Viewing .DDS files

Download and install The DirectX Software Development Kit. After that you can either go in the conquer folder, then the folder with the DDS files, and click on Thumbnail view. If you can see them, click Open with and choose DirectX Texture Viewer. The third way is going to Start>Run and type in dxtex.exe. This will open the DirectX Texture viewer.
You should have your color depth to 32 or 16 bits and a resolution or 800 by 600 or 1024 by 768. Maybe on some computers it will work at higher but for DirectX use this resolution it seems some people have a problem with higher resolution.This instructions only apply for DirectX SDK.

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The DirectX SDK is around 150 mbs.

Another DDS Thumbnail viewer from nVIDIA:
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This one is 1.8 MB

Another DDS Viewer:
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This one is 61KB.

Heres another DDS viewer, theres many you can find on Google. It's just that the DirectX SDK has alot of nice extra features not only the DDS viewer.

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I havent tried it. Im on my P1 comp and I dont got CO installed here.

so it lets u see the map and edit it?

it didnt work for me.. dxtex.exe or sumthing didnt work it didnt show ! pls help.. i downloaded hte first one

Unable to create Direct3D Device. Please make sure your desktop colour depth is 16 or 32 bit.


there there how how?.. my desktop 16 bits :cry:

try using this, it really helps

o ty ty very much anhang

nice you could try infraview to dont know where to download it tho :S

Seraphicz, do you have DirectX 9.0c ?
Did you restart your computer ?
Change your resolution maybe, not the color depth.

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Originally posted by XtremeX-CO@Jun 15 2005, 22:34 Seraphicz, do you have DirectX 9.0c ? Did you restart your computer ? Change your resolution maybe, not the color depth.

okay i will try my res 1152x864 <-- looks nice i have direct x 9.0c too

ure helpful :D

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This allows you to see your dds files before opening them like bmp or jpg files

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