Distant LOD *LOWER* than default res?

[yunage]

I'm playing Oblivion on an older machine and I've recently found a cool mod that drapes the entire LOD in fog, so you can safely turn of distant trees and such without losing perspective of the world around you. (http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/25052/?)

 

It got me thinking. Even though I can't see it now there's still an actual distant LOD at work, eating texture memory. Are there any distant LODs available that are lower than the default resolution?

 

I think the default texture size is 512x512 or 256x256, taking up something like 600 kilobytes. Since I'm not seeing ANY of it, it might as well be 1 kilobyte. Does something like that exist?

Edited October 3, 2013 by yunage

[TheRomans]

This mod, Optimized distant land Max,

http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/15278/?

has everything you need.

one download either in Scripted OMOD or manual archive to to reduce distant lod land meshes by your choice of 50% or 75%, and another to half the size of distant land textures, or distant land normal maps textures, or both.

 

Note that the UOP also optimizes or modifies about 1/4 of the same meshes and few of the textures, so if you also have the UOP, you decide which takes precedence on the file that conflict.