Cheat Engine

Spawnova · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Feb 2013 Posts: 22

I'm trying to find the value of if the inventory screen is open in a game, I did searches for 0= off then 1=on which eventually yielded 30 results all close together that always pointed the right value.
Problem is, after doing a pointer scan to some of the values, the found pointer sometimes becomes ??????? instead of the right value, this happens when the game is launched and does not change until restart, I've checked the address that i used to find the pointer and it is the correct value.
A game restart will 70% of the time cause the pointer to be correct.

So my question is basically why is this happening?

Some more info:
I'm using a level 5 pointer, 1 byte (also tried 4 byte)
I've tried about 5 of the 30 addresses
Doing "find what accesses this address" always returns 0 results when i search the hex.

Any help would be great. =)

abystus · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 3:19 am Post subject: Re: Pointer changing question

Spawnova · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 12 Feb 2013 Posts: 22

I should have been more specific on that, I did the pointer scan until there was less than 100 results, the problem was sometimes when I started up the game all the pointers lead to nothing, then other times all those wrong pointers became correct.

However, if I found the current address even though all the pointers I found said ???????? and I used this address with the very first scan, I could find new pointers. These pointers would also become ???????? randomly on game start up to though.

So basically there is always working pointers in the first scan I did but if I go any further in the scanning process the pointers will eventually become nothing when the game restarts, it's wierd.

Keep in mind this only happens about 30% of the time, the pointer usually lasts through restarts but will sometimes not and all the pointers in the last scan become nothing.

Hope I explained that well enough.

abystus · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:38 am Post subject:

Try starting over, but this time change the "Pointerscanner scanoptions" from the following:

to

This will make the scan take longer (more levels to go through), but there is most likely a constant pointer to be found among those results. Usually games don't go beyond the 5 offset threshold that is default in cheat engine, but there are exceptions. If you don't find a constant pointer with 8 levels, you can always go up from there (scan may take a super long time to complete). Hope this helps.