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No Main Menu Background Map (Installation required)

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21 Sep, 2021 @ 11:00am

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Description

Disables the 3d map background on the main menu so you can load into the game faster.
Normal 2d backgrounds that show your progress through the game will still show.
This mod decreased the game's startup time from 12 seconds to 6 seconds for me.

If you don't install it, it wont do anything as it needed to be loaded before the rest of the game is loaded.

Installation

Open File Explorer and copy no_background_map.vpk from the mod's folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\362890\2608055270

and paste it into this folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Black Mesa\bms\custom

You might have to create the custom folder if it does not already exist.

You can then optionally unsubscribe from this mod as it is no longer needed, but make sure to leave a like to show your support.

9 Comments

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Ponyman64 22 Mar, 2024 @ 1:26am

Is there one of these for HL2 and the episodes?

Claude speed 15 Aug, 2023 @ 8:33am

@C1TY you have a steam level of 19 and you still dont know how to read a description

C1TY 4 Apr, 2023 @ 4:30pm

it didnt worked

𝓩𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓶 26 Jan, 2023 @ 3:32pm

I dont see 362890. All I see is 440, 4000, 241100, and 1583720. any help is appreciated, as i may just be blind/dumb

Define Brackish Water 25 Dec, 2022 @ 9:57am

This is great. Thank you.

I can confirm that it works after following the installation instructions.
When I start the game I no longer also have to type in "disconnect" in order to set "fps_max".
There is no longer a second loading screen after the game starts. It absolutely speeds it up.
The main menu music still plays.

For anyone curious about what this mod does: it's a .vpk file that is smaller than 1 KB. Reading the file in plain text suggests that it changes the 1 to 19 backgrounds to a map called "nonexistentmap". This mod taps into vanilla Black Mesa fallback behavior if the backgrounds fail to load for whatever reason, in this case intentionally with a mod.