Consistent Crashing when first talking to Dogmeat

[kraoro]

I'm having a repeatable issue on the exact same spot, though. Just after leaving Sanctuary and getting to Red Rocket, if I talk to Dogmeat and recruit him as a companion, I crash. It's always at the same spot, right when the player character says "OK, let's stick together," and Dogmeat walks away, and presumably his AI switches from regular sandboxing to companion AI. At least, I assume that's what's going on under the hood. It always crashes at literally the same spot.

I've dug into xEdit, and nothing in the modlist is touching any of Dogmeat's records, not his NPC entry, or his Quest entry, etc. The only thing that affected Dogmeat was a mesh and texture set provided by a mod called "Creatures and Crows," but that was just a mesh and texture and didn't have any xEdit changes. I tried deleting them and leaving Dogmeat completely vanilla, but I still crash on the exact same spot.

I'm completely stumped. If I ignore Dogmeat and continue on my way, the game is fine. I was able to make it into Concord and continue as normal. I'm worried about going forward, though, because Dogmeat becomes a mandatory part of the main quest later on, and I'd rather fix this issue now so that if I have to start a new game, I only lose ten minutes of progress instead of several hours.

[rollingrock]

Do you have a crash log?

[ajantaju]

Cannot replicate.