GameMaker What creates new textures?

[Hello1423]

It seemed like I had a pretty severe memory leak, so I checked the debugger and after about a minute it's listing 2000 textures and growing. Only one of these textures has a given size (1.34 MB), but is this insane increase in the number of textures the memory leak (or at least part of it)? What creates new textures?

After reaching 1244 textures, the debugger lists a total memory use of 2683.17 MB, so I would guess that the textures aren't enough to cause that much damage, unless the reason that it doesn't list a size for almost all of the textures is because those are bigger files and they are just taking longer to scan.

 

[Bart]

There are only a few ways to create new textures, and they're the result of adding sprites or surfaces.
Adding fonts creates a texture page as well, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Simon Gust]

- creating a surface
- having a miniature texture page size
- marking every sprite use for 3D
- not deleting sprite_add() / background_add()
- not freeing surfaces but losing the refrence.
- increasing the texture border width to infinity.

 

[Hello1423]

Thanks for the info!