Drawing to large bitmap with OpenGL

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Hi,
I have a question about drawing to large bitmap, something similar to 10k x 10k, what was asked in this thread 15 years ago:

Something new in this regard?

In particular, we are using OpenGL, and when a device context is drawing to Window (flag PFD_DRAW_TO_WINDOW in dwFlags, pixel format), glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE returns 16384 size.
But when the context is drawing to Bitmap (flag PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP in pixel format), glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE returns only 1024 size.

Or is there some other reason for this GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE difference?

Thank you!

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As of OpenGL 4.6, GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE, GL_MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE, GL_MAX_FRAMEBUFFER_WIDTH and GL_MAX_FRAMEBUFFER_HEIGHT must all be at least 16384.

[QUOTE=Marcin95777;1293008]In particular, we are using OpenGL, and when a device context is drawing to Window (flag PFD_DRAW_TO_WINDOW in dwFlags, pixel format), glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE returns 16384 size.
But when the context is drawing to Bitmap (flag PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP in pixel format), glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE returns only 1024 size.

Or is there some other reason for this GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE difference?
[/QUOTE]
I suspect that PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP is using the built-in OpenGL 1.1 software renderer.

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[QUOTE=GClements;1293011]
I suspect that PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP is using the built-in OpenGL 1.1 software renderer.[/QUOTE]

Yes, that seems to be the case. And this is probably, because we take device context from System.Graphics

Would there be any way of “cheating” the openGL into using better renderer, despite having PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP flag?

I was also looking into other solution, and there is maybe one on stackoverflow:

however, it would require significant changes to our code, which I am trying to avoid.

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And their answer is still valid 15 years later. Use a tile rendering system and split your bitmap into 1024x1024 blocks.