Maybe it's the particles? Almost everything in the game uses deterministic particles, but they don't work with the ring, since the particle's properties are no

Maybe it's the particles? Almost everything in the game uses deterministic particles, but they don't work with the ring, since the particle's properties are no longer just a function of time, but also of the ring's entire position history. I remember reading this was a big problem with the ring chapter. I'm not sure how it was solved in the original version, and I'm surprised it regressed