I have A8 installed on both my computers so I don't have one that has never had A8 installed.

Anyway, the test with A8 withought shift key remain stable at:

Holding the shift key have a slight variation but as you said goes back down and dosn't build up:


Thanks alot for going through the trouble of recreating your original tests!
And thanks for clarifying about the a7/a8 difference, I had no idea this issue had been fixed, and am sooo glad I upgraded to a8 a few months ago!
When I saw the old thread I was still using A7 and have always been working around that problem ever since. I never actually use wed in any of my recent concepts, all of them load things by code: models, terrains, heigtmaps, etc... With only one level_load(NULL) at the start, so I had this problem in every single project.
It was just recently (I'm incorporating a sprite based minecraft idea to remove un-needed faces to increase world size even further and improve performance) that I decided to test if the problem also affected sprites, I was confused when it didnt so I re-tested models (thus this thread, reviving an old topic).

Thankyou EvilSOB, Uhrwerk, and thankyou A8! This makes my life sooo much easier from now on! And knowing ent_clone isn't a problem either is great news too! One less thing to worry about in my crazy projects!

Bye bye my dear "entity recycler", you were a pain in the a$$ to work with and will NOT be missed! R.I.P.