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DDS - Microsoft Direct Draw Surface

 

Format introduction:

The DirectDraw Surface container file format (uses the filename extension DDS), is a Microsoft format for storing data compressed with the proprietary S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs.

Technical details:

The DirectDraw Surface format is useful for storing graphical textures and cubic environment maps as a data file, both compressed and uncompressed. The Microsoft Windows file extension for this data format is '.dds'.

 

File extension	.dds
MIME	image/vnd.ms-dds
Developed by	Microsoft
Type of format	Texture files
Associated programs	Adobe Photoshop
Sample file	sample.dds
Wikipedia	DDS on Wikipedia