
But the penalty is that you can't see objects and stations if you aren't within 15Km ( I made it the same for every map backround because I don't know what line is for what sector )

But do you really need to see all things? Every small pixel ship on the screen? Are you constantly using Video Enhancement Goggles?
Well I'm not, I can still view objects by targeting them and using monitor or by hitting F1 until I see my target because draw distance is made from the spot where my camera currently is!!

And as a plus I could raise my graphics options and still have that nice FPS increase:
1024*768*32 -> 1280*1024*32
texture quality was same -> high
shader quality was medium -> high
postprocess was off -> on
Now thanks to HighVelocitys original finding and Hectors mod files I can provide this same to you!
I edited the original game TBackgrounds.pck file from 04.dat file which can be found in the X3 folder. I used DoubleShadows X3 editor.
Here is the last line from TBackgrounds.pck file:
0;0;0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;0;0;void;1;1;1;25;50;10;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;200000000;2100000000;120;120;120;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;SS_BG_35
Now these little numbers in the line define the draw distance:
2100000000 (the bigger number is where the draw distance starts, it is at 4200 Km)
200000000 (the smaller number is where the draw distance ends, it is at 400 km)
Example about the math:
200,000,000 / 5 / 100 = 400,000 meters
400,000 / 1000 = 400 km
So I made the draw distance to start from 15 km and end at 5 km (the appearing might be too slow now, depends of your flying speed of course

I got FPS about 9-11 with lower settings before this mod in Argon Prime...

With this mod I have 18-25 with the higher settings!!!

The MOD IS ORIGINALLY MADE BY HECTOR, I just edited the draw distances!
I think someone will tweak this mod even better and further than I but heres a snack for you hungry fellows out there in the dark cold space:
http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?c ... no_fog.rar
Enjoy and give feed back!
Heres a another one with no scale and draw distance 200Km:
http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?c ... _200Km.rar