diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/RetailPViewRenderer.cs b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/RetailPViewRenderer.cs
index 55a11308..0038c896 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/RetailPViewRenderer.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/RetailPViewRenderer.cs
@@ -70,10 +70,12 @@ public sealed class RetailPViewRenderer
         // apparatus (plan Task 5). Zero-alloc: GetTimestamp/GetElapsedTime + a direct-
         // call local fn (struct closure over _ts, never a delegate).
         long _ts = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
+        FrameProfiler.MarkGpu("_start");   // GPU timestamp baseline (=2; CPU-only phases diff ~0)
         void Phase(string n)
         {
             if (FrameProfiler.CpuPhaseEnabled)
                 FrameProfiler.AddCpuPhase(n, System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetElapsedTime(_ts).TotalMilliseconds);
+            FrameProfiler.MarkGpu(n);
             _ts = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
         }
 
@@ -859,35 +861,23 @@ public sealed class RetailPViewRenderer
             DrawEntityBucket(ctx, _allCellStatics, _cellObjCells);
         }
 
-        // Loop 2: per-cell particles, AFTER the batched statics are in the depth
-        // buffer. T3 (BR-5): particles gate through the SAME viewcone as their
-        // owners — the callback receives the cone-surviving entity set, so an
-        // emitter attached to a culled static no longer draws through the wall
-        // (the candle-flames-through-walls fix). Re-cull per cell to rebuild the
-        // owner set; the sphere tests are negligible next to the draw submission
-        // just removed. Consumed synchronously within this iteration (scratch reuse).
-        for (int i = pvFrame.OrderedVisibleCells.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
-        {
-            uint cellId = pvFrame.OrderedVisibleCells[i];
-            if (!drawableCells.Contains(cellId))
-                continue;
-
-            if (!partition.ByCell.TryGetValue(cellId, out var bucket) || bucket.Count == 0)
-                continue;
-
-            _cellStaticScratch.Clear();
-            foreach (var e in bucket)
-            {
-                EntitySphere(e, out var c, out float r);
-                if (viewcone.SphereVisibleInCell(cellId, c, r))
-                    _cellStaticScratch.Add(e);
-            }
-            if (_cellStaticScratch.Count == 0)
-                continue;
-
-            foreach (var slice in GetCellSlicesOrNoClip(clipAssembly, cellId))
-                ctx.DrawCellParticles?.Invoke(new RetailPViewCellSliceContext(cellId, slice, _cellStaticScratch));
-        }
+        // Cell-particle pass — consolidated across ALL visible cells into ONE
+        // draw. Was per-cell, and each call re-walked the ENTIRE live particle set
+        // (DrawRetailPViewCellParticles → ParticleRenderer.Draw enumerates every
+        // live emitter), i.e. O(cells × particles) — the dense-town cellobjects
+        // sink (~5 ms at Arwic). Static owners are disjoint per cell, so the UNION
+        // (= _allCellStatics, already accumulated above for the batched draw) draws
+        // EXACTLY the same emitters: the callback gates on owner id (the cone-
+        // surviving set), the renderer sorts globally back-to-front, and the per-
+        // cell slice was never used for clipping (the scissor gate was deleted in
+        // T3 — DrawRetailPViewCellParticles disables clip distances). Runs after
+        // the batched static draw so emitters depth-test against the statics now in
+        // the buffer (the statics-before-particles order). cellId/slice are unused
+        // by the particle pass — pass NoClipSlice + the union owner list. This also
+        // drops the per-cell BuildDrawList allocations (N → 1).
+        if (_allCellStatics.Count > 0)
+            ctx.DrawCellParticles?.Invoke(
+                new RetailPViewCellSliceContext(0u, NoClipSlice, _allCellStatics));
     }
 
     // T3 scratch lists (render thread only; cleared per use).