I've heard KSP2 had a serious bug where it would destroy the computer OS

[ohthot1227]

has it been fixed?

[Valkyrie]

Destroy the KSC sure, but OS? I don;t think that ever existed.
I've had the game since release and never had an issue like that.. so I'd say that is was a false claim.
For the most part, low frames have been fixed. I haven;t had the KSC launch with me to space in a long time.. there are still bugs in the game that bother me, but nothing that could break an Operating System. (Winblows and Linux at least)

[Zyrohex]

Originally posted by Sichvot:

Destroy the KSC sure, but OS? I don;t think that ever existed.
I've had the game since release and never had an issue like that.. so I'd say that is was a false claim.
For the most part, low frames have been fixed. I haven;t had the KSC launch with me to space in a long time.. there are still bugs in the game that bother me, but nothing that could break an Operating System. (Winblows and Linux at least)

He's referring to the registry bug where the game was creating 1000s of entries in the registry. No it never destroyed or could destroy an OS, it may in a worse case scenario (spinning disk with millions of entries entered into the registry file) cause a degraded or slow down the time it takes windows to load your user profile when logging into your system, but beyond that there was no actual harm.

Also yes, that bug has been resolved a number of months ago.

[TargetLost]

Actually Windows 11 update (from win 10) has a bug that DOES destroy the OS.
I have to live with sudden desktop freezes of multiple seconds since on my flightsim PC.
So them messing up the registry is comperable harmless aginst this.
Nevertheless it shouldn't have happened and the backslash they got was mainly because they brought out an unplayable EA and didn't even bother to work on it and fix that for a year and so that registry thing was just the drop that made it all overflow.
But nice that it stuck they deserve it. I am really angry with what they did to us KSP veterans and what they pulled of.

[chollman82]

"Destroy the computer OS" ... I don't know what you heard but that's not a thing. Modern encapsulation and virtualization techniques all-but make sure of that. It would be very hard to do that intentionally... let alone accidentally.

[ohthot1227]

Originally posted by Zyrohex:

Originally posted by Sichvot:

Destroy the KSC sure, but OS? I don;t think that ever existed.
I've had the game since release and never had an issue like that.. so I'd say that is was a false claim.
For the most part, low frames have been fixed. I haven;t had the KSC launch with me to space in a long time.. there are still bugs in the game that bother me, but nothing that could break an Operating System. (Winblows and Linux at least)

He's referring to the registry bug where the game was creating 1000s of entries in the registry. No it never destroyed or could destroy an OS, it may in a worse case scenario (spinning disk with millions of entries entered into the registry file) cause a degraded or slow down the time it takes windows to load your user profile when logging into your system, but beyond that there was no actual harm.

Also yes, that bug has been resolved a number of months ago.

Yes that seems to be the one I've read about

But it also claims

'There was a bug where the game would create hundreds of registries, and in the process, sometimes even overwriting some OS essential registry keys. Breaking the OS as a result.
And computer formet was needed to handle the issue'

[ohthot1227]

Originally posted by chollman82:

"Destroy the computer OS" ... I don't know what you heard but that's not a thing. Modern encapsulation and virtualization techniques all-but make sure of that. It would be very hard to do that intentionally... let alone accidentally.

from what i've read: 'There was a bug where the game would create hundreds of registries, and in the process, sometimes even overwriting some OS essential registry keys. Breaking the OS as a result. And computer formet was needed to handle the issue'

[Sirius]

Originally posted by ohthot1227:

from what i've read: 'There was a bug where the game would create hundreds of registries, and in the process, sometimes even overwriting some OS essential registry keys. Breaking the OS as a result. And computer formet was needed to handle the issue'

Over exaggeration of a (largely?) fixed issue.

Apparently there was a bug / stupidly overlooked function that spammed redundant information in the reg, bloating it in the process.

Never heard of it nuking the OS though, and again, the issue seems (?) to be addressed since a while ago.

[Alshain]

Originally posted by ohthot1227:

Originally posted by Zyrohex:

He's referring to the registry bug where the game was creating 1000s of entries in the registry. No it never destroyed or could destroy an OS, it may in a worse case scenario (spinning disk with millions of entries entered into the registry file) cause a degraded or slow down the time it takes windows to load your user profile when logging into your system, but beyond that there was no actual harm.

Also yes, that bug has been resolved a number of months ago.

Yes that seems to be the one I've read about

But it also claims

'There was a bug where the game would create hundreds of registries, and in the process, sometimes even overwriting some OS essential registry keys. Breaking the OS as a result.
And computer formet was needed to handle the issue'

You can't just accidentally overwrite OS specific registry keys through a bug. The bug just created a lot of keys, nothing that can't be easily cleaned up, and they fixed it a long time ago

[Zyrohex]

Originally posted by ohthot1227:

Originally posted by chollman82:

"Destroy the computer OS" ... I don't know what you heard but that's not a thing. Modern encapsulation and virtualization techniques all-but make sure of that. It would be very hard to do that intentionally... let alone accidentally.

from what i've read: 'There was a bug where the game would create hundreds of registries, and in the process, sometimes even overwriting some OS essential registry keys. Breaking the OS as a result. And computer formet was needed to handle the issue'

What they shared is incorrect. It was writing to HKCU. Nothing was written to HKLM. There was no risk to the OS. You can find full details here = https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/219607-ksp2-is-spamming-the-windows-registry-over-weeksmonths-until-the-game-will-stop-working-permanently/

[ohthot1227]

Originally posted by Zyrohex:

Originally posted by ohthot1227:

from what i've read: 'There was a bug where the game would create hundreds of registries, and in the process, sometimes even overwriting some OS essential registry keys. Breaking the OS as a result. And computer formet was needed to handle the issue'

What they shared is incorrect. It was writing to HKCU. Nothing was written to HKLM. There was no risk to the OS. You can find full details here = https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/219607-ksp2-is-spamming-the-windows-registry-over-weeksmonths-until-the-game-will-stop-working-permanently/

Well, seems the article I read was incorrect&old then. Thanks for the correction guys