Except for Fire Socks; Fire Socks are cool!
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Not for me and probably not for most people wearing those socks in game. Anyway if earning those is meaningless Zwift is meaningless (which of course it is, I mean it’s just a game) but I don’t think power/weight is as easy to game like distance is by teleporting except by outright lying about weight
The solution seems obvious: a new world called “Mesanthropia.” Completely stripped down, no visuals, no social features, no chat — just lonely asphalt. Naturally, those in favor would need to finance its creation. Meanwhile, the rest of us could enjoy fresh ideas and vibrant features in Watopia.
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You know that most of the pro peloton wears white socks, right?
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White socks (and other sports clothes/shoes) are only a fashion faux pas when wearing when not actually doing sports….
Edit: just did a bit of quick math, completing the factory tour requires over 4-5x the time it requires to earn the tron bike
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No extra funds needed, that’s already built - called “climb portals”.
Just roll out new flat routes in another portal for flat routes - seems simple enough?
Multiple people riding on one account for maximum distance per week.
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Good point — but in Mesanthropia there wouldn’t even be colors left to complain about.
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I misread that before, or rather, I assumed it made sense. 
16 mph? So your saying the tall white fashion faux pas socks are gonna smolder whenever the rider goes fast enough to outrun his own smog? Or maybe it’s a metric conversion thing… <:^|
Tbh, I’m reserving judgement; I want to see what it looks like with a dozen or more riders smoldering along in the middle of the pelaton. I suspect a higher threshold speed will be good. And maybe a “limited fuel supply.” like with the Fire Socks, so the EPA doesn’t fine us.
I’m here for a bit of fun but it seems the threshold to activate them is way too low. They shouldn’t be triggered in B-C pacing bot groups.
The solution is just to have a toggle option for that effect, along with others:
- aero socks visual effect on/off
- dust clouds on/off
- fire socks on/off
- coffee stop symbols on/off
- ride-on symbols on/off
Along with any of the others that I might have missed. The dust clouds on or off would be really useful in big groups. I see comments in the chat that the dust clouds really slow down the frame rates.
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I’m in 100% support for this. Especially the dust clouds and rain.
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Im presuming the low speed threshold for the socks is so that all levels of rider can activate them once achieved.
Which then means they are going off far to often - If a toggle for individual users can choose what they see that would pretty much solve the problem..
The thing is, anyone riding about with those or the Halo bike other riders will just presume they cheated their way to them via bots etc.. The whole achievement was diminished when Zwift allowed the gaming of the system to go on for so long.
Thanks again for another update. Nothing has changed at my end, except the update. The Companion app no longer handshakes post update. As you know, this is a day 1 companion app update issue. Please advise.
I thank you for your attention to this matter.
Ride on,
Dave.
- I love Zwift and been riding on here for 3+ years.
- This update was painfully slow to install.
- Login screen/startup of Zwift now takes like 2x as long to load.
- First time I have had issues loading Zwift and actually experienced dropouts in race on Saturday. I missed a ride start time due to the long update time. I quit a race due to 3 dropouts pushing me 5 seconds back from my group. *I am not interested in troubleshooting bt or ANT+ connections. Just think Zwift needs to smooth out the install of updates and startup/login to Zwift.
It’s quite possible that the slow installation and the dropouts have the same cause. I can’t say if it’s the game or not since everything is fine for me, but if you care to describe the equipment you are using I might have suggestions for things to look for. If you have no interest in troubleshooting anything then you may be looking at how it is for you from now on, but it’s impossible to say without knowing more details and trying some things to see if there’s a solution.
Sorry, Dave. Ordinary Zwifter here, not tech support. Otoh, free suggestions, so …
Rebooting my Wi-Fi router and cable modem may or may not have solved several of the “Zwift can’t find Zwift.com” type issues that have popped up during or after updates. Either that or the bugs healed by themselves. It’s easy to try. Tech support should suggest that, btw, Zwift. (But skip the part about waiting for the problem to heal itself 
)
Or, maybe your Companion App device and the device you run the Game on are connecting to different LANs? Make sure one of your devices isn’t connected to your neighbor’s guest Wi-Fi. Or make sure they both are. 
What OS?
MacOS has special permissions required.
Hi Paul. I see you frequently on the boards and zwift. Appreciate the response.
Riding a Stages SB20 with pm and bike connected via bluetooth or ANT+. The Bike set as controllable in zwift is via ANT+ only.
Windows 10 gaming PC with seperate video card. Had to run some Windows updates prior to install.
Have 2 user profiles - kids and mine - so they don’t mess with my setup. Zwift, OBS, Sauce etc.
When logged into my profile - set as an administrator, was getting an error that said something like Edge cannot create or write to the folder… I attempted to resolve that by changing the folder settings. Uninstalled zwift - reinstalled, same error. Read up on it, decided it was something to do with the 2 profiles so removed my profile. Uninstalled zwift - deleted any zwift folder I could find on the PC - reinstalled zwift on kids profile. Then updated Sauce and mods.
Took some time for Zwift to install and login screen. Signed up for the Sat. morning FRR race and had 15 min. to spare. Stressed and confused now about what happened. I ended up getting into the race pen with 2 minutes to spare - then the glitches in game started to happen. Screen froze which made me think internet connection - but am hardwired ethernet with a new separate card - post lightening strike. (worked flawlessly post lightining and pre 1.97 update).
Only thing different is I switched to using a 4 port USB connector. I have ANT+ dongle, BT dongle, USB mouse/keyboard, camera plugged into the connector. I assume BT & ANT+ coming through the same USB is the issue but why would my race screen freeze up on me?
Anyway - I dropped out of the FRR race after burning too many matches and glitches, opened my laptop to run zwift and did the Dadurday chase race without issue. So…its probably the connections or the PC in some aspect since it worked fine on the laptop. Startup is still slow.
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There is a known problem that happens occasionally with Windows machines that have an ANT+ dongle which causes pretty extreme performance problems. It usually clears up if you remove the dongle, restart, and plug it back in.
Since the SB20 supports Bluetooth you could also try it without the ANT+ dongle, pair via Bluetooth, and see if performance differs. I can also test mine with an SB20 since my wife uses one. I haven’t been using ANT+ for a while since I switched to using virtual shifting.
Screen freezing usually isn’t a network problem, but poor load times and screen freezing could be related to the CPU being excessively busy, and I think that’s a symptom of the ANT+ problem I mentioned above.
Using the 4-port USB hub could also cause issues, depending on the details of the hub and what it’s plugged into, like is it a powered hub or getting power via USB, and is it USB 3 or USB 2. USB 3 is a known interference generator, and USB 2 has pretty limited bandwidth.
Thanks for the informative reply, Paul. 
Now that I think about it, I have an ANT+ dongle that I’m probably no longer using – I left it plugged in to a 4 slot USB hub, after experimenting with connection options after upgrading my trainer. (And installing my Zwift Play Controllers. Virtual shifting is great! 
).
I’ve also been suspecting that inexpensive USB hub of causing occasional problems. Time to replace it.
I’m surprised no one else has mentioned power cycling their routers, cable modems, etc. I feel kinda sure that’s what fixed an update bug several years. I couldn’t even reinstall Zwift. I couldn’t ride for days! The agony!!! Ecr
[Sigh] Zwift’s tech support was “close;” they recommended that I try using a different Internet. connection. 
Ecr
But as it turned out, rebooting the modem and router was easier than carrying my bike and trainer (and my laptop, …) to Starbucks for the test, so…
Anyway, Microsoft’s AI, Copilot, knows about Zwift and power cycling routers, so it must be true. 