WebGL and memory: Context lost

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There are two main solutions for this:

One is here and should be incorporated in version 2020.2

PsychoJS platform version 2020.1 - Memory Leak in Visual Stimulus Setters

There is a memory leak in PsychoJS platform version 2020.1 caused by the stimulus setters and the subsequent call to the _updateIfNeeded() not releasing the resources of the attached _pixi object. I confirmed and fixed this issue for both TextStim and ImageStim but the same issue is very likely also present for other visual components (I did not check this). I created two public demo experiments containing only a text stimulus that updates its text content every frame (the actual content stays …

The other is ensuring that you don’t have any components set to update every frame and only set stimuli in Each Frame code components when the variable has actually changed.