EVE Online Update Bricks Windows PCs

Posted by on Dec 28, 2007 in Gaming | No Comments

Good grief, Charlie Brown. Check this out:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/1312254

“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.”

Yikes!

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