Interesting NPCs Infinite Loading Screen Freeze Fix - Snapleg Cave - Rift Watchtower

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• []The bug

  []Interesting NPCs moved a vanilla NPC (LvlOrcMelee, "Orc" , Base Form ID: 0x1E7BB, Reference Form ID: 0xD1F56) from RiftWatchtowerExterior03 to RiftWatchtowerExterior01.

  []For some reason, this often causes an a game freeze the second time you visit the Snapleg Cave, Rift Watchtower area.

  []If you fast travel to the Snapleg Cave area, you might encounter an infinite loading screen.

  []If you approach the Snapleg Cave area on foot from certain directions, you might encounter a freeze.

  []When you exit Snapleg Cave, you might also encounter an infinite loading screen.

  []It doesn't happen all the time or to everybody.

[]In earlier versions of Interesting NPCs, this issue was hidden because the mod didn't include ONAM records, which prevented this edit from appying.

[]In recent versions of Interesting NPCs, this bug surfaced because ONAM records are now saved correctly:

• []Interesting NPCs started using SSEEdit instead of Wrye Bash to flag the 3DNPC.esp as ESM.

  []SSEEdit correctly saves the ONAM records for ESM plugins, Wrye Bash did not.

[]This bug can be reproduced via the following console commands from the main menu:

• []coc SnapLegCaveExterior

  []coc whiterun

  []coc SnapLegCaveExterior

[]The cause took me 3 days of extensive testing to figure out.

[]This bug still exists as of Interesting NPCs v4. 54, October, 2024.

[]The fix/mitigation

• []I created an override of 0xD1F56 in a different plugin.

  []I also marked 0xD1F56 as persistent just to be sure.

Requirements

• []Interesting NPCs SE (3DNPC)

Installation/Uninstallation/Update

• []Whenever. Doesn't matter.

Credits

[]Testing - drewski

[]Testing - StS

[]Testing - ra2phoenix

[*]Testing - N