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Test your Installs

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Lesson for the day -- always test your installs. If you don't, this could happen to you.

Shortly after releasing EVE Online: Trinity at 22:04 GMT on Wednesday, 5 December, we started receiving reports that the Classic to Premium graphics content upgrade was causing problems to players by deleting the file C:\boot.ini, which is a Windows system startup file. In some cases the computer was not able to recover on the next startup and would not start until the file had been fixed.


Oops.

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The *funny* thing, is I started playing that game, the day that happened, before anyone knew it was going on.

I got lucky that I both only installed the regular client, but I am also running Vista which turned out to be immune to the bug.

I played for probably 2 hours before that notice started circulating, and I LMAOed when it did.

Eve-Online is a space-baced MMORPG where you pilot, build, and trade space ships, stations, and related equipment.

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