Tornado 3d version 3.0 On my setup is CRASHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[selco]

"Tornado 3D ThreeOh" was a biggest disappointment for me.  It never worked stable for a longer period of time.

The only expierence I got is:

- Install it again from scratch. Your Dongle MUST be connected to the Joystickport DIRECTLY, without a cable or switch between the port and the dongle.

- Later use it with the dongle DIRECTLY connected to the Joystickport, without additional cabling or a switch.

I made several tests and this really seems to be an issue. I guess there are bit-failures between the dongle and the port if you have anny longer cable between. And as Eyelight didn't want to give hackers a chance they dont give any information to the user about such bitfailures but do something destroing in the code (My guess!)

I could reproduce the following failure when I had a cable+switch connected during the installation:

"Do what ever you want, after about 80 mouse clicks the machine freezes."


Eyelight wanted to prevent hackers from breaking their software but effectively the prevented the honest users from using it! And they suddenly disappeared silently without a word.

I gor a used Lightwave (but still hell expensive), that was ahuge step forward, No PPC support and only poor GFX-board support but very stable and powerfull!

selco
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[selco]

"as for the dongle , its directly attached and it crash as much with it on a cable as with no cable at all"

As I said, id makes a difference not only if you use it with or without cable but also if you installed it with or without cable on the dongle.

It really seems that you are lost if you did the install with a cable on the dongle.