12xAA or something, or just make sure you maxed out all the settings you can

Actually, this is something I noticed after one of the more recent (last several months) patches. I see a lot of LOD popping now, where I never used to. Scawen; I know you're trying to optimise the sim for lower end machines, but can those of us with faster rigs get an option for higher LODs?

I know nothing about coding, so I don't know how hard it is to code variable LOD popping, but I'd like to not see any popping at all, personally. My rig can most definately handle that.

+1 for customisable EVERYTHING.

If it's getting turned off by default, it has the ability to be turned on. Please give the higher end machine users (a category which I'm still shocked I fit into) control over what they see.

Although it just occurred to me that if we're nearing the start of S3's appearance overhaul, this entire discussion might be moot...