Hi everyone, I’m having an issue when trying to start the Zwift app on my PC. The application does not launch properly and either crashes immediately or fails to start at all. When I try to run Zwift, I sometimes get an error message mentioning ZwiftApp.exe and an exception code 0xc0000005. The pr…

MSI PE70 6QE Proc: Intel(R) Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.60 GHz Installed RAM: 16,0 Go Storage 119 GB SSD TOSHIBA THNSNJ128G8NY, 1.82 TB SSD CT2000BX500SSD1 GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M (2 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (128 MB) Windows 10 family 22H2 Did ful reinstall with full clear of d…

Following all the steps above and it works for me. Thank you!

[image] Sebastian: What do you mean by “…move past that…”? After that error msg there is nothing to move on after hitting ok, zwift launches. If nothing happened you have proved the zwift app is the issue not the launcher. There should be an zwiftapp error in the windows event viewer (applica…

Ok so thanks to Zwift support I have a workaround that works for me : I had to create a new windows acount on my computer with admin privileges and launch Zwift from there. It worked just fine. Simply execute Zwift as admin in my regular account didn’t work. Hope that helps.

creating another user with admin rights did the trick for me as well :slight_smile: not a permanent solution - but better than nothing and maybe it helps for finding the problem :slight_smile:

Thanks for the tip! New user with administrator rights did it for me too! Just running Zwift as administrator did not help.

It didn’t work for me. I created an account with administrator privileges and nothing.

Solution working from John: Hey Fabien, can you try this setting to see if it fixes Zwift for now? We’re narrowing down on a solve. Open the Control Panel and navigate to Clock and Region > Region. Click on the Administrative tab. Click Change system locale… Check the box for Beta: Use Unicode U…

Problem starting Zwift application on PC [June 2026]

Known Issues

shooj (Shuji) June 12, 2026, 11:09pm 42

Version 1.115.2 is available to all Windows users. If you’ve been experiencing problems initializing Zwift, please update to 1.115.2.

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