dds plugin and photoshop CS

amiganr1 · Post #1by **amiganr1** » 30.12.2003, 18:48

i downloaded Earth16k-121203.dds and i am trying to open it in photoshop cs but i get this error:

Could not complete your request because of a program error.

the if i try again i get:

Could not complete your request because of a problem with the file-format interface.

how can i open this file and make it a tiff or something else?

is it available as tiff, tga somewhere else?

thanks.

Buzz · Post #2by **Buzz** » 30.12.2003, 21:19

You need a plugin; you can get it here: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html. I hope this helps.

maxim · Post #3by **maxim** » 31.12.2003, 10:17

amiganr1,

The DDS Plugin for Photoshop is somewhat buggy.
The error occurs sometimes while Photoshop starts swapping image data because of unsufficient main-memory. Once you've got the error, the plugin stays corrupted, and Photoshop doesn't recognize the file format any more until you restart.

Try either to keep your memory as empty and non-splitted as possible (don't run other applications simultanouesly) or upgrade your mainboard with more memory.

hope that could help,

maxim

Don. Edwards · Post #4by **Don. Edwards** » 31.12.2003, 10:42

Hey guys,
Even with all the memory I have 1.5gigs, I can't open a 16k .DDS in photoshop. As far as I am conserned the plug-ins limit is an 8k .DDS texture. I guess if you had 3gigs of RAM it might work.
Maxim you stated that you had to restart to get the plug-in to work once it crashed. You should have said he will need to restart Photoshop. The way you stated it it sounds like he needs to restart the whole system and he doesn't.
I know I wish the plug-in was more stable and had a better way of managing memory. But we also have to blame Photoshop for that. All these years and Adobe can't seem to make Photohop a little more memory savy with an XP system. Even with is considered allot of memory and Photoshop can just crawl. Thats why it is taking me forever with the big 32k texture.

Don. Edwards

amiganr1 · Post #5by **amiganr1** » 31.12.2003, 13:14

so how can i get a 16k of the earth in jpg, tga or something i can use?

thanks in advance.

maxim · Post #6by **maxim** » 31.12.2003, 17:36

Don.Edwards wrote:Maxim you stated that you had to restart to get the plug-in to work once it crashed. You should have said he will need to restart Photoshop. The way you stated it it sounds like he needs to restart the whole system and he doesn't.

You are right Don, I'm sorry, that was misunderstoodable (Hmpf... I always wonder if my germanlike declination of english words is somewhat correct).

Don.Edwards wrote:Even with all the memory I have 1.5gigs, I can't open a 16k .DDS in photoshop. As far as I am conserned the plug-ins limit is an 8k .DDS texture. I guess if you had 3gigs of RAM it might work.

Playing around a little bit, I must confess, that my problems with *.DDS indeed start at 8k not 16k (doesn't work at all). I had in mind having no problems, but that's because I've forgotten that I first use IrfanView to convert from *.DDS to *.TIF and then switch over to Photoshop with that format. :oops:

nice days to all of you,

maxim.

MRIS · Post #7by **MRIS** » 11.01.2004, 13:27

The phrase "why use a sledgehammer to kill ant?" and comes to mind....

A program called "IRFANVIEW" from http://www.irfanview.com/ can do this (convert from dds to PNG or whatever) easily.

I just tried it on a 16k earth texture and it went quickly (from DDS to PNG), on a 1Gb RAM machine it didn't even blink.

John Van Vliet · Post #8by **John Van Vliet** » 12.01.2004, 04:13

have you tried XnView
http://www.xnview.de/
or
for windows the dx9 sdk . microsoft has finally !!!!!!!! gotten it to work.
DxTex.exe works on 8k but i have not tried it on 16k,32k .dds images