<t> My first game against a human opponent ended in victory for the forces of right and goodness. While I got my main-body patrol boats single file in front of my flagship, a lone boat in a northern fjord sped into the open with radars blazing. Closing on two unidentified surface contacts for a ...

<t> I think Russell over at #harpgamer has sussed the problem (whereas Matrix help did not, giving me what I suspect was a canned reply). I was trying to install the 3.80 patch on a 3.92 installation, in effect trying to downgrade. The reply I got from Matrix said to install "all" patches, and that ...

<t> I tried copy and paste from the confirmation e-mail, no joy. I tried to install the second update, v3900DR, same problem. I downloaded the game just the other day, and when it installed, it did so in a folder called "Matrix Games" in the root of the C drive. I downloaded the updates to my F ...

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Can you check out the other patches? Does your s/n work for any of them? Are you sure that it is the exact same one you used for your initial 3.7.0 installation? No chance you might have included an extra space or dash?<e>[/quote]</e ...

"Invalid serial number". I tried putting the fix in the same folder with the game, too, but no dice. It doesn't ask for a path during the install before it asks for the serial number.

<t> OK, I went ahead and uninstalled and reinstalled, on the principle that if I didn't I'd never be sure what was wrong if it didn't work without my having done that. But when I went to run the first thingie, "Harpoon3ANW-UpdateRelease-380-Inc", it wouldn't accept my serial number. Any ideas? <br ...

<t> Wow. Thanks for the quick reply. Ummm, do I have to uninstall and start over now that I've applied the last hotfix first? (It's incredible how tolerant everybody, including me, is of this BUGGY, clunky, idiosyncratic game with its Mickey-Mouse videos, Flintstones GUI, spastic mouse, and crappy ...

<t> I fully expect to feel like a complete idiot two seconds after I hit "send", but I've just bought Harpoon 3, downloaded it, installed it, downloaded "Harpoon 3 Update 3.9.4", and installed that. I expected the game to work then, but I'm seeing bugs. Do I have to go back and install all patches ...