Texture Streaming Pool Over Budget, after adding a bunch of crosshair textures to project. NOT IN LEVEL. UE 4.26

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I added a bunch of crosshairs (2000+) of varying resolutions to the project so that I have a library to play around with but afterwards, I started getting the “Texture Streaming Over Budget” warning

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(stat streaming, stat streamingOverview)

But I’m not using any of these textures in my level, so why are they being loaded?

I used “listtextures nonstreaming” to view which nonstreaming textures are being loaded
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It seems a good majority of the textures being loaded are the crosshairs, which don’t even exist in the level.

Is there something I’m doing wrong? How can I fix this?

Using UE 4.26

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bump?

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As much as I am skeptical of ChatGPT’s responses. It was pretty spot on when it said that textures marked as “Never Stream” will be preloaded no matter what.

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Deleting those textures fixed the warning. Though still don’t understand if this is normal behavior for the engine or a bug since the texture is not being used in level then what’s the point of loading it? Does that mean I can’t keep any assets in my project that I am not actively using? That’d be a bummer