.dds Images & scans
How to open a .dds file
DirectDraw Surface Texture
Compressed game-texture format used by DirectX.
- Full name
- DirectDraw Surface Texture
- Made by
- Microsoft
- Era
- 1999-present
- Family
- Images & scans
- Converts to
- png · jpg · webp · tiff · pdf
- Detection
- Recognised from the file's bytes, even if renamed
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What survives the conversion
Top mip level is exported; DXT compression artefacts remain.
Other ways to open .dds files
- GIMP
- Paint.NET
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