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Re:I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixe... by LeonM on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:44AM (#19190539)
I tried opening the image, but it made my entire laptop unresponsive[1]. So let's hope the graphics manufacturers catch up with the pixel trent before those 8K monitors become mainstream.

[1] On Chrome for MacOS. Granted my macbook is a couple years old, and the Apple graphics drivers are garbage.

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Re:I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixe... by Quoh3veB on Monday February 18, 2019 @10:00AM (#19191043)
Try firefox, it has an integrated decoder-downscaler, i.e. it never has to keep the full-size image in memory before downscaling to the target resolution. But that does not help if you zoom to 1:1.
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Re:I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixe... by newaccoutnas on Monday February 18, 2019 @01:18PM (#19192791)
My laptop is very much bog standard, but gimp had no problem loading it. Generally this may more come down to software implementation, rather than drivers
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Re:I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixe... by jolmg on Monday February 18, 2019 @11:44AM (#19191945)
I don't have too great a desktop (i5 from more than 4 years ago (launch date was apparently 2011) and 16 gigs with more than half already used, no graphics card) and I could open the 291M file just fine in viewnior.
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Re:I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixe... by lrem on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:46PM (#19195552)
I was able to zoom in on the full resolution. Granted, it wasn't snappy, but not unbearable either. I'm on a 2013 13" retina and current Chrome.
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Re:I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixe... by givinguflac on Monday February 18, 2019 @09:04AM (#19190621)
If you have an nvidia card in your Mac, they make drivers available which work well.
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Re:I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixe... by LeonM on Monday February 18, 2019 @11:40AM (#19191903)
I do have an nvidia card, but since MacOS 10.14 the nvidia driver manager reports that my driver (387.10.10.10.40.105) is not compatible with my OS, and it also reports that there are no newer drivers available when using the update function. So I'm currently back at the default Apple driver.

I have ran the nvidia driver before MacOS 10.14, and it did feel slightly faster than the driver supplied by Apple. I doubt if it will improve opening an 8K*8K image in a browser though...

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