NP++ Dedicated GPU memory spiking because of this plugin

[Y]

Talking about this here: notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#8352

[dail8859]

What do you have in your startup script?

[Y]

-- Startup script
-- Changes will take effect once Notepad++ is restarted

editor1.Technology = SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITE
editor2.Technology = SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITE

[dail8859]

Have you tried removing those?

Is there a simple way to reproduce this issue?

[Y]

Commenting out those calls seem to resolve the issue.

[dail8859]

Then it isnt a problem with this plugin. All that does is set a flag on the two Scintilla instances within Notepad++. Your best option would be to open an issue with the Scintilla project.

[Y]

Thanks. I set this a few years ago and forgot about it. I think I was trying to make the fonts render better.

[dail8859]

Most likely the only reason someone would use this flag is to support ligatures (e.g. Fira Code font, etc)

[Y]

There must be a memory leak in the way the implement it. If i load really big files, the value keeps going up and never releases.

[dail8859]

Again your best option is to report this to the Scintilla project as I have no clue how it actually implements the text rendering.