Published by: Indie Stone Community Tech Support Difficulty: Intermediate Time to fix: 5–15 minutes

One of the most alarming bugs in Project Zomboid occurs not during a helicopter event, but right at launch. You double-click the icon, the screen flashes, you hear the ominous hum of the Kentucky countryside... but the screen is black, or you see the background image with (no "Solo," "Host," "Options," or "Quit").

If you have tried all five steps and still see a blank screen, your graphics drivers may be from 2012, or you have a third-party overlay (Discord, NVIDIA ShadowPlay, RivaTuner) that is hooking into the Java window. Disable all overlays and update your GPU drivers to the latest (not beta) release.

Now get out there. The menu is back, but the apocalypse is waiting.

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I'm an audio enthusiast, entrepreneur, and owner of Raytown Productions – an online mixing, mastering, and production studio. I love challenging artists and musicians to create art that is honest and resonates with others.

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