• S3 Texture Compression (redirect from S3TC)
    S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) (sometimes also called DXTn, DXTC, or BCn) is a group of related lossy texture compression algorithms originally developed...
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  • data compressed with the previously proprietary S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs. This makes the...
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    integrated NTSC/PAL TV-encoder, (optional) Macrovision S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) multi-tap X/Y interpolating front-end (BITBLT) and back-end (overlay) video-scaler...
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  • Interactive and offered as an open source rival standard to S3TC in September 1999, a year after S3TC had been adopted by Microsoft as part of DirectX. Limited...
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  • and a bonus soundtrack CD. Missing from Unreal Tournament are the improved S3TC textures which came with the original release of the game. Also, the internet...
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  • Cell Compression. It is designed to be compatible with existing patented S3TC decompressors while avoiding any need for patent licensing fees. According...
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    2 or 4 colors for each block of 4x4 pixels, used in BTC, CCC, S2TC, and S3TC. Chroma subsampling. This takes advantage of the fact that the human eye...
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    3D, was released early and suffered from driver issues, but it introduced S3TC, which became an industry standard. S3 bought Number Nine's assets in 1999...
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  • the game also came with increased image quality with the support for the S3TC compression algorithm, allowing for 24-bit high resolution textures without...
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  • Mapping and legacy 8-bit paletted texture support. While the chip supported S3TC/DXTC texture compression, only the (most commonly used) DXT1 format was supported...
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