How not to do an update - 3VE-Online hoses many, many XP installs

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I actually tried last night to download this enhancement, but I didn't have a lot of time, so I skipped it till lunch today.

 

Now, I find out that it was a good thing I did.* I'd put in 2 new video cards, and if I hadn't seen this first, I would have thought that I'd blown the system up:

http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/12/06/1312254.shtml

 

The new release seems to have gone well, and anyone who just did the standard install would be fine.* The problem comes if/when the Eve client figures out that your machine can handle the new models and skins...they offer it to you from a few different places, but most notably, from the actual logon sceen :(

 

The bug overwrites the c:\boot.ini file and once you reboot, you are hosed.* If you've got 2 machines, you might be able to use the second to look for the thread and the fix, but some folks only have 1 machine.* And others don't have a bootable XP cd :(

 

Who the heck uses boot.ini as a game file, anyway?

 

CCP made a great game in spite of the idiots they have working for them.

 

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