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If your rig is powerful enough, you can actually change the settings where grass is seen from like (in perspective) a 1000yds away fading in and out. Or, see waterfalls from a mile away active, not just static images. Trees have their detail from afar. But, it takes a decent rig to do this or you get seriously lag or crashes. This cannot be achieved by the setting in the options load with Skyrim, the changes have to be made within the Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini files. I have achieved some really nice scenery doing this, but in all honesty, using the settings provided is good enough for me and they are substantially better than console. A few mods are already out improving textures that are really amazing to see. When I first loaded Skyrim, and it detected my hardware, it set everything automatically at the highest possible it could (yes my rig is powerful).