Forest zone cutscene in playthrough B bugged

[^6Smithinator1337]

Hi,

I'm currently in playthrough B and completely unable to progress because this cutscene seems like it's not loading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8nKxhUeCnU

At the very beginning of the video you'll see a very brief transition with a bunch of grey and black bars flashing on the screen, my game just gets stuck on this transition and never progresses to the cutscene itself. I'm able to see the dialog and everything onscreen while these bars are still flashing, and eventually when the cutscene ends I'm also able to see 9S and 2B's dialogue and hear that the game has returned to regular gameplay (sound effects like dashing and swinging a weapon), but this transition stays stuck onscreen.

I have FAR installed (I think 0.9.4).

I couldn't find a single instance of this happening to anyone else when I googled it, this is what I've tried:

• Ensuring FAR's frame limiter is on and set to 60 Hz, along with the FAR setting for my monitor's framerate
  
• Using only one monitor at a time
  
• Resetting my FAR settings to default by deleting dinput8.ini
  
• Verifying the game files
  
• Completely deleting [install folder]/data/movie and verifying game files to re-download cutscenes

I'm not sure what else to try. This is pretty frustrating since I'm forced to view this cutscene since even if I don't attack any enemies it plays no matter what if I advance far enough into the area. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

[TheSeek]

Have you tried removing FAR entirely and seeing if it works without it?

[^6Smithinator1337]

I haven't, I was hoping I wouldn't have to go to that much effort just to get around a cutscene but it's not like I have any other ideas and I can't progress in the game otherwise so I'll give it a try.

[^6Smithinator1337]

Nevermind, I forgot with newer versions of FAR you can disable it by just temporarily removing the DLL instead of actually uninstalling SpecialK and all that.

Tried with FAR disabled as well, same result.

['.The Sev.']

I get this same issue. Game-breaking and cannot continue the game. I only use NAIOM and LodMod. Never had this issue until this exact spot.

EDIT: I disabled LodMod/NAIOM by moving the xinput1_4.dll and dinput8.dll out of the game folder, then playing the game again. This allowed the cutscene to continue.

Save often, this happens multiple times in that zone.

[gthk4]

Originally posted by '.The Sev.':

I get this same issue. Game-breaking and cannot continue the game. I only use NAIOM and LodMod. Never had this issue until this exact spot.

EDIT: I disabled LodMod/NAIOM by moving the xinput1_4.dll and dinput8.dll out of the game folder, then playing the game again. This allowed the cutscene to continue.

I can pass it with NAIOM mod installed and not other else. I avoid any mod for graphic.

[^6Smithinator1337]

Originally posted by '.The Sev.':

I get this same issue. Game-breaking and cannot continue the game. I only use NAIOM and LodMod. Never had this issue until this exact spot.

EDIT: I disabled LodMod/NAIOM by moving the xinput1_4.dll and dinput8.dll out of the game folder, then playing the game again. This allowed the cutscene to continue.

Save often, this happens multiple times in that zone.

Yep this fixes it, I was wrong in my above post where I mentioned I disabled FAR, I accidentally only removed dinput8.dll and not xinput1_4.dll. Removing both allowed the cutscene to continue. Likely a bug with FAR then, I'll see if I can report it to the mod author.

My theory about it is that those cutscenes are the only ones that have the subtitle bar pop up at the beginning, i.e. those "X years ago" popups. Those are the only cutscenes I can think of that have them and are the ones it seems to be happening on, so it might be related.

[PEACHY]

♥♥♥♥♥ sake man, just lost like 2 hours of progress to this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[dexter0x19]

This solves the problem I was having at the exact place and same playthrough. I use the mod manager from nexusmods. All I had to do was turn off the LoadMod and after the cutscene, turn it back on.

build id: 7020666
app id: 524220
SpecialK: 24.3.26.1