JF Tornado on Pre-Order!

[Chris Sykes]

Its a real shame you guys have problems with FPS and performance as im seeing improvements each time an update comes out.

[DaveG]

Performance has increased for me too Chris, it's now merely awful.
Seriously though, it's now at a state where I can use it without having to turn lots of other things down, but it's still nowhere near as good as it should be.

[DaveB]

Performance has increased for me too Chris, it's now merely awful.

I concur with that in every way. I have other models that take a while to load external textures and while that in itself is vaguely annoying.. you tend to expect it. Well.. you tend to expect it if you're running old kit like I am Inside was chronic. Panning around in the VC was like watching a very old 'flic' movie.. only slower. No one is more disappointed than me at having to request a refund (with the exception of JF I guess) and other than one occasion when I made an ordering cockup.. this is the first time I've ever asked JF for a refund. What's worse is that its for a Tornado!!! I don't know who's brilliant idea it was to try and make a model that pushed the very limits of what can be done in a sim but I'd imagine they're not quite so happy with that decision now
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[DaveB]

Refund received for the Tonka

I should be happy but I'd have been happier still to have a good Tornado. Let's see what the SSW model runs like when it's released
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[DaveG]

If anyone is still vaguely interested in this model, JF have now released SP3, with a long list of bug fixes.
A brief try in P3dv3 seems to show a fair improvement in FPS, although the pre-SP3 version did perform better in P3dv3 than v2.5. It's certainly usable for me now anyway. Not had chance to try all the systems yet.

[DaveB]

Cheers Dave

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DaveB

[ChrisHunt]

The JF Tornado can now be had as a demo - flies for 15 mins at a time; possibly about right anyway given some of the performance problems? On that subject, with all the patches is this now worth getting?