Lighting Issues

I’m having issues with the game being too dark. When the game initially loads, it’s perfectly bright, but then slowly darkens to the point where I can barely see anything. I’ve already attempted to adjust this in the advanced video settings and following a few suggestions on other threads but with no effect. Any suggestions?

I remember an old thread addressing a very similar problem, but IIRC not a lot came of it. Then in one of the fix updates the developers claimed to have resolved this problem.

A fix was finally discovered.

To Fix The Over Darkening Issue
Type the following two commands into console

mat_hdr_level 2
mat_tonemapping_occlusion_use_stencil 1

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