Rendering sprays in menu eats absurd amounts of vram

[LegacyValken]

Noticed this when steam recording overlay was saying I was using 8GB of vram, and then started to toy around and see what I could do that can increase vram usage in general. I get gmod being single threaded and being built upon old source engine, but respectfully why is my Vram going from 2 - 3GB all the way up to 6GB just from rendering and loading sprays?

Not sure if this is just a linux thing since I'm running EndeavourOS and maybe it's being weird with proton, but I want to say this happens on windows too. Would need another person to test this.

https://files.catbox.moe/c2w5mi.mp4 - Video

[PYROTEKNIK]

how many sprays do you have in your list?

[LegacyValken]

Checked recently and stopped counting once I reached 150+ sprays and vram toppled over 9GB, It's easy to assume there is at least 300+ sprays in my list.

As per the video, this occurs when the sprays are being rendered for the first time and the vram is being eaten up by these images. Regardless of mature sprays on. The vram is still eaten up even if the window is closed, I assume due to the images being cached in memory.

You could argue that if the images are a high enough resolution that it could eat into the vram, but I don't know how it's eating up literal gigabytes of vram with so many images?

[LegacyValken]

https://i.imgur.com/j05TNUd.mp4

Did another quick test, 50 sprays being loaded eats round bout 1.5GB of VRAM. No idea why this happens and want to know if this is just a weird quirky linux issue, or if it's a windows problem too.