zwift-preferences – ZwiftHacks https://zwifthacks.com Make it easy to ride more.... Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:16:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://zwifthacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-zh-large-1-32x32.png zwift-preferences – ZwiftHacks https://zwifthacks.com 32 32 139830697 Tools updated for new Zwift folder location https://zwifthacks.com/tools-updated-for-new-zwift-folder-location/ https://zwifthacks.com/tools-updated-for-new-zwift-folder-location/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:06:20 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=90980 The following tools have been updated to work with the new location for prefs.xml and log files under the %localappdata% folder:

]]> https://zwifthacks.com/tools-updated-for-new-zwift-folder-location/feed/ 0 90980 zwift-preferences hotfix https://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-hotfix-v38/ https://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-hotfix-v38/#respond Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:36:43 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=89095 It suddenly became necessary to fix zwift-preferences because of changed security settings at the server from where it pulls the route information.

There are no new features.

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Get the new version at the zwift-preferences page.

]]> https://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-hotfix-v38/feed/ 0 89095 Route selection woes in zwift-preferences / ZwiftPref https://zwifthacks.com/route-selection-woes-in-zwift-preferences-zwiftpref/ https://zwifthacks.com/route-selection-woes-in-zwift-preferences-zwiftpref/#comments Thu, 12 May 2022 09:51:00 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=88670 Important note re. the new home screen in Zwift:

Since Zwift doesn’t show your last selected route in the new home screen you cannot activate a ride on your last selected route anymore. That also means that you cannot activate a ride on a route pre-selected with zwift-preferences / ZwiftPref.

There is no way to circumvent this but let’s hope that Zwift bring back the functionality to see your last selected route.

How can I access Event Only routes?

Well, you can create a club and organise rides on Event Only routes, too. That doesn’t even require any kind of hacking but relies entirely on official Zwift functionality.

]]> https://zwifthacks.com/route-selection-woes-in-zwift-preferences-zwiftpref/feed/ 4 88670 zwift-preferences Christmas 2021 Edition https://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-christmas-2021-edition/ https://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-christmas-2021-edition/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2021 08:41:22 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=88289 No, there is nothing really Christmassy about it, but it has some new features. Consider it an early Christmas present for you.

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 an ‘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 show 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.

T o 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 it 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 were 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.

How to use this feature is described at the zwift-preferences page.

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Get the new version at the zwift-preferences page.

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The new Makuri Islands world is supported by all of these ZwiftHacks tools:

An update for ZwiftMap may still be needed but it will be done server-side and does not require that you download anything. It will follow soon.

]]> https://zwifthacks.com/makuri-islands/feed/ 0 88048 zwift-preferences v34 https://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-v34/ https://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-v34/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:50:54 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=87838 There is a very small bugfix release of zwift-preferences, just fixing a bug in the remember monitor and remember controllable trainer functionalities.

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Get the new version at the zwift-preferences page.

]]> https://zwifthacks.com/zwift-preferences-v34/feed/ 5 87838 What was new this week? https://zwifthacks.com/what-was-new-this-week-47/ https://zwifthacks.com/what-was-new-this-week-47/#respond Sat, 21 Nov 2020 03:11:00 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=87416 Here is a summary for week 47 of news from ZwiftHacks which didn’t get its own post during the week. It can be new features, changes, bug fixes, and website content:

Club search in Events

If an event is organised by one of the clubs the name of the club will be shown:

You can also search using club names in the Event list.

It is possible to search using short club names and full club names.

New installer for zwift-preferences

There was a small service release for zwift-preferences. No new features or bug fixes, but the installer has been updated to follow the same new installation principles as other scripts.

New installer for zwift-hotkeys

zwift-hotkeys finally got a proper installer. Besides that some of the documentation was hard to read, so it got an update.

]]> https://zwifthacks.com/what-was-new-this-week-47/feed/ 0 87416 World hack into France and Paris https://zwifthacks.com/world-hack-into-france-and-paris/ https://zwifthacks.com/world-hack-into-france-and-paris/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2020 13:50:16 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=87139 The latest update of Zwift brings France and Paris into the regular guest world rotation. Even better, you can world hack into both France and Paris with zwift-preferences / ZwiftPref.

You don’t even have to update anything – it just works because zwift-preferences and ZwiftPref automatically pull configuration data from the ZwiftHacks server.

]]> https://zwifthacks.com/world-hack-into-france-and-paris/feed/ 11 87139 See both guest worlds in zwift-preferences https://zwifthacks.com/see-both-guest-worlds-in-zwift-preferences-2/ https://zwifthacks.com/see-both-guest-worlds-in-zwift-preferences-2/#respond Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:02:33 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=86879 Zwift has two guest worlds and a base world: Watopia. The world hack works lets you choose any world other than the event only worlds (Bologna and Crit City) as your base world.

It’s nice to know what is on the calendar for the day before you world hack so now zwift-preferences can display both courses/worlds currently on the calendar.

Download the update

Get the latest version from the zwift-preferences page.

]]> https://zwifthacks.com/see-both-guest-worlds-in-zwift-preferences-2/feed/ 0 86879 A minor fix – zwift-preferences v30 https://zwifthacks.com/a-minor-fix-zwift-preferences-v30/ https://zwifthacks.com/a-minor-fix-zwift-preferences-v30/#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2019 08:08:54 +0000 https://zwifthacks.com/?p=86431 In the most recent versions of Zwift the prefs.xml setting TITLE_MUSIC was changed to TITLEMUSIC.

zwift-preferences – here in version 30 – is updated to handle that change.

Download the update

Get the new version 30 from the zwift-preferences page.

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