View DDS files in your browser
The texture format of games and 3D apps on DirectX. Open one right here at full size, with its mipmaps, faces and slices as pages. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens at actual size, or shrunk to fit your screen.
- Actual size, or shrunk to fit
- Drag to pan • Pinch or scroll to zoom
- Fullscreen
- Export • Save as PNG or JPEG
About DDS
Microsoft made DDS, DirectDraw Surface, for DirectX 7 in 1999, and games have kept their textures in it since, as do their mods and 3D apps: Skyrim and Fallout, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Assetto Corsa and many more.
A DDS keeps pixels the way a graphics card reads them, mostly in blocks compressed with BC1 to BC7, of which DXT1 to DXT5 are the first, beside plain 8, 16 and 32 bit layouts and half and full floats. One file can hold a texture's mipmaps, the six faces of a cube map, or the slices of an array or a volume.
No browser opens a DDS, so Filepeek decodes it itself. Each mipmap, face and slice is a page, and the bar names the format, like BC7 sRGB. BC5 normal maps get their blue channel back, HDR textures are tone mapped for the screen, and Export saves the page on show as PNG or JPEG.
DirectDraw Surface
.dds
Format
- MIME type
- image/vnd.ms-dds
- Made by
- Microsoft
- Released
- 1999
Inside the file
- Header
- DDS, then DX10's for newer formats
- Compression
- BC1 to BC7
- Also
- Plain, half and float pixels
- Pages
- Mipmaps, cube faces and slices
Opens in every browser
No browser shows a DDS by itself. Filepeek decodes it in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Questions
How do I open a DDS file?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek a DDS. It opens in the image viewer at full size, with its mipmaps, faces and slices as pages.
How do I convert a DDS to PNG?
Open it, then choose Export, then Save as PNG or JPEG. The page on show is saved.
Which DDS formats does it open?
BC1 to BC7, which include DXT1 to DXT5, plain 8, 16 and 32 bit layouts, and half and float pixels, which are tone mapped for the screen.
Is my texture uploaded?
No. It opens inside your browser and never leaves your device.