How do I reduce tile background size or rescale? Game crashes because sprite bigger than 4096 pixel

Tiled background is the way to go, and preferred practice. Have you tried reducing the width to 4096 as suggested by Construct?

oosyrag I did try that, and yeah it works. The game is intended to be an android app, and normal playing works. But let's say the player goes to another app to do something very quickly, like reply in a messaging app. When going back to the game, the app freezes and crashes.

I have 2 levels so far, level one is 480 x 1708 which works flawlessly, and I experimented with 480 x 2562. Which crashes upon going to do something else on the phone.

Level 3 is even bigger at 480 x 4270 which doesn't work.

That's why I'm wondering if I can reduce the pixel size while retaining the same general image, of the ... image.

Because the Tiled Background scales to the size of the image, which i set to be the 9:16 screen size or 480 x 854. I can't make it smaller, since it won't fit the screen.

Are you painting the entire level inside the specified width of a tiled background? That doesn't do anything, the point of a tiled background is that it's supposed to tile and repeat with little to no overhead, so you can have an infinitely wide tiled background as long as the repeating texture is less than 4096.

oosyrag Yes I'm painting the level within the width of the tiled background. The game is about dodging and catching bullet objects, so the tiled background, serves as a vista that endlessly repeats.

I tried with moving sprites for background management, but there was always a small white gap that I couldn't figure out how to remove, so I went with the Tiled Backgrounds instead.

The problem is now that the texture size is too big. I guess I need to go back to the sprite method : (

Btw, another random question. When I started using construct, I used to get warnings about not going beyond 2048 pixels for sprites and textures. Now 4096 is the limit.

Is it still recommended to go below the 2048 limit or going in-between 2048 and 4096 is okay?

Several years ago there were still a few percent of devices in use that only supported a maximum texture size of 2048, so going over that could cause issues on those devices. However by now basically all those devices have fallen out of use and 4096 can now be relied upon to work universally, and we updated Construct accordingly. In several more years we might be able to go to 8192 or 16384, but it depends how much longer devices that only support 4096 remain in use.