(I'm not asking for help, so I didn't put this in the pctech forum. Just sharing a video. If it's still more appropriate for the tech forum, I'll understand. )

Since patch 1.2 I can't use certain weapons in the game without the GUI temp-freezing after reloading. So I thought I'd give them to my companions, thinking it wouldn't affect them. But it does. In the vid, around the 7 second mark you can see Boone reload, then he crouches, frozen, for a long period. He finally starts firing and then reloads again, causing another long delay where he can't fire. I actually find it funny to watch, lol. I also find it interesting that the bug would affect companions in the first place, but I'm no programmer.

Also, idle curiosity: there's a moment where he reaches out an arm to sweep it along the ground - there's nothing in front of him...anyone know what that animation represents?

Disclaimer:for clarity of showing the bug, I edited out the Wheel moments where I heal Boone w/stimpacks. eg, he's not super human, haha.
Hopefully YT will load it properly. Sometimes I wonder about them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMluYdMyR1s

Ive had him freeze also a few time, one time he was stuck in reloading mode.

those time I went up to him and used the Back Off command to get him unstuck or entry a building or something

I hadn't thought of trying that. But that still means I'd have to hover behind him all the time (if he's using one of the bugged weapons), and that's no good.

I'm pretty sure for me at least that it's the reload bug. Before the patch my companions could use the CR fine. There might've been a 1/3 second delay. Now it's 5 seconds. And only with those specific weapons. Like most others, I've given up on using them for now.