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Defect Name: SE General Protection Fault Build: HCE 2007.026 SE Repeatable: Y Operating System: W2000 DB used: HCDB-0705?? Scenario used: - Long Description: After installing new HCE the SE 026 and previouse versions work fine. One day later the SE does provide the error message below by starting up and finally exit. Cannot find HARPOON8.DLL WSCENEDT caused a General Protection Fault in modul WSCENE~3.EXE at 002:01B2. Choose close. WSCENEDT will close.

Hi i got a repeatable ctd after the "Win Message" Files are attached, try the ctd save. nothing in the log files.... ctd.zip

HCE - 2007.030 ============== - Chg:0000 BB For locales where a period is not used in floating point numbers, force it anyway to avoid errors. - Chg:0000 BB Include some more battleset specific messages in the seed files for the battleset. Prevents a problem Rene reported about the game crashing after a victory condition dialog was dismissed. This one is for Rene, to test your CTD, and to make sure Save/Load work okay in the BS Bulder.

TonyE, CTD for me, see what it does for you. Edit: Attatchment removed since the issue is resolved and scen in the .zip was broken.

HCE - 2007.029 ============== - Chg:0000 SE When lots of ship/sub/aircraft classes are in the DB, it could overflow the maximum contents of a 16-bit listbox. Fix is to dynamically narrow the width of the shown fields so that all entries are shown. This will mean some country names, class names, and side names may be cut short to make each entry small enough for them all to show. (thanks Rene) - Chg:0000 GE An attempt was made to have the GE not crash if a scenario has groups with no units. What to test: Try opening some scenarios in the GE that have empty grou…

For you Rene /*--- unit types ------------------------------------------------------------*/ #define SUB 'U' #define SHIP 'S' #define CARRIER 'C' #define AC 'A' #define HELO 'H' #define TORP 'T' #define NUKEAREA 'N' #define MISSILE 'M' #define REF 'R' /* ref points */ #define VAR_ST_PT 'V' #define WEATHER 'W' #define PORT 'p' /*--- land targets are lower case ---*/ #define AIRFIELD 'a' #define BASE 'b' /* combination port and airfield */ #define CITY 'c' /* land base with no port or airfield facilities */ #define SAMFIXED 's' /* Fixed SAM site */ #define SAMMOBILE 'm' /* Mobile SAM site *…

As you've probably noticed, Herman has started reporting bugs and strangeness and is reporting them very well with test saves/scenarios, steps to reproduce, etc. Is there someone who would be willing to confirm his reports and enter them into Mantis? The basic procedure as I see it: 1. Verify Herman's issue 2. Create Mantis entry, include link to Herman's initial report at HG (this tells me where to comment back to Herman on the progress as I look at the issue) 3. Post to Herman's thread the link to the Mantis entry (this helps me know it has been entered in Mantis and how to get to the right Mantis entry) There are a couple of extensive older and less well do…

We of HC3 (TonyE, Akula, CV32) would like to welcome all of the beta testers and thank you for your time. I played Harpoon for a decade before I came a beta tester for HC2002, and have since alpha tested and programmed many creations. Each of us has been there and realize most of the frustrations and opportunities the testing brings. We want to keep the beta process valuable and to that end we expect meaningful participation, not every day, not even every week. The rules: The rules are open to argument and are not set in stone. The contributions of beta testers will be reviewed by HC3 roughly every 3 months, the first review will be in March 2008. Each bet…

Hello, attached the sequel to "The Backyard". This scen will be released shortly after HCE is out. It bases on the scen published with HCE. Comments and critiques welcome! Ok, modified zip attached, including the correct scen-file. Backyard2.zip

Hi it looks as if the old Bug with the limited Units in the Shipannex is back. I had it now 2 times that the Se is crashing when i have more than 1075 to 1078 units in my Db. After reducing the number of units below 1075 the SE works fine. Regards René

Suddenly, whenever I try to run any scenarios from any of the EC2003 or WestPac BS's, I get the attached error before the game can load. The SE doesn't seem to be effected at all, nor do any of the other BS's. Any advice anyone? Thanx: Buddha

Guns guns guns. HCE - 2007.028 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Anti-Surface gun ammo allocation improvements * Rather than assuming each mount can only fire one shell, use # of tubes instead. * Don't assume player should only fire 1 shell (pre-allocation in attack dialog), do the full calculation to estimate how many to fire. - Chg:0000 GE Mount weapons fired in current 60 seconds was being reset incorrectly, fixed it by making ROF_Divisor = 0 in all cases. - Chg:0000 GE In CheckMissileHits, show ECM reduction and such for misses …

HCE - 2007.027 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Anti-Surface Guns now adhere to mount rate of fire limitations, only after the initial allocation, player can cheat on initial allocation. AS Guns will fire the correct ammunition now, and will not 'dump ammo overboard'. Previously guns were firing one burst per 15 seconds and throwing any other bursts overboard. AS Guns by the AI will fire 2 x target remaining DP of bursts at the target, this helps reduce overkill/ammo wastage. AS Guns will stop firing when the firing platform is out of …

On a quick try to check this issue i found 3 Problems with the guns. 1. Guns sometimes are firing more than 1 round at once even if the 2. Ammo is out of range. Only happens when the longer ranges Ammo is listed below the shorter ranges weapon 2. Guns with dual purpose Ammo sometimes can´t be used at the ground range against ground targets, you need to close in until you´re in the AA Range to engage a ground target. 3. no damage on installations by Dualpurpose Ammo, no flash/hit animation! (needs confirmation!) Test Scen attached, simply attack the Base with guns and observe what happens. Regards René GUNTEST.zip

Hi There are some issues with ths tool. 1. when you include some scens in the Battleset they show up, but when you try to play them you get totally different ones(from they original/replaced bs?) 2. would be nice if there´s a way there´s a way to "remember" former settings (chart and scens)or and "Add" fuction if one want to add new scens to an existing Battleset.

HCE - 2007.026 ============== - Chg:0000 GE In CheckMissileHits, show ecm reduction to PH. This doesn't show missiles hitting planes. - Chg:2347 GE Game crashes when starting EC2003 scenarios without starting with full ordnance. (thanks Terminus) - Chg:2112 GE Really make show all and iterative saving work in release builds. - Chg:0000 GE After firing command guided missiles, if the firing unit is destroyed before the missiles impacted, the game would crash due to a null value for sourceUnit. Fixed by adding a null check, say "Firing unit destroyed" as the name…

Need your help narrowing down the problem described by Krasny, so far I cannot replicate in 2007.000 or the latest beta. http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1622196 I've also attached his save to this thread. Krasny2.zip

The Beta site lists a new DL for HCCE 2007.000 released today, but I keep getting "404:Not Found". Am I doing something wrong here? Buddha

I'm not going to be available much for the next few weeks due to RL events. I'll stop by whenever I can. Hopefully things will return to a somewhat normal state in a week or two.

Since upgrading to Windows Vista, I've been unable to use the PE. After going through a series of security warnings in MS Access, I'm finally presented with an empty DB. My attempts to import the existing platforms into the PE for editing are totally fruitless, and met with the attached error screen, which I can't make heads or tails of. Anyone else having problems like this? If so, does anyone have any suggestions on a fix? Thanx: Buddha