She booted into Safe Mode. The screen was low-resolution, blocky, ancient-looking—like a computer from 1998. No GPU driver loaded at all. Just the generic Windows display driver, dumb and slow and utterly harmless.
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But as she rotated the camera around the building’s north face, the screen froze for half a second. Then another half-second. Micro-stutters. The driver was loaded, but the shader cache was corrupted. The pre-compiled instructions that told the GPU how to render the tower’s glass panels were full of holes. She booted into Safe Mode