I am trying to load an ~ 1 GB raster of a county in Oklahoma that I downloaded from USGS data gateway (.sid). It is version 10.1 of ArcScence and I am using a 64 bit Windows 7 laptop. The best I can get after 20 minutes of waiting is ~40 % completion of the raster loaded and then Arc seems to give up. I tried looking up this situation and it seems like 2 GB is the limit. I changed View>View Settings to 2D, I thought maybe 3D was causing the trouble, but it's still not loading. Any help on getting the raster to load would be appreciated.
John
John