About 2-3 patches ago this was never an issue, I could easily use 10000 view distance without major stuttering.
Now when I try to turn my object view distance over 1500, the game starts lagging and trees start popping in-out.
Even after resetting the view distance, my game still continues to lag for sometimes up to a minute.
A demonstration of the issue:
- I increase view distance until the game gets buggy
- I reduce view distance to minimum (~500)
- Game still lags
- After a while laggging stops