The image that is the map tiles is approximately 11,000 pixels wide. When I load it into SDL_Texture with software rendering, it works. When I use this, however, it does not:

screen=SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED | SDL_RENDERER_PRESENTVSYNC | SDL_RENDERER_SOFTWARE );

Thanks!

Thanks for the response.

I am using SDL without OpenGL, using SDL_RenderCopy to display graphics. Double buffering seems to be for OpenGL only: http://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_GL_SetAttribute#Remarks

Tiles render, but VSync doesn't work:

screen=SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, SDL_RENDERER_SOFTWARE );

Nothing renders (this should enable VSync alongside software rendering):

screen=SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, SDL_RENDERER_PRESENTVSYNC | SDL_RENDERER_SOFTWARE );

Everything renders but tiles (if using 2,000x8, the tiles render, but the 11,000x8 image is necessary for this project):

screen=SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, SDL_RENDERER_PRESENTVSYNC | SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED );

What I am asking:

How do I (a) enable VSync in SDL 2.0 with software rendering, or (b) how can I store the 11,000x8 pixels image as a texture in the GPU? It stores in ram properly because it renders with software rendering.

There is a texture size limit on GPUs. A common limit is 4096 x 4096. Break your image into smaller sections and it should work fine.

Create a blitter function for your image, and blit whatever parts you need into pixel arrays, then upload that to the gpu

It's also possible to upload the entire thing to the gpu, and fetch whatever parts of it you need, but that is an advanced topic for another day.

There is nothing wrong with just upload what you need (what you will be seeing).

I dont think you need this, but if you need a zoomed out view of your image, then that is something you can discuss with others int the Graphics Programming forum later on. However, since your image is 8 pixels in height, I don't see what good it would do.