CSGO: How To Change Background - Tips and tricks - Ultimate Guide

If you don't know how to change background in CSGO you've come to the right place, where we've covered everything about it.

Why change background in CSGO?

Despite the many changes in the game interface, some things still look outdated, so if you want to give a more interesting touch to the game interface you can change the background. So read on to find out how to change background.

How to change background in CSGO? - Considerations

If you are wondering how to change background, the first thing you need to know is that as far as it is understood, this is something that cannot be forbidden with VAC, however, we recommend that you make sure if this is really against the game policies or not.

That raises doubts, as it is necessary to change some game files in order to play a custom video as the background of your game.

How to change background in CSGO?

Having that clear, the first thing you should do is to find a video that serves as background. It doesn't matter the format of the video, since you will still have to convert it.

It can be a video of your own creation or one with rights to use and modify.
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When you have the video you want to use you will have to convert it to "WebM" format, this can be done with many converters like "WebMConverter", some are paid and others are free but the choice is yours. When you find the one you want to use simply select the video file and convert it to the mentioned format.

It is important that the video resolution you choose is 1280 × 720 for the output file, set the bitrate to 20000 and activate the high-quality mode.

After the above process you will have to go to your Steam library > right click on the game > go to Manage > Search local files > go to "csgo" > "panorama" > "videos".

In case you don't know which background videos can be used, you will have to access the game > go to Settings > Video > Background Scenery from the main menu, and here you can find the backgrounds available in the game. Then exit the game and go to the game's local files > search for a video that is currently in use. Ex. Cobblestone. It's in the files, copy the 720p name of that video and rename your own video to that one.

Next step drag and drop your own video into the game files with the same name as the video that was previously in those files and if prompted, replace the file in the destination to complete the process.

It is important that you select cobblestones as the background scenery in the game or any other scenery video that you have replaced. In addition, it is also important that it is the 720 video you are replacing.

It is possible that in a new update that modified scenery video will be removed out of service, if it happens you will have to change it to one of the ones that are available.