Found it :D, It's been driving me crazy for years.

This mod also adds a tiny "Lockheart Icon" To the Top right corner of your menu's I've been wondering for years which mod it was. It's this 1.

@EasilyTyp
Thank you for letting us know your workaround!

For those who used some FPS boost mod, follow these steps to fix black backgrounds.

Go to the folder where you placed the FPS boost, "autoexec.cfg", which is at Steam > Steamapps > Common > Insurgency2 > Insurgency > cfg.

Open "autoexec.cfg" with Notepad/Notepad++/Textedit

And find these 3:
mat_blur_b 0
mat_blur_g 0
mat_blur_r 0

And change all the "0" values to "0.5" (without " )

It should look like this:
mat_blur_b 0.5
mat_blur_g 0.5
mat_blur_r 0.5

Save the cfg file into the directory and you are done. Also ensure that you did everything stated in the FPS boost video before doing this. Especially setting launch options.

How to use

it somehow worked for me after i set the settings to mode/texture settings to high of course it's black, but then setting the shader to low, and then setting again the model/texture to low you can even set again the shader to high. :) it will work, and it's good it really helps the gameplay, but somehow it's still broken this one needs to be fixed.

also not working for me, either. unsubbing.

still not working for me tried resubbing, goes black

Hello? Can you help me? I have a bug when i subscribed the mod. The mod isn't transparent for me it's just black background, so i unsubscribed it and the black background is still there..

Yeah it works in the custom folder, but doesn't even seem to update via the workshop submission route. I'm not sure what the hell is going on, but I know the mod itself is working on my end

So I found the vpk itself, (it was in the original path, not the new and updated location, doh!) and verfied that the files are indeed correct. However, it was strange that when I had the mod subscribed, the mod wouldn't work. As soon as I moved the vpk over to my local insurgency\custom folder (not workshop), the mod started to work again. So I unsubscribed from the actual workshop mod for now. I'll try resubbing to see if it works...

So, it says it updated.. but I see no evidence of it doing so. Did anything change or update for you guys?

I'll take a look at it soon

I think it's been broken for a while now, maybe you can investigate? I can't see the vpk file now because the new format makes it a "legacy" workshop item so I can't help you fix it.

What's it doing?

Seems to have problems,downloaded no response.

好像有问题，订阅后没反应

not working

Actually I found the commands that need to be modified! Just in case the same thing happens to someone it's mat_blur_b 0; mat_blur_g 0; mat_blur_r 0. Overwrite 0 with some number around 1 and everything works again.

Anytime, if I had to GUESS, I'd check for alpha values in the cfg.

Yeah it worked before the cfg change, great mod by the way, thanks for answering :)

@Serene The background is just a texture. It's not a complicated mod. The mod worked before the cfg change no? Ergo it's a problem with the cfg you're using, which I know nothing about.

I just put an FPS boost cfg in the game and the background went totally black, do you know which commands I should modify?

Changes things up a bit, and good to see what's infront of you when selecting your equipment. The only problem is on the brighter maps it's near impossible to see the stats at the end of the game.

Just wanted to mention this. I'm running around 60 mods on my PC and with them, this works perfectly.

me too.

Works for me as well.

To you guys saying it doesn't work, I just did a clean install and it's working fine on my end..

item currently played on 16 slots custom server here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/IN2UMGE

Doesn't seem to work anymore.

Looks nice.

It doesn't work anymore and Alt+Tabbing does not fix it.

Currently running a dedicated server with your workshop item enable!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/222880/discussions/3/494632768631858443/

thanks!

Thanks, added it to the Realism Collection
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=502626064

@Burga Could be, I don't have a mac to troubleshoot this on

doesn't work for me. game also crashes when I click on this in the "workshop" section ingame.
I'm playing on a mac, maybe that's the reason?

Brilliant!!! Thanks matey!

Thank you :P

LOVE IT!!

amazing i spend too much time in the loadout screen and now i know if an enemy is wating for me to move!

This is pretty great. Only thing is that it can be hard to read the text on some backgrounds. Changing those to a different color might help that, but in any case thanks!

Such a small annoyance but i'm so glad its gone! thanks!

@kwebber - HiJacked

what map is that??

sweet! worked : )

Yup

so what exactly would i do then? just put the vpk itself in custom?

Alright, the (4) new methods I tried also didn't work. I would subscribe, go in-game, and on official maps nothing would change, but the very second I'd alt+tab or go on a custom map.. it would work fine from that point on. Idk man, I'm really at a loss at this point. You could always drop the file into your custom folder and it should work without flaw.

no worries, ill be patient!

I'll be making some changes to this soon that'll hopefully clear up this strange issue. I could understand improper function if I had modified the vmt, but I haven't. It's basically just an alpha channel on a flat image. This is very basic stuff that source should have zero problem handling, and works fine on this same build of the engine in other games, yet for some reason in insurgency it's being fucking retarded.

As for a temp solution, sorry but I don't have a mac system I can test with.