You can not attach a debugger while playing Project 1999

[dcbone86]

Fresh install on W10. I don't have a debugger. Tried as admin and it says it can't find eqgame.exe. I navigated directories manually in admin cmd and use start eqgame patchme to no avail.

Help would be appreciated.

[Tupakk]

Restart your computer til it stops doing it. This is the only fix for this that we know of.

[dcbone86]

Restart your computer til it stops doing it. This is the only fix for this that we know of.

Yikes ok. Thanks for the tip.

[dcbone86]

I uninstalled AVG protection and it worked.

[Tupakk]

Nice. Obviously install a AV so you don't get any nasties. Avast is a good alternative to AVG

[dethret]

I found a better solution. I am also using Windows 10 and AVG and had the same problem.

Solution:
Added eqgame.exe to the excpetions list in AVG

[Jaqen H'Gar]

how do you add it to excpetions on AVG? i can't find it anywhere =/

[talian21]

"cannot attach debugger" and "cannot fine eqgame" are seperate errors; the "cannot find" often happens when a batch file (.bat) is run in administrator mode, which tends to make it start in windows\system32, since a batch file is really a dos prompt, and that's where admin-level cmd prompts start. Since there's no eqgame.exe in windows\system32.... blah blah blah...

[Baler]

how do you add it to excpetions on AVG? i can't find it anywhere =/

I can not confirm this works as I do not use or have AVG.. but here are instructions I saw someone post on a similar thread.
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2265469&postcount=43

[Lobus]

"cannot attach debugger" and "cannot fine eqgame" are seperate errors; the "cannot find" often happens when a batch file (.bat) is run in administrator mode, which tends to make it start in windows\system32, since a batch file is really a dos prompt, and that's where admin-level cmd prompts start. Since there's no eqgame.exe in windows\system32.... blah blah blah...

Edit the batch file to:

cd..
cd..
cd eq (or whatever folder eq is in)
start eqgame patchme

that will fix the running as an admin issue

[AzzarTheGod]

I uninstalled AVG protection

Cringe