diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 146e8ba..81fd490 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ The full engine legitimately uses classic `for`, `while`, and `do...while`
 loops. Their compatibility flags are scoped to `examples/doom-gpl/goccia.json`;
 the bindings and smaller MIT examples do not enable them. The initial
 GocciaScript 0.10.0 implementation rendered at roughly 3 FPS on an Apple M1
-Max. Caching the framebuffer length and using the packed-palette display path
-raised the profiled steady-state estimate to 4.71 FPS, so it is genuine but not
-yet real-time.
+Max. The packed-palette fallback reaches 4.97 FPS, and presenting the indexed
+framebuffer through a palette-texture shader reaches 6.32 FPS in controlled
+steady-state measurements. It is genuine but not yet real-time.
 
 ## Bunnymark performance
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/application-performance.md b/benchmarks/application-performance.md
index 0466833..779367d 100644
--- a/benchmarks/application-performance.md
+++ b/benchmarks/application-performance.md
@@ -45,7 +45,20 @@ workload, so the reproduced candidate reduces end-to-end execution time by
 about 32%. This includes startup and is separate from the profiler's 4.71 FPS
 steady-state estimate.
 
-The deterministic frame-8 smoke screenshot has zero changed pixels below the
-FPS overlay compared with the retained byte-wise conversion baseline. The
-focused palette test also checks all 256 palette entries, with 1,024 byte-level
-assertions in each of interpreter and bytecode modes.
+The indexed-texture shader was measured in five paired runs against that packed
+RGBA fallback, alternating path order. Each run discarded 12 warm-up frames and
+timed the next 24 frames with raylib's monotonic clock, for 120 measured frames
+per path. The normal FPS overlay and periodic garbage collections remained
+enabled.
+
+| Display path | Mean frame time | Mean FPS | FPS range | Sample SD |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| packed RGBA fallback | 201.22 ms | 4.97 | 4.96-5.00 | 0.016 |
+| indexed-texture shader | 158.33 ms | 6.32 | 6.28-6.35 | 0.028 |
+
+The shader reduces whole-frame time by 21.31% and raises steady-state
+performance by 1.27x for this stationary early-E1M1 scene. The deterministic
+frame-8 shader and fallback screenshots are byte-identical when only the live
+FPS overlay is disabled. The focused palette test checks all 256 entries in all
+14 palette slots with 28,672 assertions in each of interpreter and bytecode
+modes.
diff --git a/examples/doom-gpl/Makefile b/examples/doom-gpl/Makefile
index 0e12a68..a5ac672 100644
--- a/examples/doom-gpl/Makefile
+++ b/examples/doom-gpl/Makefile
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ verify-source: fetch
 	@test ! -e "$(UPSTREAM_DIR)/DOOM-SHAREWARE.WAD"
 	@echo "Pure-JavaScript LinuxDoom source pin and GPL boundary verified."
 
-$(GENERATED_STAMP): verify-source prepare-port.mjs src/i_input.ts src/i_sound.ts src/i_video.ts
+$(GENERATED_STAMP): verify-source prepare-port.mjs src/i_input.ts src/i_sound.ts src/i_video.ts src/palette.ts
 	node prepare-port.mjs "$(UPSTREAM_DIR)" "$(GENERATED_DIR)"
 	touch "$@"
 
diff --git a/examples/doom-gpl/README.md b/examples/doom-gpl/README.md
index 113b5b4..8997791 100644
--- a/examples/doom-gpl/README.md
+++ b/examples/doom-gpl/README.md
@@ -88,10 +88,12 @@ make test-palette
 make smoke
 ```
 
-`make test-palette` checks the packed palette conversion against the original
-byte-wise RGBA result in both interpreter and bytecode modes. The palette and
-framebuffer use paired byte and 32-bit views, so the copied bytes remain RGBA
-on either little- or big-endian hosts.
+`make test-palette` checks all 256 palette indices across all 14 DOOM
+`PLAYPAL` slots against the packed RGBA fallback in both interpreter and
+bytecode modes. The palette and fallback framebuffer use paired byte and
+32-bit views, so the copied bytes remain RGBA on either little- or big-endian
+hosts. `make smoke` uses the indexed-texture shader when available and falls
+back to the packed RGBA display path if shader setup fails.
 
 `make smoke` runs deterministic engine frames against cached Freedoom data and
 writes `.cache/doom-goccia-smoke.png`. The current upstream port claims vanilla
diff --git a/examples/doom-gpl/src/i_video.ts b/examples/doom-gpl/src/i_video.ts
index 5444622..da1f3e4 100644
--- a/examples/doom-gpl/src/i_video.ts
+++ b/examples/doom-gpl/src/i_video.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import {
   BLACK,
   BeginDrawing,
   BeginMode2D,
+  BeginShaderMode,
   Camera2D,
   ClearBackground,
   CloseWindow,
@@ -11,19 +12,29 @@ import {
   DrawTexture,
   EndDrawing,
   EndMode2D,
+  EndShaderMode,
   GenImageColor,
+  GetShaderLocation,
+  ImageFormat,
   InitWindow,
+  IsShaderValid,
+  IsTextureValid,
+  LoadShaderFromMemory,
   LoadTextureFromImage,
-  RAYWHITE,
+  PIXELFORMAT_UNCOMPRESSED_GRAYSCALE,
+  PIXELFORMAT_UNCOMPRESSED_R8G8B8A8,
+  SetShaderValueTexture,
   SetExitKey,
   SetTargetFPS,
   SetTextureFilter,
   SetWindowTitle,
   TEXTURE_FILTER_POINT,
   UnloadImage,
+  UnloadShader,
   UnloadTexture,
   UpdateTexture,
   Vector2,
+  WHITE,
   closeRaylib,
 } from "../../../bindings/raylib.ts";
 import {
@@ -38,6 +49,33 @@ const rgba = new Uint8Array(sourceWidth * sourceHeight * 4);
 const rgba32 = new Uint32Array(rgba.buffer);
 const packedPaletteBytes = new Uint8Array(256 * 4);
 const packedPalette = new Uint32Array(packedPaletteBytes.buffer);
+const forceRgbaFallback =
+  globalThis.DOOM_EXAMPLE_DISPLAY_PATH === "rgba";
+const showFps = globalThis.DOOM_EXAMPLE_SHOW_FPS !== false;
+const vertexShaderSource = `#version 330
+in vec3 vertexPosition;
+in vec2 vertexTexCoord;
+in vec4 vertexColor;
+out vec2 fragTexCoord;
+out vec4 fragColor;
+uniform mat4 mvp;
+void main() {
+  fragTexCoord = vertexTexCoord;
+  fragColor = vertexColor;
+  gl_Position = mvp*vec4(vertexPosition, 1.0);
+}`;
+const fragmentShaderSource = `#version 330
+in vec2 fragTexCoord;
+in vec4 fragColor;
+out vec4 finalColor;
+uniform sampler2D texture0;
+uniform sampler2D paletteTexture;
+uniform vec4 colDiffuse;
+void main() {
+  float paletteIndex = floor(texture(texture0, fragTexCoord).r*255.0 + 0.5);
+  vec2 paletteCoord = vec2((paletteIndex + 0.5)/256.0, 0.5);
+  finalColor = texture(paletteTexture, paletteCoord)*colDiffuse*fragColor;
+}`;
 const camera = Camera2D.create({
   offset: Vector2.create({ x: 0, y: 0 }),
   target: Vector2.create({ x: 0, y: 0 }),
@@ -49,8 +87,13 @@ let video = null;
 let playpal = null;
 let paletteIndex = 0;
 let packedPaletteIndex = -1;
-let image = null;
-let texture = null;
+let uploadedPaletteIndex = -1;
+let indexedTexture = null;
+let paletteTexture = null;
+let rgbaTexture = null;
+let shader = null;
+let paletteLocation = -1;
+let indexedShaderActive = false;
 let initialized = false;
 
 const refreshPackedPalette = (): void => {
@@ -59,6 +102,70 @@ const refreshPackedPalette = (): void => {
   packedPaletteIndex = paletteIndex;
 };
 
+const createTexture = (
+  width: number,
+  height: number,
+  format: number,
+) => {
+  const image = GenImageColor(width, height, BLACK);
+  if (format !== PIXELFORMAT_UNCOMPRESSED_R8G8B8A8) {
+    ImageFormat(image, format);
+  }
+  const created = LoadTextureFromImage(image);
+  UnloadImage(image);
+  SetTextureFilter(created, TEXTURE_FILTER_POINT);
+  return created;
+};
+
+const unloadTexture = (texture): void => {
+  if (texture !== null && IsTextureValid(texture)) UnloadTexture(texture);
+};
+
+const initializeRgbaFallback = (): void => {
+  rgbaTexture = createTexture(
+    sourceWidth,
+    sourceHeight,
+    PIXELFORMAT_UNCOMPRESSED_R8G8B8A8,
+  );
+  indexedShaderActive = false;
+};
+
+const initializeIndexedShader = (): boolean => {
+  if (forceRgbaFallback) return false;
+
+  shader = LoadShaderFromMemory(vertexShaderSource, fragmentShaderSource);
+  if (!IsShaderValid(shader)) return false;
+
+  paletteLocation = GetShaderLocation(shader, "paletteTexture");
+  if (paletteLocation < 0) return false;
+
+  indexedTexture = createTexture(
+    sourceWidth,
+    sourceHeight,
+    PIXELFORMAT_UNCOMPRESSED_GRAYSCALE,
+  );
+  paletteTexture = createTexture(
+    256,
+    1,
+    PIXELFORMAT_UNCOMPRESSED_R8G8B8A8,
+  );
+
+  if (
+    !IsTextureValid(indexedTexture) ||
+    !IsTextureValid(paletteTexture)
+  ) {
+    unloadTexture(indexedTexture);
+    unloadTexture(paletteTexture);
+    indexedTexture = null;
+    paletteTexture = null;
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  uploadedPaletteIndex = -1;
+  indexedShaderActive = true;
+  return true;
+};
+
 const I_InitGraphics = (): void => {
   if (initialized) return;
   InitWindow(
@@ -68,17 +175,19 @@ const I_InitGraphics = (): void => {
   );
   SetExitKey(0);
   SetTargetFPS(35);
-  image = GenImageColor(sourceWidth, sourceHeight, BLACK);
-  texture = LoadTextureFromImage(image);
-  UnloadImage(image);
-  image = null;
-  SetTextureFilter(texture, TEXTURE_FILTER_POINT);
+  if (!initializeIndexedShader()) initializeRgbaFallback();
+  console.log(
+    `DOOM display path: ${
+      indexedShaderActive ? "indexed texture shader" : "RGBA fallback"
+    }`,
+  );
   initialized = true;
 };
 
 const I_RegisterPlaypal = (paletteBytes: Uint8Array): void => {
   playpal = paletteBytes;
   packedPaletteIndex = -1;
+  uploadedPaletteIndex = -1;
   refreshPackedPalette();
 };
 
@@ -89,22 +198,44 @@ const I_SetPalette = (nextPalette: number): void => {
 
 const I_FinishUpdate = (): void => {
   const indexed = video.screens[0];
-  expandIndexedFrame(indexed, packedPalette, rgba32);
 
-  UpdateTexture(texture, rgba);
+  if (indexedShaderActive) {
+    UpdateTexture(indexedTexture, indexed);
+    if (uploadedPaletteIndex !== packedPaletteIndex) {
+      UpdateTexture(paletteTexture, packedPaletteBytes);
+      uploadedPaletteIndex = packedPaletteIndex;
+    }
+  } else {
+    expandIndexedFrame(indexed, packedPalette, rgba32);
+    UpdateTexture(rgbaTexture, rgba);
+  }
+
   BeginDrawing();
   ClearBackground(BLACK);
   BeginMode2D(camera);
-  DrawTexture(texture, 0, 0, RAYWHITE);
+  if (indexedShaderActive) {
+    BeginShaderMode(shader);
+    SetShaderValueTexture(shader, paletteLocation, paletteTexture);
+    DrawTexture(indexedTexture, 0, 0, WHITE);
+    EndShaderMode();
+  } else {
+    DrawTexture(rgbaTexture, 0, 0, WHITE);
+  }
   EndMode2D();
-  DrawFPS(8, 8);
+  if (showFps) DrawFPS(8, 8);
   EndDrawing();
 };
 
 const I_ShutdownGraphics = (): void => {
   if (!initialized) return;
-  UnloadTexture(texture);
-  texture = null;
+  unloadTexture(indexedTexture);
+  unloadTexture(paletteTexture);
+  unloadTexture(rgbaTexture);
+  if (shader !== null && IsShaderValid(shader)) UnloadShader(shader);
+  indexedTexture = null;
+  paletteTexture = null;
+  rgbaTexture = null;
+  shader = null;
   CloseWindow();
   closeRaylib();
   initialized = false;
diff --git a/examples/doom-gpl/tests/palette.test.ts b/examples/doom-gpl/tests/palette.test.ts
index dbf63e9..7e2849b 100644
--- a/examples/doom-gpl/tests/palette.test.ts
+++ b/examples/doom-gpl/tests/palette.test.ts
@@ -5,35 +5,59 @@ import {
   packPaletteBytes,
 } from "../src/palette.ts";
 
+const paletteCount = 14;
+const colourCount = 256;
+
 describe("DOOM palette conversion", () => {
   test("matches the byte-wise RGBA reference for every palette entry", () => {
-    const playpal = new Uint8Array(2 * 768);
+    const playpal = new Uint8Array(paletteCount * colourCount * 3);
     for (let index = 0; index < playpal.length; index += 1) {
       playpal[index] = (index * 37 + 11) % 256;
     }
 
-    const indexed = new Uint8Array(256);
+    const indexed = new Uint8Array(colourCount);
     for (let index = 0; index < indexed.length; index += 1) {
       indexed[index] = index;
     }
 
-    const packedPaletteBytes = new Uint8Array(256 * 4);
+    const packedPaletteBytes = new Uint8Array(colourCount * 4);
     const packedPalette = new Uint32Array(packedPaletteBytes.buffer);
     const rgba = new Uint8Array(indexed.length * 4);
     const rgba32 = new Uint32Array(rgba.buffer);
 
-    packPaletteBytes(playpal, 1, packedPaletteBytes);
-    expandIndexedFrame(indexed, packedPalette, rgba32);
+    for (
+      let paletteIndex = 0;
+      paletteIndex < paletteCount;
+      paletteIndex += 1
+    ) {
+      packPaletteBytes(playpal, paletteIndex, packedPaletteBytes);
+      expandIndexedFrame(indexed, packedPalette, rgba32);
 
-    const paletteOffset = 768;
-    const pixelCount = indexed.length;
-    for (let index = 0; index < pixelCount; index += 1) {
-      const colourOffset = paletteOffset + indexed[index] * 3;
-      const pixelOffset = index * 4;
-      expect(rgba[pixelOffset]).toBe(playpal[colourOffset]);
-      expect(rgba[pixelOffset + 1]).toBe(playpal[colourOffset + 1]);
-      expect(rgba[pixelOffset + 2]).toBe(playpal[colourOffset + 2]);
-      expect(rgba[pixelOffset + 3]).toBe(255);
+      const paletteOffset = paletteIndex * colourCount * 3;
+      for (let index = 0; index < colourCount; index += 1) {
+        const colourOffset = paletteOffset + indexed[index] * 3;
+        const pixelOffset = index * 4;
+        expect(packedPaletteBytes[pixelOffset]).toBe(
+          playpal[colourOffset],
+        );
+        expect(packedPaletteBytes[pixelOffset + 1]).toBe(
+          playpal[colourOffset + 1],
+        );
+        expect(packedPaletteBytes[pixelOffset + 2]).toBe(
+          playpal[colourOffset + 2],
+        );
+        expect(packedPaletteBytes[pixelOffset + 3]).toBe(255);
+        expect(rgba[pixelOffset]).toBe(packedPaletteBytes[pixelOffset]);
+        expect(rgba[pixelOffset + 1]).toBe(
+          packedPaletteBytes[pixelOffset + 1],
+        );
+        expect(rgba[pixelOffset + 2]).toBe(
+          packedPaletteBytes[pixelOffset + 2],
+        );
+        expect(rgba[pixelOffset + 3]).toBe(
+          packedPaletteBytes[pixelOffset + 3],
+        );
+      }
     }
   });
 });