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Title

DDS Compression Tool

Author

BioWare

Submitted / Updated

08-07-2002 / 06-29-2005

Category

Application

Format

Exe File

Description

In order to use the textures in your module for others to play, you must convert the images to the compressed format that is recognized by the game.

The DDS Compression Tool is a free, unsupported Windows utility that will not work on all video cards. It is dependant on your video card and drivers supporting the required compression. Most DirectX 8 drivers should work - I have tested it on a GeForce3 and Radeon 8500, which worked fine, however the Matrox G550 card I tested did not work.

If you cannot run the DDS Compression Tool, I would suggest finding a friend who can to convert your textures, as this is just a small (though required) step in the overall process of creating your own textures!

Files

Name	Type	Size	Downloads
dds.zipdds.zip Submitted: 08-07-2002 / Last Updated: 08-07-2002	zip	262.38Kb	4367
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Comments (6):

Posted by PC_Maniac at 2008-02-05 16:20:37 Voted 10.00 on 02/05/08

Very usefull. Congratulation.
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Posted by Estelindis at 2007-09-08 07:17:18 Voted 10.00 on 09/08/07

Great utility! Pity about the lack of info.

For those who are confused, these instructions were posted on another page by Chukker on 15/07/2002:

You need to run the tool using command prompt under Win2000. Place the utility in the same directory as the extracted dds files and type the following line in command prompt once you've changed the directory to the correct location:
ddstools -d filename.dds to extract a dds
ddstools -e filename.tga to encode a tga to dds
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Posted by ATOM at 2007-02-15 14:08:45

Some instructions would be nice? But if works as simply as just putting a DDS file in the "in" folder and clicking both
program icons that seem to do nothing?It means my Graphics card will not support horrible DDS texture files?
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Posted by Old_Scores_Transfered at 2004-02-20 10:31:58 Voted 7.00 on 02/20/04

This is a compilation of the old system into a single score. There were 3 that made this score of 7.33 then rounded to 7.

Posted by SkyCrosser ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-02-06 05:05:00

I had the same problem & figured it out. Just by opening
the little picture at the top I saw that there were folders
in the same dir called "in" & "out" so I made them and it
works great!
Just in case anyone else gets stuck! =)

Posted by Lunariia ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2002-09-27 11:46:00

I don't seem to be able to get this to work, the error
message I get is "Unable to change to Source Folder, please
make sure the path is correct".
Umm... advice is appreciated ^_^

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