May have figured out the "Drowning" bug

[Cherry Bun~]

I don't have a consistent fix but i think i have an explanation.
Ok, so swimming up and surfacing is all scripted and automatic. the first time you take controll is after surfacing. For some reason, after you are given control, you fall through the water and die on impact with an invisible floor. for those who have the bug, if you listen closely you can hear yourself hitting ground before dying.

Possible fixes: 1) Lower all your graphic setting to the lowest they can be. i've heard this can fix it
2) find a save file that is just after the swimming portion and load that so you never have to swim in the first place
Hopefully a patch can fix this in the future but for now that is the information and fixes i have found.

[Dusk of Oolacile]

And cap your frame rate. This game wouldn't be the first one in which physics behaves strange at high frame rates. Just a theory, but worth a try, none the less.

[Madman_Jack]

enable the console (launch options>put in "-allowconsole" without the quotes), use god, fly and ghost to get up to the lightouse, then put in walk (turns off ghost and fly) and god again to turn off godmode.