I have a serious memory leak (around 2MB wafter exiting the programm) and I pinpointed it to me using textures. I load them with D3DXCreateTextureFromFile( m_pd3dDevice, strTextureSource, &m_pTexture); at the beginning, use SetTexture( 0, NULL) after using them while rendering and set m_pTexture = NULL before exiting the programm. Should I release m_pTexture? (if yes, how? m_pTexture->release() doesn''t seem to exist:\ I tried to delete( m_pTexture) but of course it only gift me with an access violation. Any help?

m_pTexture->Release()?

Sorry .. forgot to say what type the variables were ...

LPDIRECT3DDEVICE8 d3dDevice
char* TextureSource
LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE8 m_pTexture

I thought DX8 Textures might be similar to vertex buffers and that you had to release them. Being desperate to find a way to close the leak I really tried a lot of nutty things (none of which worked by the way)


[edited by - Sammy70 on March 30, 2002 10:06:27 AM]

Just ~solved~ my problem. It seems like my DX setup is completely screwed. After increasing the debug level of DirectX I''m getting DDHELP crashs on KERNEL32 everytime I try to run any DX programm. I let the programm run in debugger mode on another computer and didn''t get any memory leak at all.

Oh well ... A fresh Windows installation was due I guess