Hello!

I'm having a strange problem with Skyrim. I recently resumed playing the game, after a 6 month pause from it. It now seems the draw distance for buildings is ridiculously short. The city of Whiterun is now not visible even from the nearby farm and brewery. The lights from the windows are actually visible from there, but not the building itself. The same problem occurs with other cities.

All the relevant sliders in settings are maxed out, and draw distance for other objects seems to be working all right.
I have an Acer V3-771G, Intel i7 (2.30 Ghz), 12 GB RAM, NVIDIA Gforce GT 640m.
I have been using some mods (Auto unequip ammo, complete crafting overhaul, Realistic ragdoll force, Deadly combat, dynamic merchants, green water fix for WATER, high res texture pack, RNG guards, Run for your lives, SkyTEST realistic animals, SkyUI, static mesh improvement, WARZONES, WATER, Weapons and armor fixes, Climates of Tamriel) plus Dawnguard - however, I tried loading the game with no mods. The problem was still there.
I also tried adding ugridstoload=9 to my skyrim.ini, still no buildings.

I've searched around a bit, and it seems other people have been having similar problems. However, I haven't seen a solution yet. Does anyone have any idea as to what can be done about the buildings draw distance?