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Looking for a library that can do DirectX texture compression...

Started by jonwil Apr 28 at 9:18 AM 2 replies 800+ views

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Apr 28 at 9:18 AM

I have some old stuff that uses the old NVIDIA nvdxtlib library to do texture compression and I am writing some new code that also needs to do the same texture compression. I am unable to use nvdxtlib as it will not work with Visual Studio 2022.

Can anyone suggest a more modern library that can produce DDS/compressed data with DXT1, DXT1A, DXT3, DXT5, A8R8G8B8, X8R8G8B8 and R5G6B5 texture formats? I also need mipmap generation and support for generating volume maps. I need Visual Studio 2022 compatibility and I need something that does not use any GPU APIs (which rules out the more modern NVIDIA stuff that is tied to CUDA and NVIDIA GPUs). I should also mention that for various reasons, I need 32 bit libs.

Aressera

Apr 28 at 4:17 PM

I use AMD's Compressonator library in my engine. It does most of what you say, though I do use my own image resampler for mipmap generation. I don't know if it supports 3D textures. It's not the best library I've used (I found several serious bugs when using it, it seems barely tested), but it is supposed to have pretty good quality and supports most compression formats. There aren't many other good options if I recall.

antoine4

Apr 29 at 9:38 AM

You can use microsoft/DirectXTex: DirectXTex texture processing library
It is available in vcpkg (vcpkg package - directxtex), or even simpler if you're using Visual Studio, as a native NuGet package NuGet Gallery | directxtex_desktop_win10 2026.4.1.1

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