diff --git a/engine/menu_int.h b/engine/menu_int.h
index f8b23614..8a6905d6 100644
--- a/engine/menu_int.h
+++ b/engine/menu_int.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ typedef int		HIMAGE;		// handle to a graphic
 #define PIC_NEAREST		(1<<0)		// disable texfilter
 #define PIC_KEEP_SOURCE	(1<<1)		// some images keep source
 #define PIC_NOFLIP_TGA	(1<<2)		// Steam background completely ignore tga attribute 0x20
+#define PIC_EXPAND_SOURCE (1<<3)		// don't keep as 8-bit source, expand to RGBA
 
 // flags for COM_ParseFileSafe
 #define PFILE_IGNOREBRACKET (1<<0)