DDS files: how to open and convert them
DirectDraw Surface — GPU-compressed game textures (BC1–BC7). Specialised and rarely needed outside game engines.
What this site can do with DDS
- Open and read: no — and we say so rather than pretend
- Write and convert to: no honest browser encoder exists
- Compression: lossy — a quality slider applies when encoding
- Transparency: supported
Not decodable in-browser without a BCn decoder we do not ship; listed for completeness.