Hello Guys... I know I should use the dedicate forum to ask for help... but then again why not try on the main forum ?


I was playing defender's quest when I got this message from AVG

Ever since I've cancelled the message, the game stopped working....
Help !

I'll post another pic to show you what I mean !

Sounds like you should reinstall, AVG has probably quarantined one of the files. In fact, make an exception in AVG and then reinstall.

I tried to make an exception... it would just keep loading the exception screen :/....
I HATE AVG !

Look at what it did to me !

Oh no! I think reinstalling is definitely in order... and maybe a different antivirus if AVG is being broken. >.>

Hey there! Developer here!

What's going on is that Defender's Quest depends on an external utility to drive full-screen resolution-switching, which is not normally supported in the engine we used to make the game.

So, when the game wants to switch resolutions, it calls a little free utility called ResSwitch.exe (original site here: http://www.naughter.com/qres.html)

This is what AVG is complaining about - the game calling an external executable file. I can see why an overly-paranoid antivirus program would freak out about this, but I can assure you it's perfectly safe.

So, telling it to make an exception for Defender's Quest won't solve the problem because what it's actually going nuts about is the utility.

The utilities are located here, assuming you use the default install directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\DefendersQuest\NativeApps\Windows\bin\

And the actual exe files are "ResSwitch.exe" and "ResList.exe"

So, possible solutions are to either manually target those exe files as exceptions in AVG, or perhaps reinstall AVG. There is one third option you can do if AVG simply refuses to behave, but it's a little bit drastic so I want to save it for the worst case scenario.