EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable

Nobo writes "CCP's latest major patch to the EVE-Online client, Trinity, comes with an optional DX9-enhanced graphics patch that dramatically improves the visual quality of the in-game graphics through remade models, textures, and HDR. It also has an unfortunate bug: the incredibly stupid choice of boot.ini as a game configuration file, coupled with an errant extra backslash in the installer configuration. The result is that anyone who installs the enhanced graphics patch overwrites the windows XP c:\boot.ini file with the EVE client configuration file, bricking the machine on the next boot. Discussion in a couple of forums threads is becoming understandably heated."

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Posting to Slashdot will help

[MT628496]

Nothing like posting a story to Slashdot to help cool off a thread that is becoming very heated.

Re:(catchy subject)

[Anpheus]

Smart money is on the patcher program just creating a diff of everything on the disk from their final configuration that they liked and the unmodified version. They probably filtered C:\Windows, but not C:\