When I load a simple png image into a file node in cops in an empty project… the usage maxes out my 64 gb ram. I have no clue what is going on, I never had this problem in all of my years using Houdini.

Any ideas? Thanks!

edit: I've tried multiple versions, and multiple files. My ram floods and my cpu maxes, and Houdini becomes unresponsive for a few minutes for seemingly no reason. Please help!

I think I “sort of” figured it out. For some reason my viewport says there are 66 MILLION points, I assume the number comes from the 8192x8192 scale… but why is it turning a simple image into points in the viewport? I don't remember this behavior before.