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      <p ns="0" title="DXT" snippet="...merly known as S3TC. DXT is widely supported on current graphics hardware, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; it will stay compressed in video memory, allowing the artist to use more or&#10;" size="3691" wordcount="612" timestamp="2019-01-10T13:27:34Z" />
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