OK What is it with Outerra not applying some of my settings from these cfg files? Yes, they are saving in the files and still named properly and aren't being overwritten or anything. I set those 2 settings back to the old values and that's what they currently are as I open up the file again after saving it (and running Outerra again), but Outerra is still using the new steering. And no, shadowmap_distance in the eng.cfg still won't go over 2000 either.
I just tried to make it make a new world.cfg (and changing sun settings) file by running it without the file, but it doesn't, though it did create those new values in the file I removed before I removed it. There wasn't more to the old settings was there? It doesn't feel like I'm driving a big lumbering truck anymore.