Opening Cart-Ride Bug

[z929669]

During the new-game opening cart ride, the first carriage takes a hard left into a boulder just after the cart helmsman barks "shut up back there!" This results in a number of issues resulting in a failure of the game to start.

 

Just an FYI to anyone experiencing this bug. I get it a lot lately during my benchmarking process using the opening sequence. I normally experience it once every 3-4 iterations of the new-game opening sequence and simply reset as a workaround.

 

My last benchmark run testing STEP:Core section I was the last straw when it happened 4x in a row. My guess is that the bug is inherently present with some probability of manifestation that is exacerbated by certain mods (particularly in Section I) and/or some issue with the navmesh after repacking BSAs using DDSopt or BSAopt.

 

Anyway, the problem has disappeared now that I removed the Timescale [10] tweak I had in my Bashed Patch. My guess is that this also exacerbates the bug. I doubt it is gone, but I'll post back any trends I notice.

[Kelmych]

I found that the cart ride failed when I used BSAopt/DDSopt to optimized some of the vanilla BSAs back into BSA format. This was a while ago, and I don't remember if the bugged behavior you describe is the same one I was seeing.

[EssArrBee]

Also, you will have problems if you are dropping below 30 FPS. I was doing some benchmarking with different ENBs and they would mess up the intro if only at 20-25 FPS.