Supergibb: Oh wait, i manually changed the meshdistancescale in the .ini to 4.6. Have you tried that? I have no more texture pop ins, but shadows still pop in.
Yeah, I've gone as high as 10.0, actually. The actual textures don't pop in, even at the default 1.0, but the high quality ones (including animations on foliage) are still basically at Geralt's feet. If shadows change or pop in very close to Geralt, even for you, it means you have the bug described in those two topics I linked to, I think.