Thread: HPTuners 3.0

Anyone use it yet?
any thoughts?
any changes for the GM 3800 ?

I guess I'll have to go check it out, has it been officially released?

I found this release statement for others to look at: http://www.hptuners.com/forum/showth...s-Finally-Here

it looks like there is a serial input function now

It's been out for less than 6 hours, nobody is going to have any thoughts yet.

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

It's been out for less than 6 hours, nobody is going to have any thoughts yet.

thats very untrue and does not contribute anything helpful to the thread

The layout is alot different and uses new names for the VCM scanner. I like a few things they did in the scanner to make it easier to follow where you are while playing back a scan. The new channels display is kinda nice and I'm really hoping the scanner is as fast as they claim, it seemed to bog down sometimes during scanning in my Silverado. The grand prix's use a much dumber PCM so I didn't have this issue.

And I can now tune the VE tables like a GEN 3 V8 computer if I wish too on mine. That was something only a secondary software could do before they started beta testing this a few months ago.

I don't think anything grand prix related has changed, maybe on the V8 side. But the 3800 computers have been out of the game for a long long time and I havent seen anything updated on them in many years.

Thanks guys.
How about backwards compatibility issues with older tunes ?
I ran into an issue running older tunes files I saved when using the beta or 2.0

I'm just pumped I can tune my 15 Grand Cherokee now.... after a $250 PCM "adjustment" that is (not that I will probably get anything out of tuning a 3.6L Pent).

Well the Dodge Viper still takes the cake at 20 credits... Wtf

Originally Posted by CrazyGuy03

Well the Dodge Viper still takes the cake at 20 credits... Wtf

True, but lets face it, people who buy Vipers dont really care about dumb investments at a high price because.... well... they bought a Viper.

Don't think of it as credits, you would be paying for a completely custom OS. I think the software on the factory PCM cannot be tuned so they had to make their own and that's where the cost comes in.

^^^^ That actually would make a lot of sense.

Well I don't want to install it just yet in case it screws up my saved tunes from over the years

3.0 can open all 2.24 and 2.25 beta tunes without a issue.

The only real issue if you want to call it that, is that your custom configs for whatever do not carry over directly. The histogarms do however.

Many members/people hate the fact that all the years they put into making configs are no longer able to work with the 3.0 and they do not wish to remake them all. They say the 3.0 offers a far better and easier setup for configs but I haven't tired it yet. I also don't tune anything but my own stuff really and have made maybe 4-5 configs total in the 4 years I've owned it.

You can just back up your 2.24 and then download 3.0 and have both on your computer.

I'm probably going to have to set aside a day after work to set it up
thanks!

got email for me to update thats it.

sub'd here so load this sh1t up people and tell me whats new.

Im going to set mine up today. I can see the config thing being frustrating for the V8 guys and some other setups, but GP guys realistically only need like maybe 5 custom things in a config. We just dont have the tables to make any more that are really that useful.

So if you just tune GPs, it shouldn't take very long to remake a config.

I wonder if the process of setting them up will be the same though or if somehow they "simplified" it. I always thought itd be cool to have the setup a little more idiot proof. Not so much for the sake of simplicity, but it would make someone who is very familiar with one platform more able to streamline into another platform. I remember when I went from GP to say a LS1, the difference is night and day just because of the PCM differences/capabilities...

I noticed that it doesn't allow you to select .bin as a file type. Looks like if I wanted to go that way, that I'd have to load up an old version and convert them to hpt.