Effective band-aid until the issue is fixed. Thanks for sharing.Fataal has advised to go into the console and type:
gfx dt
This will toggle Distant Terrain On or Off. Feedback so far is that it helps heaps.
Being a toggle, simply go into console again (F1) and type the same command again to turn DT back on again whenever you wish.
It's the textures on "Half" that's giving you that good boost. You should be able to run the trees on "High" - game will look a lot better and it will likely do very little the performance on that card.I just tested on my old comp ( 16GB RAM, gtx 970, intel xeon E3.1231 3,50 ghz ).
Resolution 1920x1080, Textures half, water on high, LOD 50, AA on, trees medium!, ... Playing at steady 50-70 FPS. Play with your settings or just lower resolution to 1366x768 and you should see a big improvement.
Could be, I just tested on old machine to see if there really is such a problem with FPS as so many forum posts are saying. Though I might help out to someone sharing specs and settings.It's the textures on "Half" that's giving you that good boost. You should be able to run the trees on "High" - game will look a lot better and it will likely do very little the performance on that card.