Hi,

I used to play Harpoon alot a long time ago. Like to try it again but before I buy it from Matrix I wanted to get a feeling for how well it works today and how stable it is. So I downloaded the demo, and it crashed.

* Downloaded HCE Demo 2016.003

* Installed

* Start, select GIUK, No mans land, Blue

* Press Ctrl-B for order of battle

* Click Airfield Aba

* Game crashes

I can't really think that this is normal, more likely something is wrong with my setup but I have no idea what would cause a crash like that in such a simple and repeatable way. Any ideas?

Windows home 10 version 1803 OS-version 17134.345

/Johan

 

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Well that is embarrassing, crash confirmed on this end.  It was also fixed sometime between that 2016.003 build and the 2018.010 build that I also just tested on without crash.  It is 4:30 PM here now.  I'll post an updated demo tonight unless something goes terribly wrong.

Johan, please grab the 2018.010 demo and give it a try.  You can install it right over the 2016.003 version.  Thank you for reporting the problem so well.  It really helped isolate and be able to fix the issue.

https://harpgamer.com/harpforum/topic/3446-hce-demo-available/

HCE - 2018.011 - 2018-##-##
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- Chg:0000 GE  Fixed a buffer overflow in the Order of Battle (OOB) screen
                where the 10 character unit type could overflow the 5 
                character variable that holds it. 
                (thanks jf66) 

Thanks for the update! That solved the problem. 

I've another bug report now (I found it later on in the game when I wanted to detach a patrol aircraft from a base but the recipe below replicates it and is faster):

* Start HCE demo

* Select GIUK/No mans land/Blue

* Select Bodö

* Menu->Split Group

* Game crashes

 

/Johan

 

and fixed in 2018.011

https://harpgamer.com/harpforum/topic/3446-hce-demo-available/

HCE - 2018.011 - 2018-11-08
===========================
- Chg:0000 GE  Fixed a buffer overflow in the Split Group screen
                where the 10 character unit type could overflow the 4 
                character variable that holds it. 
                (thanks jf66) 
- Chg:0000 GE  Fixed a one additional unit type buffer overflow since it
                is a trend this week.
- Chg:0000 GE  Fixed a crash bug when there is a launch planes event for a
                unit that doesn't have any planes.