You cannot attach a debugger while playing Project 1999.

[GoneSwimming]

Ok, I'm hitting the same wall. I played yesterday and I have installed nothing new.

I have windows 10, Windows Defender, and MBAM installed.

New thing that happens: When I try to open EQ my system gives me a black tile saying:

"Press Win + Alt + R" to take a screenshot. It's never done that before. This tiles sits right over the error message about not using a debugger...

Any Ideas?

Edit: That black tile is from windows' new "Game Bar". I have gone into the registry and completely disabled it. Still getting a debugger error.

[Doctor Jeff]

Did you add an exception in both Windows Defender and MalwareBytes for the client?

[gwideon]

Originally Posted by GoneSwimming [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ok, I'm hitting the same wall. I played yesterday and I have installed nothing new.

I have windows 10, Windows Defender, and MBAM installed.

New thing that happens: When I try to open EQ my system gives me a black tile saying:

"Press Win + Alt + R" to take a screenshot. It's never done that before. This tiles sits right over the error message about not using a debugger...

Any Ideas?

Edit: That black tile is from windows' new "Game Bar". I have gone into the registry and completely disabled it. Still getting a debugger error.

Update: Turning off AVG fixed this - don't know why it was necessary since EQ was in the exception list....

Uh oh, me too. There was a windows 10 update recently, but now I am worried that I may have Malware or something that is interfering. I have not installed any new programs, and have never used any game altering hacks.

btw: AVG exception was added long ago, Windows Defender not turned on

[Korjyrin]

I found that the Windows 10 Xbox game overlay app was causing this debugger error to pop-up for me. I removed it from the system using the following powershell command and rebooted. Issue was gone.

Within powershell:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxApp | Remove-AppxPackage

Read more about it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrac...his_is_how_to/

If this was already mentioned here in thread, my apologies. Hope this helps someone =)

I really dislike when M$ installs their app-trash without asking =\

[GoneSwimming]

Removing the new game overlay worked for me. I had to reboot though after removal to get it working.

[paulmccherry]

my AVG Anti virus was causing this error, I have disabled AVG for now till I work out what ports to allow through

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by paulmccherry [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

my AVG Anti virus was causing this error, I have disabled AVG for now till I work out what ports to allow through

Just make a exception for p99.

[arkkconn]

I just made an exception for my P99 eqgame.exe file in AVG and all is well.

[Beloved_The_Warrior]

I had this problem also after an update on window 10. couple people have said what to do and uninstall stuff below is what I did.
go to:

xbox app > settings > game dvr > game dvr off

restarted and was good to go.

[Larkverdin]

Originally Posted by Enaska [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks for posting the update about AVG--I made an exception in AVG for the install folder and it's working again.

For anyone else who is interesting...
To make an AV exception:
1. Open the AVG Antivirus Console
2. Click on "Options" in the upper-righthand corner of the console and select "Advanced Settings"
3. Click on "Exceptions" from the list on the left, the in the right-side panel, click on "Add exception".
4. For "Exception type:", choose "Folder" then Browse to your "Sony" install directory for EQ.
5. Click on "OK" to add the exception
6. Play EQ1999 again!


One thing that should be tested to see if it works is to have made the exception type an "Application or File" type and only exclude the Launch Titanium batch file so that it's not excepting an entire directory from protection.

This is what worked for me. Adding the exception for just the launcher as an application or file didn't work. You have to do it as a folder and just select the entire EverQuest folder. Running Windows 7 here.