Cheat Engine

[lucidity]

I've had a Lv6 Max4096 pointer scan running for 5.5 days now and it's about 70% done.

Scan Options
It is running on "Highest" priority; realtime makes my computer unusable and doesn't appear to accomplish scanning significantly faster. 12 threads are running - see attached image.

If I'm not mistaken, the memory scan range is set for 00000000 - 4FFFFFFF.

Gathered heap is not being used because I don't think it is available - can it hurt anything to leave gathered heap checked? I assume so, or it doesn't seem like it would even be an option - or should be enabled by default.

Stop traversing a path when a static has been found is enabled.

All other options are defaults.


Is there something I could do better? I did Lv1 to Lv5 scans all in one day, but Lv6 seems to be a whole different ballgame in terms of complexity. Would it be better to increase the max offset for levels 1-5 before attempting a Lv6 scan (4096 was used for all scans)?

[Dark Byte]

The heap function can cut down the number of pointers found and the time to scan alot, but the game must be using the heap for small memory allocations instead of big ones else it won't find it.

As for different options:
Try a level 6 with 2048 size, or a level 4 with 5120 size

every increase in these variables can potentially cause the time to scan to increase exponentially

even a increase of 4 bytes in the structsize can already increase the time a lot




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edit: Just to give an idea on the worst case scenario:
5696900 pointer values
let's assume that the base structure you're looking for contains on each 4 byte entry one of those values
so, with a structsize of 4096 that would mean 1024 entries in each block
1024 pointers for level 1

assume each block such a pointer points to has the same (1024 pointers)
level2=1024*1024=1048576
level3=1024*1024*1024=1073741824
level4=1024*1024*1024*1024=1099511627776
level5=1024^5=1125899906842624
level6=1024^6=1152921504606846976

so in worst case scenario a level 6 pointerscan can go through 1152921504606846976 pointers

and with a structsize of 2048 (512 entries) only 512^6=18014398509481984, which means only 1.5% the time it would take with a 4096 structsize

[lucidity]

Thanks, that helps a lot

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Edit:
No really, thanks! (check your Hotmail account)