Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Dds file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to pam in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i photo.dds -c "convert to pam" (how).
Let your AI agent convert DirectDraw Surface (DX10) to PAM
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the DirectDraw Surface (DX10) files in my Downloads folder to PAM”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i photo.dds -c "convert to pam"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert DirectDraw Surface (DX10) to PAM?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i photo.dds -c "convert to pam" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
A DDS DX10 file is a raster image saved in the DirectDraw Surface (DDS) container format whose DX10 extension header selects a DirectX 10 or newer texture format. It stores the texture data in one of Microsoft's DXGI formats — block-compressed GPU textures (BC1–BC7), high-dynamic-range BC6H data or uncompressed formats — and is mostly used for textures, normal maps and cube maps in modern games. Legacy DDS readers often fail on these files.
The PAM image format is a lowest common denominator 2 dimensional map format. It is designed to be used for any of myriad kinds of graphics, but can theoretically be used for any kind of data that is arranged as a two dimensional rectangular array.
