diff --git a/app/ui/features/continuity/index.js b/app/ui/features/continuity/index.js
index f3aabf76..46267272 100644
--- a/app/ui/features/continuity/index.js
+++ b/app/ui/features/continuity/index.js
@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ export default {
       return { inputs: withIt.overrides, notes: withIt.unwired > without.unwired ? ["The identity picture was not used: this pipeline has no free reference input for it."] : [] };
     };
     const carryHook = async ({ project, scene, slots }) => {
-      if (app.pipeline.allOff?.()) return {};        // Disable all enhancements means a plain run
-      const mine = (app.pipeline.currentValues() || {}).continuity;
+      // Read from the pipeline this run was frozen with, not the live one an edit may have changed since the click.
+      if (app.pipeline.allOff?.(slots)) return {};        // Disable all enhancements means a plain run
+      const mine = (app.pipeline.currentValues(slots) || {}).continuity;
       if (!mine) return {};       // the module that holds the choices is not here: this does nothing at all
       const carry = mine.carry !== false, guard = mine.dark_guard !== false;
       const slot = startSlot(slots);
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/api.js b/app/ui/shell/api.js
index f1472e53..361f515f 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/api.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/api.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export async function call(method, path, body) {
     body: body === undefined ? undefined : JSON.stringify(body),
   });
   const payload = await res.json().catch(() => null);
-  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(why(res, payload));
+  if (!res.ok) throw Object.assign(new Error(why(res, payload)), { status: res.status });      // status: a refusal (4xx) is not an outage
   return payload;
 }
 
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ export const api = {
       try {
         const res = await fetch(`${BASE}/api/media`, { method: "POST", body: form });
         const payload = await res.json().catch(() => null);
-        if (!res.ok) throw new Error(why(res, payload));
+        if (!res.ok) throw Object.assign(new Error(why(res, payload)), { status: res.status });      // status: a refusal (4xx) is not an outage
         out.media.push(...(payload.media || [])); out.problems.push(...(payload.problems || []));
       } catch (err) { out.problems.push(`${file.name}: ${err.message}`); }
     }
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
index f761bf53..b9013b78 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export function linkPipeline({ project, pipeline, onOpen, say = () => {} }) {
       retry = setTimeout(adopt, 5000);
     } else if (!pipeline.slots() || (pipeline.unreachable && pipeline.unreachable())) {
       // ComfyUI is down: keep asking, slowly; and if a panel's own load gets there first, its announcement puts this project's in.
-      waiting = true;
+      waiting = pipeline.slots() ? "retry" : "load";       // "load": nothing loaded at all, so a panel's own load may get there first
       retry = setTimeout(adopt, 15000);
       if (retries === 4) say("ComfyUI is not answering, so this project's pipeline is not loaded yet: it goes in as soon as ComfyUI answers.");
     } else {
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export function linkPipeline({ project, pipeline, onOpen, say = () => {} }) {
   }
 
   pipeline.subscribe((slots) => {
-    if (waiting && owner === null) { retries = 0; adopt(); return; }
+    if (waiting === "load" && owner === null) { retries = 0; adopt(); return; }
     if (!project.project || project.project.id !== owner) return;
     store(project.project.models || {}, slots);
   });
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
index 96244b1c..8b65e808 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
@@ -104,10 +104,10 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
   // plain object -- and only accepts a decoded key that names a module this
   // session already knows is installed, so an unrelated node's incidentally
   // JSON-shaped string can't inject a bogus entry that round-trips forever.
-  function valuesAlreadyPlaced() {
+  function valuesAlreadyPlaced(from = slots) {
     const known = new Set([...Object.keys(modulesById), "_off"]);    // _off: the modules this project turned off
     const merged = {};
-    (slots || []).forEach((slot) => {
+    (from || []).forEach((slot) => {
       Object.values(slot.inputs || {}).forEach((v) => {
         if (typeof v !== "string") return;
         let parsed;
@@ -273,18 +273,19 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
   // can never hold a stale copy of each other's CONFIRMED state between
   // them -- the pending overlay above is the one deliberate exception,
   // needed so an in-flight edit from either editor isn't lost by the other.
-  function currentValues() {
+  // `from`: a pipeline other than the live one (Generate's, frozen at the click); edits not yet landed then do not count.
+  function currentValues(from) {
     const merged = {};
     Object.values(modulesById).forEach((m) => {
       const own = {};
       Object.entries(m.settings || {}).forEach(([name, spec]) => { own[name] = spec.default; });
       if (Object.keys(own).length) merged[m.id] = own;
     });
-    const already = valuesAlreadyPlaced();
+    const already = valuesAlreadyPlaced(from || slots);
     Object.entries(already).forEach(([moduleId, own]) => {
       merged[moduleId] = { ...(merged[moduleId] || {}), ...own };
     });
-    Object.entries(pendingValues).forEach(([moduleId, own]) => {
+    Object.entries(from ? {} : pendingValues).forEach(([moduleId, own]) => {
       merged[moduleId] = { ...(merged[moduleId] || {}), ...own };
     });
     return merged;
@@ -304,7 +305,7 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
   }
   // "Disable all enhancements": one project switch that makes every run plain, for A/B tests. The per-module
   // choices are kept underneath, so switching it back restores exactly what was on.
-  const allOff = () => Boolean((currentValues()._off || {}).all);
+  const allOff = (from) => Boolean((currentValues(from)._off || {}).all);
   const setAllOff = (on) => setModuleValue("_off", "all", Boolean(on));
   // The screen is the truth: an edit is written into the live slots the moment it is made (the same blob the
   // server's place() writes), so a run started now reads what is shown without waiting for any round trip.
@@ -591,7 +592,10 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
           try { await refreshManifest(); } catch (_) { /* the next save retries it */ }
           return true;
         }
-      } catch (_) { unreachable = true; /* the request failed (not a refusal); try the next layering */ }
+      } catch (e) {
+        // No answer, or a gateway's (a tunnel, a restarting ComfyUI): try again later. An answer refusing it is a refusal.
+        if (!e || !e.status || e.status >= 502) unreachable = true;
+      }
     }
     unreachableLast = unreachable;
     // Nothing saved was accepted (a failed request, or a file the server refuses): the default
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
index 9ecc9f53..0cc6ed6a 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
@@ -485,3 +485,25 @@ test("a project opened while ComfyUI is down never gets an earlier project's wai
   await PS.ensureLoaded();
   assert.strictEqual(PS.slots().find((s) => s.id === "model").inputs.file, "");
 });
+
+test("a saved pipeline the server answers with a refusal is a refusal, not an outage; no answer is an outage", async () => {
+  for (const [err, outage] of [[Object.assign(new Error("slot 0 role 0 has no input"), { status: 400 }), false], [new Error("Failed to fetch"), true], [Object.assign(new Error("Bad gateway"), { status: 502 }), true]]) {
+    const PS = load([]);
+    await PS.ensureLoaded();
+    const real = lastApi.editPipeline;
+    lastApi.editPipeline = async () => { throw err; };
+    assert.strictEqual(await PS.adopt([{ id: "model", node: "Loader", inputs: { file: "x" } }]), false);
+    assert.strictEqual(PS.unreachable(), outage, err.message);
+    lastApi.editPipeline = real;
+  }
+});
+
+test("settings can be read from a frozen pipeline, apart from the live one and edits not yet landed", async () => {
+  const PS = load([]);
+  lastApi.modules = async () => ({ modules: [{ id: "continuity", settings: { carry: { type: "bool", default: true } } }] });
+  await PS.adopt([{ id: "settings", node: "Sink", inputs: { settings: JSON.stringify({ continuity: { carry: true } }) } }]);
+  const frozen = structuredClone(PS.slots());
+  await PS.adopt([{ id: "settings", node: "Sink", inputs: { settings: JSON.stringify({ continuity: { carry: false }, _off: { all: true } }) } }]);
+  assert.deepStrictEqual([PS.currentValues(frozen).continuity.carry, PS.allOff(frozen)], [true, false]);
+  assert.deepStrictEqual([PS.currentValues().continuity.carry, PS.allOff()], [false, true]);
+});
diff --git a/core/readiness.py b/core/readiness.py
index d176787e..c9aee144 100644
--- a/core/readiness.py
+++ b/core/readiness.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def machine(disk_free_gb=None) -> List[dict]:
         else:
             props = torch.cuda.get_device_properties(gpu_index())
             out.append(row("ok", f"{props.name}, {props.total_memory / 1024 ** 3:.0f} GB, sm_{props.major}{props.minor}"))
-            if not torch.cuda.is_bf16_supported():
+            if props.major < 8:                               # bf16 arrived with Ampere (sm_80), on the card ComfyUI uses
                 out.append(row("fail", "This GPU does not support bf16, which the H3 VAEs need."))
             if props.major >= 12 and have("xformers"):
                 out.append(row("warn", "xformers has no masked-attention kernel for this GPU: start ComfyUI with --disable-xformers --use-sage-attention."))
diff --git a/core/tests/test_readiness.py b/core/tests/test_readiness.py
index 1ce4072b..3320fc84 100644
--- a/core/tests/test_readiness.py
+++ b/core/tests/test_readiness.py
@@ -52,6 +52,5 @@ def test_the_gpu_row_names_the_card_comfyui_uses(monkeypatch):
     monkeypatch.setattr(r, "gpu_index", lambda: 1)
     monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "get_device_properties",
                         lambda i: asked.append(i) or types.SimpleNamespace(name=f"GPU{i}", total_memory=32 * 1024 ** 3, major=12, minor=0))
-    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "is_bf16_supported", lambda: True)
     rows = r.machine()
     assert asked == [1] and any("GPU1" in x["text"] for x in rows)