Is there one of these for HL2 and the episodes?

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

it didnt worked

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

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.

you are god blessed man

i want to hug you for making this, finally i can play the game without waiting 5 minutes just to get to the main menu

Thank you so much

thanks