Game crashes at the start

[TanePlayz]

Whenever the game starts, after the logo, it crashes. I've turned off the internet and that makes it work, untill it turns back on. Some help with that please

[Medo42]

Please ensure that your firewall software allows Gang Garrison 2 to connect to the internet (in particular, our server at ganggarrison.com). If this does not help, please provide us with details of the crash (does the application become unresponsive? Do you see an error message?)

[Derpduck]

I know this is an old bug that might be fixed, but I've actually encountered something like this before.

From what I remember, the code that checks for update messages after the logo doesn't have anything to handle requests that don't get a proper reply, so under certain circumstances where you are connected to a router but can't reach the GG2 site for whatever reason, it will be stuck checking for updates forever and eventually windows will take over and say the game has crashed.

If you aren't connected to a router at all, the HTTP functions will handle it correctly and time out the request and allow the rest of the game to run.

[Medo42]

We should handle http requests differently anyway to allow supporting HTTPS (I'm pretty sure @hikari-no-yume doesn't want to code THAT in GML ;))

[hikari-no-yume]

@Medo42 Oh I can handle HTTPS very easily, I just need to you to add TLS to FaucNet ;)