diff --git a/crates/xenia-app/src/main.rs b/crates/xenia-app/src/main.rs
index 1b14bbc..004dad6 100644
--- a/crates/xenia-app/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/xenia-app/src/main.rs
@@ -2016,6 +2016,24 @@ fn coord_idle_advance(
     shutdown: &Option<std::sync::Arc<std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool>>,
     stats: &ExecStats,
 ) -> RoundCtl {
+    // Path β (iterate-2.BE follow-up): when the scheduler has no Ready
+    // threads, `coord_pre_round`'s instruction-count vsync ticker stops
+    // advancing (instruction_count is frozen). That starves the
+    // host-driven graphics ISR dispatcher: queue stays empty, no
+    // deliveries occur, and the very stall we're trying to break out of
+    // gets worse. Tick vsync from wallclock here unconditionally — it's
+    // a host-clock read, independent of instruction count, and the
+    // dispatcher in the outer loop will drain whatever we queue on the
+    // next pass. Mirrors the `--parallel` ticker choice in
+    // `coord_pre_round` (`tick_vsync_wallclock` branch).
+    if kernel.interrupts.tick_vsync_wallclock() {
+        use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
+        let mmio = kernel.gpu.mmio();
+        let prev = mmio.d1mode_vblank_vline_status.load(Ordering::Relaxed);
+        mmio.d1mode_vblank_vline_status
+            .store(prev | 0x1, Ordering::Relaxed);
+    }
+
     let next_timer = kernel.earliest_timer_deadline();
     let next_wait = kernel.scheduler.earliest_wait_deadline();
     let target = match (next_timer, next_wait) {