Left 4 Dead Guide

How to Enable Official Backgrounds for Left 4 Dead

How to Enable Official Backgrounds

Overview

This guide describes how to modify and display 1 of 3 official backgrounds in Left 4 Dead.

Modding Or Configuration

1) Locate your Left 4 Dead local files.

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2) Backup Left 4 Dead’s “Media” folder. (This is optional.)

You will be modifying the files in this folder, if in the event you’re unsatisfied with the background you’ve chosen, or if modifying these files is crashing/breaking your game. Replacing the folder with a backup is the quickest solution to a fix. Again this is optional, but I highly recommend it.

3) Renaming files.

The current official background Left 4 Dead uses is “l4d_crashcourse_bg”. If you wanna select 1 of the other 2 backgrounds, all you have to do is this.

-Look at the previews below.
-If you found a background you want to use, open L4D’s media folder.
-Delete or Rename the file called “l4d_crashcourse_bg.bik”
-Locate the background you want to use.
-Rename it as “l4d_crashcourse_bg”
-That’s it! Launch Left 4 Dead and enjoy your new background.

Previews

l4d_background
l4d_lighthouse_bg01
l4d_crashcourse_bg
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