Loading Screen Images

[Herr Gamer]

So, I always think that the images you see in the loading screen are very impressive and I would love to have some of them as my Desktop Background (Without the Civ 5 on them), is there a way to find those anywhere?

[Hapxier]

Thank you Post History, you're a useful feature. A little copy and paste, and here we go:

Yes! The loading screens can be found in the *UITextures.fpk files, located in (steam's directory)\SteamApps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\Resource\(common or DX9 subdirectories), and are usually named "loading_*.dds". You'll need a program capable of unpacking the .fpk files, and one capable of reading or converting the .dds image files inside the .fpk (most graphical manipulation programs can do this). Luckily, the Civ V emblem is just an overlay, thus keeping the load screen images nice and clean.

This also extends to the World Wonder images, victory splashes, and most other bits of civ-specific artwork, so you can get those in clean versions as well.