draw_texture_flush();
Returns: N/A
With this function you can remove all textures from video
memory, and they will then be reloaded on first use. This is the
only effective way to manage video memory when you have multiple
texture pages for a game, and you should flush the texture memory
between levels on your game and organise the graphics using the
texture group feature to ensure that the minimum number of textures
are used.
It is worth noting that this function works as described on all
target platforms except for Windows (YYC and standard),
where by default all textures will always be loaded into
memory on start-up. You can, however, change this behaviour from
the Global Game Settings and have Windows behave the same as
all other target platforms.
NOTE: There is a performance hit as the texture is
uploaded to texture memory on most devices, so the best idea is to
do a dummy render of the required graphics at the start of a level
to avoid any stalls. You would only need to render a single graphic
from each texture page to ensure that texture is loaded, and you
should be aware that texture groups can have more than one texture
page which means that each load will cause a stall.
draw_texture_flush();
The above code flushes the video memory of texture data, and would probably be placed in the create event of the first instance of an object placed in the room.