Eve Online Trinity destroys PCs

2007-12-06 19:49:02

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blademaster: I'm moving to Brazil; +2,075|6908

As expected, the latest upgrade for CCP's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Eve Online went live yesterday. The expansion, Eve Online Trinity, overhauled the game's graphics engine, and added new ships, stations, and stargates as well. For some users, it also deleted a crucial file on their computers, preventing them from booting up.

According to a CCP developer posting on the game's official forums, Trinity was deleting the boot.ini files of many Windows XP users who upgraded from the game's old client to its new client. The boot.ini file determines Windows' operating system options during startup, and the computer cannot start normally without it. A computer with a missing or corrupted boot.ini file is not permanently broken, but it does require some proficiency to repair or replace it.

"We apologize profusely for this error and are working on offering more extensive help [to] those that have a non-working Windows PC, so please stay tuned," CCP said on its official Eve Online Web site.

Vista users were not affected. As well as those who just installed the game from scratch.

Sourcy

Last edited by blademaster (2007-12-06 19:53:52)

2007-12-06 19:50:29

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tkoi: Utahraptor!; +148|6410|Texas

sux2bthem.

2007-12-06 19:51:49

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NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6604|Atlanta, Georgia

GGF0RCE wrote:
sux2bthem.

Indeed

2007-12-06 19:53:04

#4

cablecopulate: Member; +449|7001|Massachusetts.

Too bad that didn't happen to world of warcraft players.

2007-12-06 19:55:24

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mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|6917

AHAHAHAHAHA!!! memorpehguhs for the loss.

2007-12-06 20:17:00

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The_Sniper_NM: Official EVGA Fanboy; +94|6376|SC | USA |

lol @ 10 year olds with fucked XP.

2007-12-06 21:55:41

#7

VicktorVauhn: Member; +319|6655|Southern California

wow does that suck.

Guess Vista isn't all bad...

2007-12-06 22:51:45

#8

Sarrk: O-O-O A-O A; +788|6918|Brisbane, Australia

The_Sniper_NM wrote:
lol @ 10 year olds with fucked XP.

Most people that play EVE are 30-ish. Its not for ADD kids.

2007-12-08 07:32:31

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seymorebutts443: Ready for combat; +211|6858|Belchertown Massachusetts, USA

Sarrk wrote:
The_Sniper_NM wrote:
lol @ 10 year olds with fucked XP.
Most people that play EVE are 30-ish. Its not for ADD kids.

yea what he said, plus it isnt as addicting as WoW. since you dont have to grind on boring ass quests and monsters for hours at a time. plus you can legally scam people which is awsm.

2007-12-08 09:26:24

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Gawwad: My way or Haddaway!; +212|6948|Espoo, Finland

seymorebutts443 wrote:
Sarrk wrote:
The_Sniper_NM wrote:
lol @ 10 year olds with fucked XP.
Most people that play EVE are 30-ish. Its not for ADD kids.
yea what he said, plus it isnt as addicting as WoW. since you dont have to grind on boring ass quests and monsters for hours at a time. plus you can legally scam people which is awsm.

Yeah, the better/wiser/stronger allways wins.
Crying to GM's doesn't help

2007-12-08 12:59:25

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Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6733

This made me laugh .

Install new update, excitedly go to open your game and see it in new beautiful DX10 glory...

But, actually, this update shouldn't affect that many users. For a start, it's a DX10-revamp patch, and DX10 is Vista-mandatory. This problem only occurs in XP users. Am I the only person that sees the utter uselessness in this situation? The XP users that downloaded it deserved to have their OS corrupted and rendered unusable, because of their utter stupidity.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2007-12-08 15:42:58

#12

seymorebutts443: Ready for combat; +211|6858|Belchertown Massachusetts, USA

Uzique wrote:
This made me laugh .

Install new update, excitedly go to open your game and see it in new beautiful DX10 glory...

But, actually, this update shouldn't affect that many users. For a start, it's a DX10-revamp patch, and DX10 is Vista-mandatory. This problem only occurs in XP users. Am I the only person that sees the utter uselessness in this situation? The XP users that downloaded it deserved to have their OS corrupted and rendered unusable, because of their utter stupidity.

yes, im a xp user. thanks for calling me stupid, too bad the patch only affected my graphics and not the boot file.

Last edited by seymorebutts443 (2007-12-08 15:43:08)

2007-12-08 15:45:38

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Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6733

Well, in fairness I can understand why XP users would download for the new features and new ships etc. But, to me, if I was installing a dx10-based patch, I would at least do a System Restore save-point beforehand...

Good to hear your system isn't completely buried.

_{libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual}. _{http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/}

2007-12-08 16:38:37

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unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|7035|PNW

blademaster wrote:
error

ERROR?!

If they just called it "colossal fuckup," I'd go buy EVE just for the 'lolz.'

seymorebutts443 wrote:
Sarrk wrote:
The_Sniper_NM wrote:
lol @ 10 year olds with fucked XP.
Most people that play EVE are 30-ish. Its not for ADD kids.
yea what he said, plus it isnt as addicting as WoW. since you dont have to grind on boring ass quests and monsters for hours at a time. plus you can legally scam people which is awsm.

Tell that to the people who grind for resources.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-12-08 16:39:32)

2007-12-08 16:41:52

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Ender2309: has joined the GOP; +470|6834|USA

Uzique wrote:
Well, in fairness I can understand why XP users would download for the new features and new ships etc. But, to me, if I was installing a dx10-based patch, I would at least do a System Restore save-point beforehand...

Good to hear your system isn't completely buried.

that would do nothing. if the PC can't even boot, you're not going to be able to access a restore point.

i'm pretty sure you'd need to slave your main HDD to another computer, copy its boot.ini file over and back into place on the damaged drive, and then go.

2007-12-08 17:06:06

#16

MECtallica: Member; +73|6767|jalalabad

I my boot.ini was deleted, but I could still reboot and get the backup, weird really

2007-12-08 20:38:11

#17

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|7035|PNW

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000648.htm

Some systems even have a faux disc on a separate HDD partition.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-12-08 20:38:57)

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