   DX7 : How to create a texture from pixels?
  Hello, I'm having trouble coding an image loading routine. I have the file loaded properly and the pixels are in a buffer just waiting to go into a texture. It's a DXT5 compressed .DDS image. I know DirectX8+ has functions to do this easily, but I'm seeing this is not as easy in DX7.   
  It's not possible on this Directx version.   ;  It is possible.  Textures in DX7 were simply DDraw surfaces.  You'll have to create an IDirectDrawSurface7 surface of the appropriate format, lock the surface, copy the compressed bits to the surface, unlock, then set the texture into the device using IDirect3DDevice7::SetTexture.  This is explained in the section "Texture Compression" in the DX7 SDK docs.;  it is not possible, te SDK says no thing of compressed datas.   