Join the club man! When I played this a few years ago I had no problem - even though I had a PC that was far too fast for the game, using the latest patches and "\" worked fine.

Then only a month or so back I went back to play this on my current box, and for some reason it took SO BLOODY MANY tries before I managed to get this to work for some reason!

First it had him disappearing (with no other characters walking all over the place - so at least it's easy to tell you've hit the bug!). Then I kept screwing up as he got onto the elevator somehow.

Of course, once I had it working once I had to re-try it to figure out exactly what I had done to make it work, since I felt the need to be able to do this consistently... Which was probably more annoying and time-consuming than getting it to work the first time, since it can appear to be almost random - especially after dozens of runs!

this worked for me the first time, had the same problem luck disappearing after the first map transition, tried the mission a dozen times same outcome.. stumbled upon a solution on gamefaqs (will reference the original thread as soon as i stumble upon it) since, it worked on the very first attempt, think it is a valid workaround:

1. First map transition: Make sure that the 'you are too close/too far' banner is flashing on the screen while making the transition
2. Elevator near the fruit vendor: Make sure the 'you are too far' banner flashes atleast 14 times before you trigger the elevator switch
3. Gravpath transitioning to anox tours: Make sure that the 'you are too close' banner is flashing while making the transition

Hope other folks find it useful. Completely broken game though :)

Also, there is an alternative solution, a bit more complex but rather effective. Use application ThrottleStop from techpowerup (or something similar) to slow down your PC before starting to follow that guy.

Thank you so much, dude. I finally made it