As a consequense of the recently developed Incursion expansion, the instruction set implemented by Intel in 2001 will now be a requirement to run the Eve Client from january 18th 2011.

This will result in a few players waking up to smell the coffee as their clients will fail to launch, should they be stuck with an old processor.

You can find the developer blog here, and the minimum stated system requirements here.

According to CCP Zulu, the team estimates that 0.3% of the players could be affected. Are you one of those 0.3%?