LÖVE currently doesn't catch the error when the graphics driver fails to load big images. Your graphics card/driver seems to be limited to 1024x1024 textures. It may be higher, but LÖVE will pad it to 2048 if the card doesn't support non-power-of-two textures and surely go over it. You'll have to s...

when i run the code i get the following:

here it is

Nixola wrote:Can you upload the .love here?

.love? which file do you mean? Aren't those for linux? I'm running windows.

nevon wrote:Sounds like Power-of-Two Syndrome.

I'm running version 0.8.0 so that shouldn't be the problem.

Starting version 0.8.0, all images are auto-padded on systems that need it, this means we can forget about all this madness and celebrate.

I am doing something very simple but it does not seem to work. I am trying to load an image and display it on the screen. But all i get is a white block the size of the image. Smaller images do work but this big image does not. It don't think it is my graphics card as i have a 1 gb GEFORCE GT 540M. ...