# Texture buffer size error
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [May 12, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484 "2022-05-12T15:29:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@brandonfosso](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/brandonfosso)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/1 "2022-05-12T15:29:31Z")
Hey VTK community,
Ubuntu:18.04
python: 3.9.12
vtk: 9.1.0
I am rendering a large mesh and am getting the following error:
`vtkTextureObject.cxx:1025 ERR| vtkTextureObject (0x55c39d370ab0): Attempt to use a texture buffer exceeding your hardware's limits. This can happen when trying to color by cell data with a large dataset. Hardware limit is 65536 values while 321512 was requested.`
Googling, this seems to seems to be related to Mesa OpenGL. I tried updating those without any change to the error.
Has anybody seen this before or know what to do? Can one turn texturing off in VTK?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@sankhesh](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/sankhesh)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/2 "2022-05-14T00:29:36Z")
As the error states, this is because the color map is exceeding the maximum texture size that your GPU driver can allocate. To disable color mapping, do something like `mapper->SetScalarVisibility(false)` in your pipeline.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/3 "2022-05-15T23:50:01Z")
Note that this is caused by an artificially low limit in mesa has been drastically increased in more recent mesa with this merge request: [llvmpipe: increase PIPE\_CAP\_MAX\_TEXTURE\_BUFFER\_SIZE value (!9750) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa · GitLab](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/9750)
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### Author:  [@brandonfosso](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/brandonfosso)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/4 "2022-05-16T14:37:44Z")
Thanks for responding Sankhesh. I am intentionally coloring the scalars for this figure so I need to leave that on.
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### Author:  [@brandonfosso](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/brandonfosso)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/5 "2022-05-16T14:39:35Z")
Thanks for responding Cory. It sounds like I just need wait for the fix to make it downstream.
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### Author:  [@Naga\_rohith\_Reddybat](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Naga_rohith_Reddybat)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/6 "2024-08-08T17:43:45Z")
I am still getting this issue, Any fix for this
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/7 "2024-08-10T13:41:41Z")
What version of VTK are you using? What version of mesa?
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### Author:  [@Naga\_rohith\_Reddybat](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Naga_rohith_Reddybat)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/8 "2024-08-10T13:53:21Z")
Vtk 9.1.0 python 3.9.16
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/9 "2024-08-10T14:23:22Z")
If you are still seeing the error, then your version of mesa is likely older than the one with the fix.
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### Author:  [@Naga\_rohith\_Reddybat](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Naga_rohith_Reddybat)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/10 "2024-08-10T14:30:53Z")
Okok Can you tell me the mesa version which has the fixed code
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/11 "2024-08-10T16:44:36Z")
21.1 and later.
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### Author:  [@Naga\_rohith\_Reddybat](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Naga_rohith_Reddybat)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/texture-buffer-size-error/8484/12 "2024-08-10T16:51:23Z")
Ok will try that, Thanks