Non-persistent reference actors not loading

[WarenAlKar]

Bit of a technical title, I know, but this is something that had been bothering me recently so I thought I'd see if anyone had found a permanent fix.

 

The bug is that actors (NPCs or creatures) that aren't marked as a persistent reference will sometimes fail to load into an exterior cell. So far I've only found three ways to get around this.

 

1. Save your game, then load it
   
2. Go into a nearby interior cell and purge your cell buffer
   
3. Wait until the cell is due to reset, and visit it then
   

 

Basically, three things that force the cell to load anew. Now since this tends to happen soon after you've been through a few exterior cells it makes me think that it's the engine being sloppy about unloading buffered cell data and loading new cell data when transitioning between exterior cells. Now fortunately non-persistent actors are almost never used in quests, so it doesn't break things there. But the annoying part is when you save in, say, the Gypsum train yard office and step outside to find a horde of blind deathclaws bearing down on you because they weren't loaded into the cell properly when you entered it. Tried a variety of ini changes to force more precise loading for exterior cells, but haven't had any luck so far.