DXT5 to DDS

Convert DXT5 to DDS (Fast & Free)

Drag & drop files here …
(or click to select files)
An error has occured. Please refresh the page!

How to convert DXT5 to DDS ?

  1. Select DXT5 files you want to convert, from your computer or drag and drop it on the page.
  2. Press the "Convert" button in order to convert DXT5 to DDS.
  3. When the conversion is completed, click "Download" on the desired converted DDS file.

Browser Reliable

All conversions can be made on all popular browser, such as: Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera

Secured Conversions

Your data is not stored on our platform at all - being used only for the conversion itself - now including extra security via the latest technology updates

Free to Use

All conversions are completely free on our platform - feel free to use it as much as you want

Mobile Friendly

High Tech solutions built for you - ready to be used on all mobile platforms, including Android, iOS or Windows

Fast Conversions

Our mission as a cloud-based solution: Fast conversions being made on our side in seconds

High-Quality Tools

Our team is actively focusing on using the best tools and technologies in converting methods

DXT5 to DDS

Useful information about DXT5

Extension: DXT5
Name: S3 Texture Compression - Dxt5
Mime Type: image/dxt
Converter: DXT5 Converter
Description: The DXT5 format is an alternate RGBA format. As in the DXT3 case, each 4x4 block takes up 128 bits. So it provides the same 4:1 compression as in the DXT3 case. Just as for the DXT3 format, there are two 64-bit chunks of data per block: an RGB chunk compressed as for DXT1 (with the same caveat as for DXT3), and an alpha chunk. Again the second chunk is the color chunk; the first is the alpha. Where DXT3 and DXT5 differ is how the alpha chunk is compressed. DXT5 compresses the alpha using a compression scheme similar to DXT1. The alpha data is stored as 2 8-bit alpha values, alpha0 and alpha1, followed by a 48-bit unsigned integer that describes how to combine these two reference alpha values to achieve the final alpha value. The 48-bit integer is also stored in little-endian order. The 48-bit unsigned integer contains 3-bit codes that describe how to compute the final alpha value. These codes are stored in the identical order as the codes in DXT1; they simply are 3 bits in size rather than 2. - Source

Useful information about DDS

Extension: DDS
Name: DirectDraw Surface
Mime Type: image/vnd-ms
Converter: DDS Converter
Description: The DirectDraw Surface container file format (uses the filename extension DDS), is a Microsoft format for storing data compressed with the previously proprietary S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs. This makes the format useful for storing graphical textures and cubic environment maps as a data file, both compressed and uncompressed.[2] The file extension for this data format is dds. - Source