Elevator bug

[Smoky]

So, did anyone find a solution to circumvent that famous elevator bug (PC)?

[Castyles]

The infinite elevator ride? Got it yesterday and just stood there for a few minutes. Everything loaded just fine.

[Smoky]

Originally posted by Castyles:

The infinite elevator ride? Got it yesterday and just stood there for a few minutes. Everything loaded just fine.

Few minutes? How many few minutes? Five? 15 min? 40?

[Ommamar]

I think the most I have seen an elevator ride last was two minutes or so, of course I haven't stop watched it or anything. There are times though when it is noticeably longer then other times for the same elevator.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by Smoky:

Originally posted by Castyles:

The infinite elevator ride? Got it yesterday and just stood there for a few minutes. Everything loaded just fine.

Few minutes? How many few minutes? Five? 15 min? 40?

Like Ommamar wrote. About 3 minutes or something.

[Hedning]

Tab out and tab back in.

[Wasteland Project]

Alternative solution are the stairs.

[Iron Knights]

What elevator bug ? But then again I installed the UFO4P mod, fixes bugs and some broken quests.

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

What elevator bug ? But then again I installed the UFO4P mod, fixes bugs and some broken quests.

I have that too, but still occasionally get the ridiculously long elevator rides. My guessing is it has something to do with scripts catching up that might not necessarily be in the area you are in.

[Der Verrückte Hofnarr - sleeping]

The elevator bug is more or less the same as getting the infinite loading screen. The elevators you speak of are just loading screens where you can move around and look at your character and/or companions (if present).

The fix is to load a save made before going into any elevator, restarting the game and loading said save. Otherwise have fun doing the same things leading up to that elevator all over again, as per having to do the same as if it were the infinite loading bug.

[Solomon Hawk]

There are a few times I encounter that bug (hung elevator).
What I do now that seems to get around that is hit the ESC button for a few seconds, then back out of that to get back into the game. It seems to work for me, for now.

It seems to be some loading issue that gets stalled as the engine attempts to transition from closing the current instance (ex: interior scene) and calling up the prior instance (Exterior scene).
This was most noticeable in Far Harbor when leaving the vault in Cliffside Hotel via the elevator. But I have noticed it more recently in some instances in the Commonwealth.