Format
DirectDraw Surface
Summary
- Name
- DirectDraw Surface
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1040
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
- The DirectDraw Surface file format was introduced with DirectX 7 to store uncompressed and compressed textures. The file format supports mipmaps, cube maps, and volume maps.
- File extensions
-
dds - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
- Supported by
- Microsoft Corporation
Internal signatures
DirectDraw Surface
- Note
- BOF: magic: 'DDS ', length of header (0x7C000000) = 124 bytes https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb943991(v=vs.85).aspx#File_Layout1
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
444453207C000000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V90
- Release date
- 30 March 2017
DirectDraw Surface: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.
DirectDraw Surface: Full entry added.