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Texture Shaders vs. Pixel/Fragment Shaders?

My question is a simple one. Functionally, practically, and performance-wise, what are the differences between using a D3DX Texture Shader, and using a Pixel/Fragment Shader rendered with a full ...
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Why do Pool.Default D3D volume textures take memory from my process?

I am working on a Direct3D rendering application that uses a lot of texture RAM. I notice that if I allocate a Pool.Default volume texture: _texture = new VolumeTexture(device, size.Width, ...