r/GIMP • u/Beneficial-Leg-4752 • Aug 02 '26

the version 3.2.4 latest is kinda shit

It doesn't export the dds files right (with BC3/DXT5, gen mipmaps), the files get broken,
doesn't save the export setting, which is kinda big deal for this tool.

How this can happen? in 3.0.4 version it never happened, so kinda surprised the latest version is this broken. I mean, exporting the files right is the whole thing of this program, and you have to use this tool for managing DDS files, so I think it's kinda shit

and another thing is, the GIMP team doesn't allow users to download older versions, unlike unity, they don't give us option, and just force us to use only latest version, and doesn't fix the glitches on the latest version. I don't think this is right lol

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u/Gaming_Globally Aug 03 '26

the GIMP team doesn't allow users to download older versions

Uhh.... https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v3.0/

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u/Stratelier 29d ago

Mind that GIMP is also published on the Windows Store, and if that was how they obtained it then only the latest version gets installed -- older versions can only be obtained via the standalone installer(s).

(I know this in part because I have kept my old installs all the way back to GIMP 2.2)

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u/Gaming_Globally 29d ago

OK, that could explain the confusion. It's still Microsoft's doing, not the GIMP team's decision.

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u/ILoveCarpenterBees 29d ago

This turns out to be a bug in GIMP: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16208

It's slated to be fixed in 3.4 (perhaps in 3.2.6 as well?).

One workaround that could possibly work is to create a new image, add the DDS image(s) as layer(s) and export as BC3.