Help: Vista OS OK?
Dec 23, 2007, 02:20 PM
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Help: Vista OS OK?
I'm about to buy a laptop and it will have Vista if I buy it today or tomorrow. I can get one with XP but it will take an additional couple of weeks. So far from what I've seen, folks with Vista have been able to iron out all their problems with ecuflash and evoscan. Right??? 
Dec 23, 2007, 02:23 PM
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My only issue was installing the tactrix driver. Just plugging the cable in vista could not find the drivers. The reason being. I am using ecuflash 1.29 and do not want to switch to a new version. SO I emailed myself the 1.29 and installed it fine no problems but the drivers did not install. I had to download v1.34 to get the drivers and then I put my v1.29 inside that folder and everything is good. Evoscan and ecuflash are working no problem. I havent installed logworks yet so I cant say anything about that.
A buddy of mine split the hard drive half xp for car stuff and half vista for everything else
A buddy of mine split the hard drive half xp for car stuff and half vista for everything else
Dec 23, 2007, 02:28 PM
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vista is junk, id get xp or find the xp cd
Vista is suppose to be user friendly but its anything but that, If you only expect to look at websites and use MS word, then its ok but I wouldnt recommend it to anyone that is using it for more then just to browse the net.
Vista is suppose to be user friendly but its anything but that, If you only expect to look at websites and use MS word, then its ok but I wouldnt recommend it to anyone that is using it for more then just to browse the net.
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Dec 23, 2007, 09:50 PM
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Speaking strictly in terms of Evo tuning software:
No EcuFlash support, a long-time complaint of mine. (If Colby would release the source publicly, you'd probably see a port in very short order.)
You also don't have EvoScan (commercial product; I can understand it not being available here) or MitsuLogger (pretty bound to .NET, not sure if there's any hope of getting this working with Mono). One option is libmut; while raw, it may do the job; I haven't had a chance to spend much time with it yet.
Tactrix drivers are certainly available, so that's not a problem.
All of this can be solved by running XP under VMWare, but if you're going to do that, you might as well stick with something you're generally comfortable with (I'm a Linux guy, so the effort of getting things working here is worth it to me
).
To the original poster: Vista worked fine for me for the short period of time I spent with it. EcuFlash, EvoScan, and MitsuLogger all worked, although you should definitely be aware of some of the differences between XP and Vista, specifically in the areas of filesystem security (search around for "LocalStore" application issues, where apps assume they'll have permission to write to "C:\Program Files", and data ends up getting written to your home directory instead) and the new privilege model.
No EcuFlash support, a long-time complaint of mine. (If Colby would release the source publicly, you'd probably see a port in very short order.)
You also don't have EvoScan (commercial product; I can understand it not being available here) or MitsuLogger (pretty bound to .NET, not sure if there's any hope of getting this working with Mono). One option is libmut; while raw, it may do the job; I haven't had a chance to spend much time with it yet.
Tactrix drivers are certainly available, so that's not a problem.
All of this can be solved by running XP under VMWare, but if you're going to do that, you might as well stick with something you're generally comfortable with (I'm a Linux guy, so the effort of getting things working here is worth it to me
).To the original poster: Vista worked fine for me for the short period of time I spent with it. EcuFlash, EvoScan, and MitsuLogger all worked, although you should definitely be aware of some of the differences between XP and Vista, specifically in the areas of filesystem security (search around for "LocalStore" application issues, where apps assume they'll have permission to write to "C:\Program Files", and data ends up getting written to your home directory instead) and the new privilege model.
Dec 23, 2007, 10:06 PM
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what are these for EcuFlash, EvoScan, and MitsuLogger, sorry, but i do not know. i have vista, and i could download one of them, and see what happens but i need to know what are they used for. thanks
Dec 24, 2007, 01:52 AM
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Oh come on I bet most ofyou havent tried Vista. Ive been working with it and beta testing for 18 months and it just takes a little to get used to. Works fine.
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Have you asked for it directly? Curious as I recall a recent OSX port being tested by someone.
Dec 24, 2007, 08:13 AM
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No, but until there's a public GPL release (as promised last year on his "Open Source Logging / Tuning / Flashing" forum), I'm not interested in contributing my efforts; it's more productive to concentrate on a reimplementation, or extending Enginuity.