Now get out there. The menu is back, but the apocalypse is waiting.
Published by: Indie Stone Community Tech Support Difficulty: Intermediate Time to fix: 5–15 minutes project zomboid no menu ui
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
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"). Disable all overlays and update your GPU drivers