diff --git a/nx2navi.ini.example b/nx2navi.ini.example
index efb182bb..c230ad56 100644
--- a/nx2navi.ini.example
+++ b/nx2navi.ini.example
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@
 # While the video memory in use is over tex_vram_pressure percent of the budget, the pipelines the game built ahead
 # of play and no draw has used yet are given back, a few hundred every 5 seconds: on a card short of video memory they
 # are what costs least to lose, and a draw that needs one later builds it again from the pipeline cache. 0: every
-# pipeline stays for the run, as before 0.10. Read at start.
+# pipeline stays for the run, as before 0.10; tex_vram_pressure = 0 turns this off too. Read at start.
 # pipe_release = 1
 # Low-end GPU mode (experimental; also in the settings menu's Game tab). For older graphics cards, and ones short of
 # video memory: 1 turns on the settings written for them and measured on a Radeon RX 580, for every key below that
diff --git a/runtime/vk_pipeline.c b/runtime/vk_pipeline.c
index ad445b8f..6bfa330d 100644
--- a/runtime/vk_pipeline.c
+++ b/runtime/vk_pipeline.c
@@ -5079,7 +5079,8 @@ static void fast_retire(Pipe *p) {
 // The use counts the free space inside the allocator's blocks as free, as the texture evictions do (vk_texture.c
 // sweep_pressure): the driver's figure (vk_mem_vram) counts it as used, so with free blocks it could stay over the line
 // while pipelines went, and every pass would give back another batch until no unused pipeline was left.
-// NX2NAVI_PIPE_RELEASE=0 keeps every pipeline for the run, as before 0.10.0.
+// NX2NAVI_PIPE_RELEASE=0 keeps every pipeline for the run, as before 0.10.0, and so does NX2NAVI_TEX_VRAM_PRESSURE=0,
+// which keeps the textures from giving way for video memory.
 #define RELEASE_EVERY_MS 5000
 #define RELEASE_BATCH 256
 #define RELEASE_DRAIN 64   // destroyed per autosave tick (500 ms) at most: faster than RELEASE_BATCH per RELEASE_EVERY_MS
@@ -5118,8 +5119,13 @@ static void pressure_release(uint64_t now) {
     if (on < 0) {
         on = cfg_bool("NX2NAVI_PIPE_RELEASE");
         pct = cfg_int("NX2NAVI_TEX_VRAM_PRESSURE");
-        if (pct <= 0 || pct > 100) pct = 80;
+        if (pct < 0 || pct > 100) pct = 80;
         if (!on) rt_log("vk_pipeline: every pipeline stays for the run, also while video memory is short (NX2NAVI_PIPE_RELEASE=0)");
+        else if (!pct) {   // 0 turns the textures' giving way off (vk_texture.c sweep_pressure): the pipelines' too
+            on = 0;
+            rt_log("vk_pipeline: every pipeline stays for the run, also while video memory is short "
+                   "(NX2NAVI_TEX_VRAM_PRESSURE=0)");
+        }
     }
     if (!on || now - last < RELEASE_EVERY_MS) return;
     last = now;