Modified: trunk/blender/source/creator/creator.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/blender/source/creator/creator.c	2008-02-11 13:04:52 UTC (rev 13640)
+++ trunk/blender/source/creator/creator.c	2008-02-11 13:30:52 UTC (rev 13641)
@@ -759,8 +759,12 @@
 			}
 			
 			if (G.background) {
-				BKE_read_file(filename, NULL);
+				int retval = BKE_read_file(filename, NULL);
 				sound_initialize_sounds();
+				
+				/*we successfully loaded a blend file, get sure that
+				pointcache works */
+				if (retval!=0) G.relbase_valid = 1;
 
 				/* happens for the UI on file reading too */
 				BKE_reset_undo();