i have already made the game background and just put it in a uiimagview. it works on the simulater but when i put it on my phone it turns the background i made black, and when i try and move my character it makes multiples of them. Can anyone explain to me the proper way to make a big game background that is bigger than the screen?
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Chris

It sounds like you might be running out of memory or trying to store files where you can not access them. What is your current memory usage?

ok i feel really dumb asking but how can i tell how much my memory usage is? also is it ok to load a picture that goes out of the iPhones bounds, because my picture is about 9000 pixels? If there is an easier and more efficient way can you tell me because i have everything working on the simulater, but when i get to the iphone it stops working!
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Cam

Max texture size on iPhone is 1024 x 1024, as stated in the iPhone developer guide. You're getting the multiple drawings because you aren't clearing the color buffer, which is perfectly acceptable and even desireable, but you aren't drawing an image over the background since it was rejected because of size constraint.

Hey thanks, so are there other ways of creating backgrounds that are bigger than 1024x1024 or do I need to create multiple uiimageviews?

I'd try the multiple imageView route. Also, be sure to save RAM by not loading images that are off-screen, and thus not visible.

Thanks that works great but it is kind of complicated oh well. Really appreciate the help. Oh and by the way i am working on this game and my goal is to do with out open gl or quartz 2-D.
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Cam