Erasing texture from memory

Sasa · August 16, 2007, 8:46pm

how do you erase a texture from memory ?

i'm always loading new textures and at some point i don't have any memory left, how do i delete the old ones ?

theprism · August 16, 2007, 9:29pm

You may want to implement your own TextureManager, or in the least double index the cahcing so you can call TextureManager.releaseTexture

Sasa · August 17, 2007, 9:11am

thanks.

Momoko_Fan · August 17, 2007, 2:21pm

TextureState.delete() for deleting from GL memory, TextureManager.releaseTexture() for deleting from TextureManager cache.

Sasa · August 18, 2007, 7:17am

deleting from TextureManager cache also deletes from GL memory right ?

renanse · August 18, 2007, 1:12pm

No. You can release from the texturemanager's cache and yet still be using it in your application, so it does not force a delete.

Sasa · August 18, 2007, 9:13pm

so if you create a texture and delete it from TextureManager catch after asigning it to something. The texture will be released from GL memory as soon as nothing is using it ?

all those textures are stored in graphics card memory right ? would it be much slower if they move to RAM ?