World editor doesn't pick up on changes to user path in startup.ini

If the user path in startup.ini is changed, the in-game world editor doesn't seem to get the memo. Trying to load in, for example, a texture file results in it falling back to "NO TEXTURE" and an error to the console (e.g. Failed to load diffuse map ../../../../../foo/bar/baz.dds for stage 0).

The fact that it recurses backwards so much (each of those ../) when trying to read custom files (it's not just textures that are affected) made me think it was still trying to read from the default location, so I tried creating a junction/symlink from My Documents\BeamNG.drive to the where the actual user folder was, but that didn't work either.

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On a another note related to startup.ini: I found that If it's been edited at all, it will cause Steam's own file validation check to fail for BNG (if you initiate it).

 

I haven't ever written changes to the file while BNG was running. I also just did a test where I modified it while Steam was closed, then re-opened Steam and ran its validation checker - it still reported that one file failed and would be re-acquired.

I should mention that BNG's built-in validation checker does not fail if startup.ini has been changed (although it does complain if I outright remove the file, which I tested earlier).

Unfortunately, that method results in the same behaviour in the world editor as well.