Big update coming this week

[DAVe3283]

Well, I'm excited! I am really anxious to play with the reading & writing from the V8 software, it looks really nice. I'm sure it's a tad more stable than reading/writing from V7 to boot.

P.S. No XP machines here anymore, after all of them caught a nasty virus (despite full updates, antivirus, & firewalls). Now using Windows Vista, 7, & Server 2008 R2 for months now, not a single virus or problem. Never looking back!

[GMPX]

Thanks Dave, looking at your signature I'm afraid to say the communications bus your truck uses is the cause of any instability you might encounter. This is probably why GM moved to CAN on many 2006 up cars and trucks, it's faster and doesn't crash and burn with the slightest interruption.

[ScarabEpic22]

At work this summer I was upgrading all the workstations to Windows 7 from XP because XP finally hit end of life cycle and no more updates from Microsoft. People complain, but Microsoft extended the deadline at least another 18mo from when they initially said they were going to end support for XP plus it's been out since Oct 2001, thats almost 9 years! Now that every new machine and most older machines have the hardware to run W7, its a no-brainer IMO. I know a lot of people love XP, and I do too, but W7 is better in every way. Except that it takes a little more RAM to run, but heck, with 4gb and 8gb in my systems, I dont care!


End rant on XP!

Im stoked for this update! Finally be able to read with V8 and play with other fun new stuff!

[joecar]

"V8" has a nice ring to it...

[bballer182]

"V8" has a nice ring to it...

dieselV8 has a nice rumble to it...

[gmh308]

What's an "end model number" ?

[DAVe3283]

Thanks Dave, looking at your signature I'm afraid to say the communications bus your truck uses is the cause of any instability you might encounter. This is probably why GM moved to CAN on many 2006 up cars and trucks, it's faster and doesn't crash and burn with the slightest interruption.

LOL, yeah, that's probably it. If I accidentally open my door when flashing, it drops to like 10% speed until it finishes. At least is doesn't crash, right?
I'm very happy with EFILive overall, I've been able to diagnose and tune quite a few vehicles, working around things that people thought they'd have to live with forever. Not with EFILive!

[mr.prick]

The week is almost over.

[Chevy366]

Knew V8 would be ground breaking , but be careful there guys and don't sink the whole place (in reference to Earthquake).
Glad no one got hurt . :-)

[DURAtotheMAX]

Ross this is sort of just a random question regarding the new V8 software...

Will we now be able to compare tunes that have different operating systems?

also...I was wondering if it would be possible for the software to automatically add an internal reference tick mark/notifier to the file that was most recently flashed into an ECM? Sort of a silly trivial thing, but sometimes when I have a zillion different revisions of a single tune in my "tunes" folder I forget which one is currently loaded in the ECM. Maybe once it flashes a tune, it then puts a check mark on that file icon or something?

Ben