Re: [pygame] Out of memory loading very large image

[Peter Finlayson <frnknstn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the best case, loading the raw data out of a 41141 x 3317 pixel image will use ~409 MB of memory. In practice, it 
will use a lot more than that for various reasons. For example, creating an image of that size in GIMP will use ~1.5 GB 
of memory.

How much memory do you have in your system?

Regards,
Peter Finlayson


On 29/09/2016 10:54, shortcipher wrote:
> I get "pygame.error Out of memory" on pygame.image.load() of a 55.1 MB JPG
> with 41141 x 3317 pixels.
> What is the biggest image pygame can load?
> Is there any way of allocating more memory so that this image can be loaded?
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