So I'm doing the quest Elder Knowledge and I'm in Blackreach. Whenever I find an elevator in Blackreach I try to ride it up to add the location to my map. However, I go through the loading screen and when I arrive above I get stuck. It fades in from black and shows my character standing and then it suddenly fades black and repeats the process endlessly. I can't open a menu, jump, or do anything like that. It's as if It is replaying the first 2 seconds of what would happen after taking the elevator endlessly. I'm forced to quit the game, reopen and reload a save, and continue without taking the elevator.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a solution? (I'm on PC if there's a console command or something)
Thanks.

I am having the exact same problem. It leaves three unusable saves in my savegame folder; none of which are playable.

Maybe I haven't explored all of blackreach, but this means we are stuck until a fix for this.

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So I'm doing the quest Elder Knowledge and I'm in Blackreach. Whenever I find an elevator in Blackreach I try to ride it up to add the location to my map. However, I go through the loading screen and when I arrive above I get stuck.

Oh and I CAN use the elevators in Blackreach; just not the ones that go to Skyrim. Seems to be a load error.

Have there been any fixes to this? I need to go back in a kill the dragon and get five more nirnroot, but I hate to have to go through the long way just to turn and go back out the long way . . . . . I already went in twice.

Same problem here. Going up to Skyrim gets the game into some kind of loading loop, each time making a new autosave file. Although there seems to be some kind a intermittent thing about it. On one occasion I went up the great lift at Alftand, discovered the location and was free to move around but then got the error going back down to Blackreach. I now use the normal Alftand entrance, it's a bit longer but not what I would call a big detour.

Disable autosaves?

BlackReach
Obviously we have all had the same problems, due to this console porting [censored].
Anyways, what i did for the area related quests, do not quick save at all.. you can ONLY use the auto saves from whenever you come to a new area/place.
If you guys also experience a [censored] ton of graphical flickering that makes you want to have a seizure that is also an issue i absolutely hate.
Do not mine anything when screen flickers like that, and makes a "water" sound every time it flickers.
Basically the whole area is quite bugged with errored saved files and graphics.
no matter how powerful your system is, it will do it.
To be honest, i have more hope for the modders to fix the problem then the people who made the game.
Dont use the "continue" after you get the load save error, (after you validate to get files back), click load and select the last autosave, to prevent asplosions .

hmm no problem here; all the blackreach lifts worked fine for me.

Perhaps everyone experiencing this issue should post their system specs (and mods installed) to see if there is any commonality.

Sometimes the simplest suggestions are the ones that work. Disabling autosave stops the loop and makes using the elevators possible, so it's a good workaround. But by no means a solution. Using elevators should also work with autosave enabled, but that's obvious I guess.

Even with autosave disabled there still seems to be a problem with loading of the new cell. Arriving at the top of the elevator the picture flickers/fades a couple of times from dark to bright and back. Best way to describe is like a car engine that needs to be cranked a few times before firing. So there seems to be an underlying problem that escalates with autosave enabled.

Fix in 1.4???