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Major crash while scanning for unknown value

 
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stateofpsychosis
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:54 am    Post subject: Major crash while scanning for unknown value Reply with quote

Hi,
I was trying to hack the Kobayashi Maru mission in Star Trek Bridge Crew, I tried scanning for an unknown initial value since nothing else was working,
and my computer went nutty.

My ram and CPU maxed out and all of my USB devices suddenly disconnected and reconnected. I think this was caused by cheat engine dipping into my paging file when it ran out of ram to use.

A couple of questions:

1. Did I do damage to my computer?

2. Is there a way to decrease how much ram and processing power cheat engine uses? I already unchecked "fast scan" in the settings. Is this enough? I don't want to increase the size of my paging file as last time I did this I got a blue screen error not long after telling me that there was a problem with the paging file.

I'm scared to try it again at this point.

Thanks,

Mike
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1: no. just do a filesystem check to be sure(emg sone temp files may have been written but not actually used) but everything should be fibe

2: you can limit the range it scans. so try different ranges until you find what you need
but i do recommend adding extra RAM and clean up diskspace


where you scanning the [physical memory] process?

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stateofpsychosis
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh that's good to hear.

I already did a filesystem check and it looks like I'm in the clear.

How exactly do I limit the range?

I already have 16 gigs of ram but I guess cheat engine could use more eh?

I was just doing a scan on the exe for the game itself so yes I guess.
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