Please restore compatible graphics mode

rdo118

This is all about loading stuff. When I zoom or pan or use the timeline scrub for forecasts, new tiles are being loaded, and that's where it all breaks down. It takes ages, and while the interface is waiting for the new tiles, everything is frozen. Just panning around very gently inside the tiny area where all the tiles have loaded already, is fine. No lag there.

I'm using Firefox, not Chrome. I did the equivalent thing in Firefox and there's nothing in the results any living being can make sense of. It's like a mega tetris with random colors. There are a few hundred different bits of code or procedure names plattered all over it, and that's simply impossible to compile into anything useful.

However, the latest update is about half as laggy as the current version at the time I created my first post. So something you've changed was in the right direction. It's still unbearably laggy, but there is a difference.

Here's the Firefox tetris:

And the equivalent in Chrome, quite possibly even worse than the Firefox one:

rdo118

I was mistaken. The improved performance seems to be caused by the performance recording process. Something that that process/mechanism is doing makes the site work slightly better while capturing performance data. Now that I tried to use the site normally, the lag was just as before. So, no improvement after all.

schilpat

@rdo118
Hi, thank you for the provided information. I had an idea of what the problem could be, and the first screenshot probably confirmed it - the readPixels function used within our forecast WebGL rendering pipeline. It is mandatory within our current pipeline, which was implemented many years ago based on WebGL1, and this approach was necessary and totally valid at that time. This function (gl.readPixels) can indeed be problematic; however, it is used with care and as little as possible. However, in case of using high-res screen(s), the performance could eventually degrade. To assure you, there were no changes in the pipeline in the last 3-4 years.

We are not going to do any modifications to the old pipeline since we are already working on a new one, which does not use any of these problematic functions at all. This will take some more time, so as a temporary solution, I can advise lowering your resolution (in case you are using multiple displays or e.g., a 4 K display) or setting browser zoom to e.g. 150-200% (in Firefox it is in the hamburger menu top-right).

Thank you for your patience.