Everything about The Directdraw Surface totally explained
The
DirectDraw Surface (.dds) file format, from
Microsoft, is used for storing textures and cubic environment maps, both compressed and uncompressed. This makes the format useful for storing
DXTn compressed data used in
GPUs and consoles like the
Playstation 3 and
Xbox 360.
History
This format was introduced with DirectX 7.0. In DirectX 8.0, support for volume textures was added. Though it was originally designed for
DirectX, it can also be used in
OpenGL as well via the
ARB texture compression extension.
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