Dawn Station
Nothing here is downloaded — the whole scene is being generated.
starting up
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The picture may hold still for a few seconds at a time while it does. That is
the graphics card being busy, not the page having stopped.
The first load after a change is slow, and almost all of it is your graphics
driver compiling this scene’s shaders — measured at 188 seconds of
a 206 second first load, against 18 seconds to generate every surface, mesh
and texture. It is kept on disk afterwards, which is why loading a second time
takes about twenty seconds. This is expected, not an error.
Still working. A first load on this machine has been measured at four and
a half minutes. The counter on the right is live even while the page is
busy, so if it is still climbing this has not hung.