Crash in "On a Rail" when changing level

Hi everyone, whenever I board the yellow tram in the “On the Rail” level to finish that level, my game crashes shortly after the “loading” message for the new level appears. I tried many tips on the forum (e.g., driving slower, letting the tram drive while not being on it, etc.), but none of this works. I also got to the end of the level using noclipping and tried to change the level from there, which also resulted in a crash. Also, checking the integrity of the installed files did not help either. Can you please help me? Thanks.

It might be your save game.It happened to another user as well.
Every object (barrel, coffee mug, crate, etc.) that you can move is spawned when a map is loaded.
So naturally some objects can spawn incorrectly, causing a crash.

Simply try either:

  1. loading a save game before the last one.If failure again, load one before that one.
  2. If you have no more saves to load, start the chapter again.
  3. You can try loading the map in the console command, but that is for last resort.

To use the 3rd option:

  1. Open the Option’s menu, go to Controls, then click Advanced.Then check the Console box.
  2. Open the console command menu by clicking the cedilla key (its above the Tab and below the Esc key)
  3. Then write down for example “load bm_c1a0a” to load a map. Thread for all the maps in BM.

Thank you for your help. Loading older save games did not work either. I just loaded the next map then and it worked.

Glad i could help.
Enjoy the game.

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