DirectDraw Surface

DirectDraw Surface
Filename extension
.dds
Internet media typeimage/vnd-ms.dds, image/x-direct-draw-surface
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)com.microsoft.dds
Magic number'D' 'D' 'S' ' '
Developed byMicrosoft
Initial release1999 (1999)
Type of formatImage file formats
Websitedocs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3ddds/dx-graphics-dds

The DirectDraw Surface container file format is a Microsoft format for storing data compressed with the previously proprietary S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs. This makes the format useful for storing graphical textures and cubic environment maps as a data file, both compressed and uncompressed. The file extension for this data format is '.dds'.

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