I just purchased a new Microsoft Copilot Surface Pro with an OLED screen last night. It’s super-nice bordering on decadent compared to the old Windows computer I was using. Everything is up and running fine and I did a ride today. The colors on the tablet are perfectly fine with other applications, and the colors in the Zwift homescreens look great, but the colors in the Zwift worlds are extreme! It’s like I’ve been transported into a pastel world, with pastel pinks and and purples and powder blues, etc… The rocks on the mountains, helmets, and bicycles in particular are the most nauseating, but it’s all way, way off. After looking at the screen for even a few minutes, my eyes/brain become very unhappy. I attempted to adjust color settings on the tablet, but no luck. I couldn’t really find any major color setting choices within the Zwift settings. I uninstalled/reinstalled Zwift, but no luck. Has anyone experienced this and have a solution?
TL;DR You’re probably slightly fortunate it runs at all on an ARM64 processor. You’re running Zwift under x86_64 emulation right now, expect some things to not be quite right, but also expect it to get better, though it could take a while.
This is reminiscent of when the M1 Macs were launched. We waited a good while for ‘official’ support for that, and it ran under Rosetta until a native ARM version of Zwift was finally launched (22 months after Apple Silicon Macs first shipped).
What you really need is for a Zwift-provided ARM64 version of the app for Win11.
From the Zwift support article:
PCs using 64-bit ARM processors, like the Microsoft Surface Pro X—are not supported at this time
If you’re running it in full screen mode, also test in windowed mode and see if there’s a difference.
Thank you for this information! I’ve never been good at reading instructions, so I must admit that I didn’t even think to research this compatibility thing before buying the tablet. Oh, well, it’s still a cool little tablet. I guess I’ll use my Apple MacBook for the foreseeable future…