Could a little tickbox be added next to the draw distance slider that overrode the slider and set it to 20000?
(Perhaps just with a little infinity symbol next to it)
My computer is pretty old and the tracks are getting bigger all the time, have been using the distance and detail settings a fair bit recently...
...and like them. They work well. :)
...but on the other hand there are a lot of tracks that I know my system can display in full, and folk with quicker machines would get away with even more.
Plus I like making 3D landscapes for track backgrounds. Have done 4 so far and they're working out at about 40-50k polys with 2-4 images @ 2048 square, so nothing drastic - about the same as a bike.
...but it means manually changing the draw distance in the .ini to view them - then totaly avoiding the settings button for the whole session or the slider setting will take over again. :(
+1. I used to manually set the draw distance at 100000 anyway.
In-game option much welcome.
+1