Can't see anything at night

[cardician]

Hello all. I'm getting back into the game after a number of years so thought I'd stop in and see what mods were available. Decided to just go simple and install GWX. So I believe I got everything installed properly and was having a good time getting back into things. I was having some CTD issues but I think they have been mostly caused by saving improperly. The real issue I've been having is that at night, especially in poor weather so the moon is covered, I literally can't see anything. My screen is just pure black. I've looked into various fixes for this but can't seem to find any that work. This combined with the CTDs I've been having have almost made me give up and just relegate this game back to my game shelf. Anyone have any thoughts on what I can do to increase the brightness at night? I've even tried looking for some mods and did find two of them. One immediately caused my game to crash and the other didn't seem to make any difference. Or if it did make a difference it wasn't enough of one to make it usable. I've also tried raising the brightness and a few other settings on my monitor, all to no avail.

So if anyone has some ideas please do let me know. I really want to be able to get back into this game and when it looked like I wasn't going to be able to it was a pretty big disappointment. Thanks to all for any help.