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src/world/GameStageContent.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { Ebike } from "@/components/ebike/Ebike";
 import { InteractableObject } from "@/components/three/interaction/InteractableObject";
 import { RepairGame } from "@/components/three/gameplay/RepairGame";
+import { RepairGamePreloader } from "@/components/three/gameplay/RepairGamePreloader";
 import { PylonDownedPylon } from "@/components/gameplay/pylon/PylonDownedPylon";
 import { PylonNarrativeFlow } from "@/components/gameplay/pylon/PylonNarrativeFlow";
 import { ZoneDebugVisual } from "@/components/zone/ZoneDetection";
@@ -91,6 +92,14 @@ export function GameStageContent(): React.JSX.Element {
 
   return (
     <>
+      {/* Preload ONLY the next upcoming mission's assets so we never keep a
+          finished mission's heavy textures resident (ebike alone is ~40MB).
+          Holding every mission at once is what saturated GPU memory. */}
+      {mainState === "intro" || mainState === "ebike" ? (
+        <RepairGamePreloader mission="pylon" />
+      ) : null}
+      {mainState === "pylon" ? <RepairGamePreloader mission="farm" /> : null}
+
       {mainState === "intro" ? <StageAnchor {...INTRO_STAGE_ANCHOR} /> : null}
       <Ebike position={EBIKE_WORLD_POSITION} />
       <PylonDownedPylon />
@@ -104,7 +113,11 @@ export function GameStageContent(): React.JSX.Element {
       {REPAIR_MISSION_POSITION_ENTRIES.map(({ mission }) => {
         const position = getRepairMissionPosition(mission, anchors);
         if (!position) return null;
-        if (mission === "pylon" && pylonInNarrative) return null;
+        if (
+          mission === "pylon" &&
+          (pylonInNarrative || pylonStep === "waiting")
+        )
+          return null;
         return (
           <RepairGame key={mission} mission={mission} position={position} />
         );