Knowing what your baseline FPS is, will help you determine if any of the changes we make later are helping or hurting your performance.Ĭlose down and exit Zwift, we won't need to keep it running while we make these next changes. Play around with these settings first, before making any adjustments to your graphics card, so you know what your baseline FPS is to start with. You'll see these changes reflected almost immediately when you change the options in the Battery Saver dropdown. Moving to Medium gives me ~20FPS, up to Minimum, I get ~25FPS and disabling it entirely gives me ~30FPS using the "Low" profile in Zwift. On my 11" 2015 MacBook Air, setting the Battery Saver option to Maximum gives me ~15FPS. If you're on a dedicated, wired PC, these settings will not help you and could negatively hurt your Zwift performance. If you are plugged into the wall, you can and should disable the Battery Saver option. You may notice the latest Zwift has some "Battery Saver" settings you can use to reduce the FPS, thus saving battery for a longer ride if you're on a laptop, if you're not directly plugged into the mains (AC) power using your wall adapter. While you do that, you should see the new FPS showing up in the upper- left corner, as other riders ride by you while you have the Settings window open. Launch Zwift and go into "Settings", so we can check your performance at this point.
This setting will then allow Zwift to represent your current FPS in-game, at the top-left of the screen, where you normally see your own ride data (watts, cadence, heart rate). If you're not sure where to find your Zwift data directories, the following KB article should help:Įdit the respective file that matches your game resolution, and add the following line to the end of the file, and save the file in the same location: If you use "Ultra", you're using ultra.txt and so on. If you use "Low", you're using low.txt to customize your experience. There are some additional in-game settings you can modify that will help give you some performance gains.Įach Zwift client has a configuration profile that is used when you change your "Game Resolution" in the Settings. It is a very valuable debugging tool if you're not sure what kind of performance you're getting. The "Zwift Log Parser" will analyze your log, extracting a number of key pieces of data and produce output that tells you what your min, max and average FPS were for that session.
Grab any of your recent Zwift logs (found in your Zwift log directory) and drop it onto the top of the " Zwift Log Parser" web application.
If you have one of these older, unsupported graphics cards, you're going to need to upgrade the card itself (in the case of a PC that has a replaceable graphics card), or replace the entire machine (in the case of a laptop where the video card is integrated into the motherboard).īefore we do anything, let's check your baseline FPS. Some cards are just too old or under-powered to display Zwift in any usable way. If you have one of these cards in your Zwift PC or laptop, make sure you're on Zwift's supported list of platforms before you begin. There are three primary graphics manufacturers supported by Zwift: Intel, AMD/Radeon and NVIDIA.
This HOWTO will help provide some solutions that can help you get the most out of your Apple Mac OS X machine running Zwift.
On OS X there are fewer settings to tweak than their Windows counterpart but there are ways to improve and in some cases double your FPS, or "frames per second" while playing, er "riding" Zwfit. This is most apparent during a "ZTR" style racing event, or one of the public events such as the " World Bicycle Relief" event in early December 2015. Zwift can be a very graphically intensive experience especially when there are a lot of simultaneous riders on the screen at the same time. Zwift runs equally well on Apple OS X Mac machines as well as Windows, if you configure it properly.