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EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable

Posted by kdawson on from the boot-hill dept.

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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  1. Posting to Slashdot will help by MT628496 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

  2. Re:How is this possible? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually you are wrong in that assessment. Anything that makes the computer unusable in its current state, such as say...replacing the boot.ini is a "brick". You may be able to fix it fairly easily, but since it doesn't work its about as useful as a brick. Just FYI, even with a bad ROM flash, you can still in *most* cases recover from. Its a lot harder to do, but still possible.

  3. Re:(catchy subject) by Anpheus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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:\