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Not only have the support email stopped but I still get no where with this software. I have never felt so ripped off and I have been quiet about it for some time now as I was led to believe that Matrix games can sometimes take a while to respond but this is frankly crap.

What little I've seen of the game uses 100% of my system resources, uses a windows 3.1 style interface that is slow and unresponsive. It crashes at numerous points. An immediate request for money back on the basis that the software doesn't work was responded with my a request for information that I provided only to be told my drivers (the latest available for my hardware) were out of date and needed updating - I guess I'm expected to write new drivers myself am I?

Wanting this thing to work I installed the latest patch 3.7.1 (admittedly a beta) only to now see a comment that that patch has been "pulled" strange that because it was still available for me to download.

Has anyone got past the opening screen? I click loadfile and it crashes.

All I wanted was a game which required some thought to play succesfully no £27 to take up disk space on my laptop for something that doesn't run.


Potential buyers beware - I've had this now for nearly 3 weeks and it still wont run.

Steve Sharkey

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Not that I haven't done this a few times already....
 
Dell Inspiron 5150, 3.06GHz Pentium 4, Windows XP Professional (All SPs/patches applied), 2GB RAM, Direct X 9c Video Card is the built in ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 (including latest drivers), and runs at a native (for the screen) resolution of 1600x1200.
 
It may be over 3 years old but still not really too bad a spec IMHO. Certainly should be okay for Harpoon I'd have thought.
 
Steve

I've heard (and experienced) some spectacular crashes with this game, too, but nothing on the level of what you are reporting. [:(]

I certainly hope that you find a way around the problem.

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You are not the only one-


I thought I was going back in time. I have all my older Harpoon disks, including the version ported over to run in XP, and what I bought is not much different. If anything its buggier. I had seen the Harpoon game being advertised and said "WOW this is great" but sadly it taked me back to the last version before I suppose this company got a hold of it and its pretty much a buggy mess. I went through the tutorials just to refresh myself, and it would not even let me change the window name to set it to what I wanted to. Also, i was amazed to see exactly the same videos from the really old version I used to have.
Question's-

(1) Does this company own the source code for this game, and if so, how come its basically the same thing that was release over 10 years ago? What are you developing for it, the screen colors? The splash screen for the loader?
(2) I read other posts about problems with speed and AI and thats just baloney. I have over 5 computers, all top notch including a Dual AMD with 4 gb of ram, and it struggles with this game. Does not look like speed to me, looks like bugs and running in DOS mode is the problem.
(3) $45 for this game? I thought when I bought it that it would have been totally redone, bug proof or close to release and really cool with updated everything. Instead its a buggy mess and basically the old code.
(4) Patches and support? Do yourself a favor and start over instead of trying to band aid this thing.





Krogoth-


Waiting for years (yes years) for someone to do this right, and still waiting.

ORIGINAL: ssharkey

Dell Inspiron 5150, 3.06GHz Pentium 4, Windows XP Professional (All SPs/patches applied), 2GB RAM, Direct X 9c Video Card is the built in ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 (including latest drivers), and runs at a native (for the screen) resolution of 1600x1200.

It may be over 3 years old but still not really too bad a spec IMHO. Certainly should be okay for Harpoon I'd have thought.

These specs are somewhat better than mine and the game runs ok for me at 1280x1024. The mouse movement is a bit sluggish though. I think your problem is your video. Some games are not all that compatible with radeon and you might do better with nvidia.

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