Description: Free DDS Viewer – free software that lets you view Microsoft DirectDraw Surface(.dds) files, resize and convert them to other image formats.
DDS file format was created by Microsoft and is associated with Direct Draw Surface.
DDS format was first introduced with DirectX 7.0 in September 1999. Over the years, DDS file format was updated and extended. With DirectX 8.0 support for volume textures was added, with Direct3D 10 was allowed an array of textures to be included. DDS file format is container format for storing data, compressed with S3 Texture Compression algorithm and can be decompressed in hardware by Graphic Processing Unit (GPU).
Because this format is useful for storing graphical textures and cubical environmental maps as data files, compressed and uncompressed, commonly is used in gaming development for enhancing user's gameplay experience.
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