Talk:DirectDraw Surface

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Just thought this file format should get a fair mention. Anyone with some good links please post them. This article is too barebones right now.--n00b 23:07, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

"Though it was originally designed strictly for DirectX, a hack was later developed to use it with OpenGL as well." This makes no sense. OpenGL delibearately doesn't deal with file formats, only rendering, letting the programmer deal with file IO however they choose to. Support for the DXT compression method used within dds files is provided via the ARB_texture_compression extension. (see: http://developer.nvidia.com/attach/6585 )

This is not a hack. I'd like to either see a credible source for the above statement (which I'm willing to bet won't happen), or it should be removed. 82.71.7.193 21:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that this file format should be added to the "Multimedia Compression Formats" list, both because it is a standardized format and because it is widely used. Especially considering it is one of, if not the, biggest user of DXTn compression. Any thoughts on this? --n00b 01:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't forget the GPU reference datatype DirectDrawSurface4. DirectDraw surface existed a long time before DirectX 7 but not as the file format. I searched for it in Wikipedia because I can't find how to release a DirectDrawSurface7 from the memory to avoid memory leaks in 2D games. Any links about that would improve this page a lot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dawoodoz (talk • contribs) 11:59, 2 May 2008 (UTC)