Zwift Freezing on Startup on Asus ROG Flow Z13

[Jackson_Halupnik (Jackson)]

When attempting to start Zwift on my ROG Flow Z13 I am able to hit “Let’s Go” and the Blue Z screen shows up and gives a few “Ride On” messages but then eventually freezes with the main menu music playing.

I have made sure my PC is up to date and am not seeing this issue on my other PCs. I’ve tried reinstalling everything, running in certain compatibility modes but always have the same issue.

Others seem to be having the same issue. I just downloaded Zwift for the first time this week so I just saw the issue but some of the reddit posts describing about the same issue go back 6 months.

Attached some photos on what the freeze looks like and my Flow Z13 specs

[Jackson_Halupnik (Jackson)]

I assume it has something to do with the x64 processor but I don’t know of any workarounds currently.

[Steve_Hammatt (Steve)]

Probably this problem connected with Windows updates.

Zwift freezing during startup and locking Windows [January 2026]

Zwift has suddenly started to freeze during the startup process and then locks up my entire PC (windows 10) forcing me to do a hard reset. It was working fine a couple of days ago. The log files don’t show any errors, everything just freezes until I hard reboot the pc. I’ve tried resintalling every…

[Jackson_Halupnik (Jackson)]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that wasn’t it either. I saw that thread the other day and rolled back all those updates but still ran into the same freeze

[Carl_Watts (Carl)]

That’s one expensive laptop, way more than I paid for my gaming rig with a Ryzen 9 7950X and RTX5070 and 64GB on Windows 11 Pro few months ago before prices went boom.

[Jackson_Halupnik (Jackson)]

Haha yeah it wasn’t cheap. I love it though. It outperforms my desktop gaming rig which is insane for a Microsoft surface type device.

[Leedsarmy (James)]

@Jackson_Halupnik I have the exact same issue. Just posted on the other tread about the Windows Updates. Similar spec laptop (HP ZBook Ultra G1a)

@Leedsarmy

Took delivery of my Jetblack Victory today. Excited to fire it up and get riding but cannot get past the blue loading screen!! Just freezes and says not responding. Windows 11, Build 26200.7705, Windows Update KB5074105. Have tried pretty much everything on this thread (including rolling back updates to when I bought the laptop) and wasted almost a whole day but still made no progress. Laptop is only 2 months old, AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro395 with Radeon 8060s graphics, 128GB RAM, SSD’s etc so all powerful stuff. Assumed it would be flying but sadly not. Feeling really deflated and presumably if there is no fix I will have to face the prospect of investing more money to buy a tablet or something just to play???

Have you had any luck yet? I get to the exact same point as you as your image

[Paul_Southworth (Paul)]

Another one…

Freezing/Crashing on AMD integrated GPUs [November 2024]

Hi everyone, I recently bought a brand-new gaming notebook/tablet, the ASUS ROG Flow Z13, and did a completely fresh Windows installation with the official ASUS drivers. Unfortunately, Zwift crashes immediately on startup. I managed to get it running by copying my prefs.xml from an old laptop and …

[Daniel_Rausch (Daniel)]

I managed to get Zwift run by copying my prefs.xml from an old laptop and setting Fullscreen = 1. In fullscreen mode, Zwift runs perfectly at 120–140 FPS.

But with Windowed-Mode ist Crashes on my Z13 32GB 2025.