What app can open TGA files on Windows 11? Paint, Photos and the LibreOffice app can't open it
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weedeewee wrote on 2025-12-28, 17:16:
Looks like I lost the avoid-foobar2k-and-irfanview-because-they-are-too-common belief.
Thanks!
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Irfanview is great. I have both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions installed, each with different options configured, and use one or another depending on circumstance.
Is this too much voodoo?
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leileilol wrote on 2025-12-29, 04:34:Paint Shop Pro 5
Hah! I was just going to post Paint Shop Pro 7. I've been using that (patched to 7.04) for over 20 years. It will open any format that existed back then and it is lightning fast for doing quick work with images.
If you google Paint Shop Pro 7.04 you'll figure out how\where to get it.
Errius wrote on 2025-12-28, 20:10:Irfanview is great. I have both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions installed, each with different options configured, and use one or another depending on circumstance.
Also XnView/XnViewMP/nconvert. Xnview and XnViewMP are file viewers, in case you don't like IrfanView; nconvert is a command line tool to manipulate images (resize, convert, crop...). You can perform almost all of those actions on XnView UI, but nconvert is better when dealing with many files.
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Why isn't TGA supported by the major default image viewers? I recall it was quite popular in the pre-2000 era
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TGA was a technically better format than BMP for supporting RLE and 32-bit color images and not being hard to read/write, it's more popular as a game engine texture format than a general image format though. In the end, web browsers never cared about it, therefore it's not part of the big 3 (GIF/JPG/PNG)
Paint.NET also supports them natively. Not the best option for a viewer of course, but consider it if you need editing too.
Irfanview allows me to open the GEM Paint images I made on my Amstrad XT clone in the 1980s.
It's very cool that the latest version of a current piece of software has this kind of compatibility.
Is this too much voodoo?
