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    Tips & TricksZwift Hacks

    Zwift-Preferences v37 Released: Customize Preferences, Graphics Profiles, and More on Zwift

    Jesper Rosenlund Nielsen
    By Jesper Rosenlund Nielsen
    January 3, 2022
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    Editor’s note: Jesper from ZwiftHacks is a longstanding, super-helpful member of the Zwift Community. His events app is our go-to for finding Zwift events, but he also has a handy tool called zwift-preferences for Windows PC users which lets you easily edit your Zwift prefs.xml file to do safe Zwift hacks like world hacking. We use it regularly! He just released a big update, making it more useful than ever. Here are the details!

    The new features are:

    • Swap the title music between the old, original one and the standard.
    • See which graphics profile is active and see current content of the four graphics profile configuration files.
    • Toggle the ShowFPS setting in a configuration.
    • Toggle additional logging option in prefs.xml.
    • Open more files and URLs from the menu Other.
    • Support for special Zwift installations added – override the location of Zwift program files and documents.

    Title music

    The ‘Sound and Screen’ tab now has a ‘Change startup music’ button.

    To make the changes zwift-preferences (the script) must run with administrator rights so you will have to restart it with the ‘Restart’ button and accept the Windows UAC prompt.

    After that you can simply toggle between the old, original title music and the new, standard one by the click of a button.

    Profiles

    The new tab Profiles shows the current content of the four graphics profile configuration files, which one is active, and lets you add or toggle the gShowFPS configuration setting to each of them.

    Learn more about Zwift graphics profile tweaks >

    To make the changes zwift-preferences (the script) must run with administrator rights so you will have to restart it with the ‘Restart’ button and accept the Windows UAC prompt.

    Simply press a ShowFPS button to add or toggle the option in a profile.

    Additional logging

    It is possible to have additional logging in log.txt by activating different options in prefs.xml. They have been added to the tab Miscellaneous

    The menu “Other”

    You can open the graphics configuration files directly from the menu Other. Besides that the ‘Launch my profile settings’ opens your profile page at zwift.com in a browser.

    Support for non-standard Zwift installations

    Support for special Zwift installations was added in v35 which has been live for a while but never properly announced: You can set ZWIFTPROG and ZWIFTDOC environment variables to override the location of Zwift program files and documents, respectively.

    Instructions for using this feature can be found here >

    Download

    Get the new version at the zwift-preferences page.

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      Jesper Rosenlund Nielsen
      Jesper Rosenlund Nielsenhttps://zwiftHacks.com
      Jesper lives in Vejle, Denmark and has been zwifting since 2015. He rides with World Social Riders whenever possible and also runs ZwiftHacks, the home of ZwiftMap, ZwiftPref, and other tools and hacks for Zwift riders. Find him on Strava

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      Craig Claussen
      Craig Claussen(@cjcjet)
      5 months ago

      Is the update for the Mac as well?

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      Jesper(@jesper)
      5 months ago
      Reply to  Craig Claussen

      No, zwift-preferences is only for Windows

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      James J Bonacorda
      James J Bonacorda
      5 months ago

      Where is the IOS version?

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      5 months ago
      Reply to  James J Bonacorda

      zwift-preferences is only for Windows

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      Brian Stoiber
      Brian Stoiber
      5 months ago

      Does the Support for non-standard Zwift installations mean that I could install Zwift twice and have two separate instances of it? One for my account and one for my wife? That is the only reason I use Zwift Login and if it means two installs, that is easier for her.

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      5 months ago
      Reply to  Brian Stoiber

      If you run Zwift as Windows user different from the one currently logged in (via a shortcut with appropriate settings) Zwift will store its documents (including prefs.xml) in the Documents folder for the user running Zwift, not the logged in user. It is one scenario where this functionality could make sense. Actually, it is possible to make multiple Zwift installations under the same Windows user account (google it) but in order have to separate prefs.xml per user you must still launch each instance as a separate user. Often it is far easier – and what I would normally recommend if… Read more »

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      4 months ago

      THANK YOU! I have been with Zwift for just over 7 months and I can’t tell you how much your newsletter has helped me get into the swing of things . . . from the Concept Bike and how to obtain it asap. (Thank you and done.) Plus all of the information about bike specs and so much more.

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