Is there a way to increase view distance?

He was actually referring to CVar Farclip which is a variable that controls the view draw distance of the whole environment and it still is in the game wow vanilla classic just not shown in the settings.
Typing /console farclip [number] in chat and then pressing Enter changes it.
I remember that back then it was a performance drop on the gpu when setting it to 2000-4000 or so (or performance increase, depending if you reduced it below your current setting or increased over it)

Only thing is the miniumum view distance is already quite high by default and can’t be further reduced as it once was the case, and changing this setting won’t let you see too much of a difference, except in the barrens maybe as opposed to teldrassil. Have to try it. Once we could set it to only be able to see about let’s say 50-100 yards around you to increase fps. Many expansions ago we could set it THAT low indeed :slight_smile:

Type: /console farclip [any number between 1 and 4000]
…although I don’t know if 4000 is the upper cap, could be 1000, or could be even more than 4000, who knows… have to test it somewhere like barrens where terrain is straight and vast.

Example 1 to type in chat followed by Enter: /console farclip 50
Example 2 to type in chat followed by Enter: /console farclip 1000

P.S. There are many more cvars that I don’t remember the commands for any longer, such as reducing or increasing weather (number of rain particles) effect and so on.