DDS Texture Scanner

WHAT IS THIS

This tool will scan a folder (including all subfolders and, optionally, all contained BA2 archives) for DDS texture files with abnormal dimensions. This allows you to locate textures that have the potential to CTD your game. It will find odd-sized cubemaps that were saved without the cubemap flag set as well.

And it will go really  fast if your harddrive can keep up:

On my box, it plows through 6200 textures per second.

You'll get slower speeds if you have potato computer ofc. Having lots of BA2 General type archives with textures in them will also slow things down.

Btw it'll work for Skyrim, too. In fact, it works really for any game/application that uses DDS textures.

HOW TO USE

- This is obviously not a playable mod

- Requires Microsoft . NET Framework 4. 7. 1 or higher

- Download, extract archive into folder & run TextureScan.exe (or rebuild from source, if you like)

- Select folder with textures in it

- Tick the "Process BA2 Archives" checkbox if you want the scanner to look inside any BA2 archives it finds

- Hit GO button

- Doubleclick on any listed texture file to open it with your default DDS viewer/editor program (not supported for archived files)

- Hovering the mouse over a INVALID/CORRUPTED/ERROR or UNSUPPORTED entry will pop up a ToolTip with more info about the problem.

- Right click on the list will popup a menu with some additional options: Copy list to clipboard, Copy selected to clipboard, Open path in Explorer.

- Note: Not every texture that gets listed will necessarily crash the game. For example, background screens will not be powers of two sized.

Use your own judgement, test and verify where appropriate. As a general rule of thumb, you can ignore stuff in vanilla archives.

Recommended additional tools:

• []My DDS Texture Informer shows you details about all DDS textures (not just suspicious ones).[/]

  []Use IceStormNG's Texture Toolbox to convert/resave textures.[/]

  []Collective Modding Toolkit helps you optimize your game.[/]

  []Paint.net is very useful for DDS file editing.[/]

  WITCHCRAFT!!! HOW DOES THIS WORK???

  - The tool finds all . DDS texture files in the scan path and reads the DDS header of each file.

  - If the "Process BA2 Archives" option is enabled, it will also look for . DDS files inside any BA2 archives it discovers within the scan path.

  - Archived textures will be extracted only if contained within a General type BA2 archive. Texture type BA2 archives can be processed more efficiently.

  - If a texture's cubemap flag i