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-====== ECMLink (V3) System Requirements ====== 
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-===== Windows ===== 
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-**Windows 2000/​XP/​Vista:​** Our recommended configuration would be Windows XP with 256 meg of RAM.  You're certainly not going to have any problems with that setup or anything better. ​ ECMLink works fine with Vista and Windows 2000 as well.  And, of course, more memory is always better. ​ But the basic XP w/ 256meg of RAM would work very well for you. 
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-**Windows 7:** We're starting to get asked about Windows 7 support. ​ It seems we were just solving Vista issues a year ago... ​ :( 
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-Unfortunately,​ we do not have a Windows 7 setup here yet to test with yet (11/​17/​2009). ​ We'll try to get that resolved soon, but until then I can say that we have several users running Windows 7 just fine and several having issues. ​ It seems the application will either start up and run perfectly fine or it won't start up at all.  You should download the application off our website and give it a shot if you have concerns. 
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-We've been told that running the ECMLink application in "Vista compatibility"​ mode under Windows 7 seems to resolve the start up issue. ​ So as a temporary work around, consider doing that for now if you must run Windows 7. 
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-**Windows 98:** ECMLink does still run under Windows 98.  It requires that you use a slightly older Java VM (the installer takes care of this for you) and you have to install the device drivers a little differently (there'​s a video on the CD that shows you how).  But it does work fine.  We'd recommend at *least* 64 meg of RAM, though. ​ And more will definitely be better. ​ A quick hit on E-bay shows several recent sales of Windows 98SE laptops with 256 meg of RAM and PIII 850mhz process for well under $100.  Those laptops, assuming they'​re in good condition of course, would run ECMLink just fine. 
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-===== Mac OS X / Linux ===== 
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-Unfortunately,​ we just don't have enough experience using ECMLink with these systems to really recommend a specific configuration. ​ We do know, however, that you'll need at least Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or Linux kernel v2.4.20. ​ You can actually use an older Linux if you want, but you'll be required to manually build and install the device driver from source. ​ Mac OS X 10.4 is required because that's the version Apple introduced the ability to specify a custom baud rate (required to talk to the ECU). 
  
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