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Circuitous · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 25 Aug 2017 Posts: 2

Far Cry 4 on PC is somewhat notorious for its handling of FOV. This has nothing to do with the slider being "missing" on the pirated version - I've got the FOV slider, and technically it works just fine.

The issue is that the game keeps forcing the FOV multiplier back to 1x in vehicles and during certain events like opening doors, climbing, using the wingsuit, etc. I find this immensely annoying, even nauseating, so I'm trying to find a way to prevent it from happening.

I was able to find the memory address for the FOV mutiplier easily enough, by searching for my normal FOV multiplier's value, then searching for "1" while in a vehicle. No problem. I tested it, and changing it works exactly as expected.

With that, I clicked the box to lock the value, and gleefully hopped into a car... only to find that the value was not truly locked. Instead, the game would force the value back to 1, then CheatEngine would force it back to my desired 1.5, over and over again. Obviously having my FOV rapidly bounce in and out is a lot worse than just having it zoomed in.

Is there a way I can truly lock the value, and prevent the game from changing it?

cooleko · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:33 pm Post subject:

Find the value like you did before. Set it, freeze it, and see what accesses this address. When the game starts fighting with your lock, you will see a new instruction repeatedly incrementing in the list. replace that instruction with a nop and see if it solves your problem. If it does, then create an aob template for it (dont forget to roll back your NOP before trying to do this), delete the instruction from the template, assign to your table, and enjoy the spoils of your labor.

OldCheatEngineUser · Jul 26, 2020

see what writes it.

two possible things:
an instruction is being executed constantly.
a different instruction writing to it when riding your car.

simply modify it in a script.

Circuitous · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 25 Aug 2017 Posts: 2

cooleko, I found the way to see what's changing the value and the repeating instruction, but replacing it with a nop didn't help (and threw some errors).

OldCheatEngineUser, I don't know jack about scripting, unfortunately. Any general advice you can offer that might help with this, or would it need to be specific to FC4?

OldCheatEngineUser · Jul 26, 2020

make sure there is only one instruction is writing to it while in car and while walking.

and assuming its 64bit game, then xmm register will be writing to it.