texture files causing CTD

[Arcturus7777]

I took a couple of the DDS files that are in textures\setdressing\signage, using gimp I converted them to jpeg.  cut and pasted parts of fallout NV game capture pictures into them.  edited them, then converted them back to DDS with gimp and dropped them in the textures folder in correct path.  I now get CTD every 5 minutes.  If I delete them no more CTD.

 

I have attached the two files, if someone can help me figure out what is wrong with them, or tell me what additional steps I need to do to make them work.

 

billboardsbostonbugle01_02_d.dds

billboardstheunstoppables01_nukacola03_d.dds

[Z0mBieP00Nani]

Did you save them as "DTX5 Interpolated Alpha"? If you save them in the wrong format it can cause the game to crash.

[Arcturus7777]

is that a compression type?  No, is just exported it default settings in gimp.  I looked and I do not see that compression type only alpha exponent dtx5

[Arcturus7777]

I seem to have fixed this by... Loading the initial dds file into gimp using load layers, then exporting the file for edit as PNG not JPEG. Then after editing using gimp to export it back to dds.

 

Using PNG and loading intially as layers, were ideas from YouTube vids.

 

I have edited 8 textures so far and no longer get crashes.