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I'm assuming this is how PZ is supposed to look. This is from my screen but taken in single player. Correct me if I'm wrong. Like I mentioned, the unbearable darkness mostly happens in online multiplayer and light is just nonexistent. I'll try and see if that works, thanks. Edit: Holy cow, disabling the Shader worked. Thank you very much Harakka, for saving me from having to tinker with it. It looks normal now. How come my friends have Shader enabled and their screens look fine? What exactly is shader doing that was causing the annoying pitch-blackness look? So I was wrong earlier, THIS is how PZ is supposed to look:

Actually no, because I have two friends who play this as well and their screens never get this dark. There are even occasions where I can turn on light while they can't and vice versa. While we we're traveling together during nights, they even see street lights, while on my screen there isn't any street lights at all and everything outside is painfully dark. It becomes so dark (nearly pitch black) at times that it takes me more time than necessary to leave a building since I can't see my own character. I'm pretty sure it's not normal. And this isn't IRL. Notice in the second screenshot that I can barely see where my character is anymore; it actually gets worse than that at times. Already tried that, unfortunately. It seems some people have PZ showing up the way it's supposed to be shown, and there are others who have the same issue I have. And up to this point the people with the same graphical bug I have, have been believing that PZ is supposed to be this dark at night. It's not.

Shaders is already set to "Yes"

Temporary Fix: Set Shaders to "No" I think this is happening online most of the time. I don't know if everyone is seeing the same thing and that it's supposed to be like this, but I find when exploring buildings during nights the game is unplayable. It is simply too dark to see a single thing. Everything outside is also a very dark blue color, but it's not as bad as inside. The darkness of the game is very abnormal since it's only supposed to be dark with a hue of blue, yet it's not and the game just has little to no visibility at night. Is there any fix for this, and does anyone know what's wrong with my monitor that it's causing the game to display like this? Also, lightswitches rarely work, if ever. It starts to become fine again once morning light starts to come. Adding Tags to this post so people looking for the same fix can find it easier on Google. I searched for hours with no luck until finally making a thread here Tags: Project Zomboid too dark fix Project Zomboid too dark fix Project Zomboid too dark fix Project Zomboid too dark fix Project Zomboid too dark fix Project Zomboid too dark fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid no lights fix Project Zomboid can't see Project Zomboid pitch black Project Zomboid dark bug Project Zomboid too dark in houses Project Zomboid too dark in houses Project Zomboid too dark in houses Project Zomboid too dark in houses