Hi!

I'm writing a directx 9 renderer and I've run into this problem: when a IDirect3D9Texture9 object is bound to an ID3DXEffect with SetTexture and the context is lost after a device reset, I can't release the texture successfully. Some unreleased memory block still stay and I can't reset the device. However, if I set the texture to NULL, I'm able to release it and everything works fine.

Is this a known thing, or I'm doing something horrible?

Thanks in advance!

I forgot to mention that the texture is a render target. I've the same problem with normal 2D textures and cube maps.

ID3DXEffect::SetTexture() increases the reference count of any texture set on it, so yes - you'll need to set the texture to NULL if you want to Release() it.

EDIT: You should also be calling ID3DXEffect::OnLostDevice() and ID3DXEffect::OnResetDevice(), which probably internally sets the textures to NULL anyway.