diff --git a/interfaces/Crafter.Graphics-VulkanBuffer.cppm b/interfaces/Crafter.Graphics-VulkanBuffer.cppm
index fe0e60a..a561487 100644
--- a/interfaces/Crafter.Graphics-VulkanBuffer.cppm
+++ b/interfaces/Crafter.Graphics-VulkanBuffer.cppm
@@ -280,21 +280,47 @@ namespace Crafter {
                 srcStageMask  = VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_HOST_BIT;
             } else {
                 Resize(usageFlags | VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT, VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_DEVICE_LOCAL_BIT, count);
-                VulkanBuffer<T, true> staging;
+                // Persistent staging instead of a Create+DeferredClear per call
+                // (issue #120): on no-/small-BAR hardware Mesh::Refit /
+                // RecordProceduralBuild hit this branch every frame for deforming
+                // meshes, so a fresh alloc+map+free cycle per upload was pure
+                // churn on exactly the hardware this path targets. Keep a small
+                // ring of staging buffers, each grown to a high-water mark and
+                // reused — reallocated (by Resize, which defers the outgrown
+                // allocation) only when a larger upload arrives.
+                //
+                // The ring is grown lazily, on first entry into this staged
+                // branch, so ReBAR/UMA hardware (which always takes the direct
+                // `if` branch above) never constructs a staging allocation it
+                // does not use.
+                //
+                // Why a ring and not one shared buffer: the vkCmdCopyBuffer below
+                // still reads the staging buffer after this call returns — the
+                // reason the old code used DeferredClear. With frames pipelined
+                // framesInFlight deep, overwriting one shared staging buffer next
+                // frame would clobber data the previous frame's copy is still
+                // reading. Indexing by frameCounter % framesInFlight gives each
+                // in-flight frame its own slot; a slot is rewritten only after
+                // framesInFlight frames have elapsed — the exact window after
+                // which single-queue submission order (the same guarantee the
+                // #101 deletion queue relies on) ensures that copy has completed.
+                const std::uint32_t ringSize =
+                    Device::framesInFlight ? Device::framesInFlight : 1;
+                if (stagingRing.size() < ringSize) {
+                    stagingRing.resize(ringSize);
+                }
+                VulkanBuffer<T, true>& staging =
+                    stagingRing[Device::frameCounter % ringSize];
                 // SHADER_DEVICE_ADDRESS: Create always queries the buffer device
                 // address (and allocates with the device-address bit); the
-                // staging buffer's own address is otherwise unused.
-                staging.Create(VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT | VK_BUFFER_USAGE_SHADER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_BIT, VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_HOST_VISIBLE_BIT, count);
+                // staging buffer's own address is otherwise unused. Resize reuses
+                // the existing allocation (and its mapped pointer) when the
+                // upload still fits the slot's high-water capacity.
+                staging.Resize(VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT | VK_BUFFER_USAGE_SHADER_DEVICE_ADDRESS_BIT, VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_HOST_VISIBLE_BIT, count);
                 std::memcpy(staging.value, src, bytes);
                 staging.FlushDevice();
                 VkBufferCopy region { .srcOffset = 0, .dstOffset = 0, .size = bytes };
                 vkCmdCopyBuffer(cmd, staging.buffer, buffer, 1, &region);
-                // The queued copy still reads the staging buffer after this call
-                // returns, so a plain Clear() would be a use-after-free; hand it
-                // to the fence-keyed queue (#101/#102), which frees it once the
-                // copy's frame clears its fence. DeferredClear nulls the handle,
-                // so `staging`'s destructor here is a no-op.
-                staging.DeferredClear();
                 srcAccessMask = VK_ACCESS_TRANSFER_WRITE_BIT;
                 srcStageMask  = VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFER_BIT;
             }
@@ -387,6 +413,17 @@ namespace Crafter {
             vkInvalidateMappedMemoryRanges(Device::device, 1, &range);
         }
     
+        // Persistent per-frame-in-flight staging ring for the staged
+        // UploadDeviceLocal path (issue #120). Empty — and so holding zero
+        // host-visible allocations — until the first upload that actually
+        // stages, which only happens on no-/small-BAR hardware (ReBAR/UMA always
+        // takes the direct-write branch and never touches this, so the lazy ring
+        // keeps the change a no-op there). Sized to Device::framesInFlight so
+        // each in-flight frame copies from its own slot; each slot grows to a
+        // high-water mark via Resize and is reused across frames rather than
+        // reallocated every call — mirroring the TLAS instance/metadata reuse.
+        std::vector<VulkanBuffer<T, true>> stagingRing;
+
         VulkanBuffer(VulkanBuffer&& other) {
             buffer = other.buffer;
             memory = other.memory;
@@ -397,6 +434,7 @@ namespace Crafter {
             memoryPropertyFlagsChosen = other.memoryPropertyFlagsChosen;
             other.buffer = VK_NULL_HANDLE;
             address = other.address;
+            stagingRing = std::move(other.stagingRing);
             if constexpr(Mapped) {
                 VulkanBufferMappedConditional<T, true>::value = other.VulkanBufferMappedConditional<T, true>::value;
             }