I am going to start tuning for my 95' OBDI LT1 car.

Recently got a laptop off a friend that is god awful slow (cause it has been p04n'ed out) so I am deleted all kinds of ****, and debating whether to ditch XP for an older operating system.

The computer will be used exclusively for tuning and playing Duke Nukem while driving around so I have zero qualms about "downgrading" to a better version of that **** we call Windows ...

Suggestions?

Or would you just stick with XP?

Joe




PS - Still haven't entirely ruled out LT1 Edit, but Tuner Cat seems to give me more options and doesn't lock me to a particular PCM. And it is cheaper

 

Xp has always been fine for me to do anything I needed to with tuning. I don't see any benefit in going to something older.

ps- entirely rule out lt1 edit, tunercat will do whatever you want to.

 

Tunercat works fine on my old W98 garage computer.

 

I prefer XP, and haven't been able to get Tunercat to work with Vista (2 diff laptops)

 

I still use Win98 for my dedicated tuning PCs, both the desktop I have in the garage and my laptop (which is set for dual boot with WINXP for non-tuning stuff). Both are older equipment (Pentium 3 systems), so XP isn't always the fastest choice in my experience. I don't seem to have any problems running Tunercat on XP or 98, so that shouldn't be an issue.

As for LT1Edit, don't waste your money. Get Tunercat.

 

That stinks, I just bought a new laptop that has Vista. I emailed the people at Tuner Cat, and here is the response I got:

Hi Nick,

Yes, the program will run under Windows Vista. We have not done any testing with Windows 7 yet but we do have one customer who ran it under Windows 7 without any problems

Best regards,

TC

 

i run TC on vista no problem...however, for datalogging, dont even think of vista Freescan wont load properly, and datamaster will not work either.

I am picking up an old fujitsubo laptop from a friend for $100 for datalogging.

 

Looks like I will still have to keep my old Toshiba Pentium 1 with Windows 95 on it for Freescan, or data logging.


Nick

 

Acer 4420 running under Vista Home Premium here. TunerCat (rev 2.23) runs with no difficulties. FreeScan (rev 2.10) alway loads, usually runs but when logging to a .csv file, during the collecting it sometimes writes the same time slice repeatedly. Using the "force data" button will force it to write fresh data. Welcome to the "magic" of windows ...

 

Well guys I got the computer up and running. I am using a hacked version of XP that pretty much eliminates all the bull **** that makes it a memory hog and adds some options. We will see how this OS dilemma turns out ...

But assuming I have no problems - I went ahead and got TunerCAT and the $EE Definition file. I have my cable. And I downloaded FreeScan and the trail version of Datamaster ...

As soon as I get my new lap top battery, I will test the stuff out! I really do need to hook up my Wide Band first though so I have a more solid idea of the A/F before I play with things...

 

What wideband hardware/software do you have?

 

Got an Innovate LC-1 sitting in my bedroom. Maybe over the next couple weeks I will get that **** installed and rolling...

 

Do not rely upon a laptop battery while tuning, especially if you are writing to the PCM. Get yourself a good inverter from Walmart or a hardware store and hardwire it to your battery. It will save you the trouble of fried PCMs.

 

Why do you hardwire it?

To prevent some bull**** failure from a blown cig lighter fuse or something?

 

I think the most stable power is from the laptop's own battery. Just put it on the charger to top it off just before loading a tune. The tune load only takes about 4 minutes.