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| Name | DDS |
| Full name | DDS - Microsoft Direct Draw Surface |
| File extension | .dds |
| MIME type | image/vnd.ms-dds |
| Developed by | Microsoft |
| Type of format | texture files |
| Description | The DirectDraw Surface container file format (uses the filename extension DDS), is a Microsoft format for storing data compressed with the proprietary S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs. |
| Technical details | The DirectDraw Surface format is useful for storing graphical textures and cubic environment maps as a data file, both compressed and uncompressed. The Microsoft Windows file extension for this data format is '.dds'. |
| Associated programs | Adobe Photoshop |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw_Surface |