MATLAB closes when displaying large TIFF image with "geoshow"

When I try to display a large TIFF image (21,600 x 43200) using "geoshow", MATLAB shuts down after 5 minutes and I get rerouted to the following page,

     <https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3553>

telling me the OpenGL has made a request "for more GPU memory than is available." I have already tried updating my drivers, but that didn't fix the problem. What should I try next?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

Since OpenGL has made a request "for more GPU memory than is available", your image seems to be too large for your graphics driver to handle. If updating the driver does not resolve the issue, try making your image smaller using the "imresize" function:

     <https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/imresize.html>

The "geoshow" function should now display your image successfully, but the graphics will lag a bit. To decrease the lag, try lowering the scale factor (second input to "imresize") further.

 If you can not afford to resize the image, you will likely need a GPU with more memory to handle this application.