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jim2point0

Hello,

So I'm checking out Crysis 3. You can unlock your Origin copy in the States if you connect via a VPN - just to get that out of the way...

Now I'm trying to get my location like I do in other games. Change my Y coordinate and rescan. Keep doing that until I have a small list of values. Narrow down those values by freezing results until I find the right one.

So I pointer scan for that address like I normally do, but in this game I ended up with about 27 million results! So I did what I normally do. Restarted the game. Found the Y coordinate address again, and rescanned my previous scan. I've repeated this several times, and I still have 6 million results. Normally I'd be down to about 200 by now. The worst part is, my last rescan only knocked off about 200,000 results.

When I look at my pointer scanner window, I see the addresses are constantly changing and jumping all over the place. So even if I shove one of those into my table, it changes on me pretty fast. How can I get rid of the pointers that keep changing?

Am I just going about this in the worst way possible? Is there a faster way to find a simple pointer for my Y coordinate?

++METHOS · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:22 pm Post subject:

I have no experience with this game, specifically.

Sometimes, you will never get down to 200 or so results. Some games have thousands of pointers. Oftentimes, many of the pointers will always work. You just have to test them out.

If the pointers are constantly changing, sometimes you can just keep doing a rescan to filter many of them out (rescan for pointer address without restarting the game). Doing so may yield zero results (depending on game), so take note should you decide to overwrite the existing scan results.

mgr.inz.Player · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:27 pm Post subject:

Start with level 2 or level 3. Sometimes it is enough.

"Address must be 32bit aligned" - checked
"only find path with static address" - checked
"don't include pointers with read-only nodes" - checked

You can try CheatEngine pointerscan options:
- "first element of pointerstruct must point to module (e.g. vtable)"
- "no looping pointers"
(custom CheatEngine build, source form current SVN revision)

TsTg · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:17 pm Post subject:

Does the game changes it's image base every time it's restarted ?!

jim2point0 · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 10:28 pm Post subject:

mgr.inz.Player · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:18 am Post subject:

The best thing you can do:

1) Prepare two folders:
- first with name "Crysis3 pointers scan", better on NTFS partition, with folder compression (folder properies, attributes: advanced, "compress content ....")

- second with name "Crysis3 pointers rescan"

2) Find address. Do pointerscan max level5, size 2048 and those three options checked. Save results in "Crysis3 pointers scan". Do not interrupt pointerscan.

3) Now reboot your windows, start game, create another profile, find address
4) open previously saved pointers (ctrl+m, ctrl+p, ctrl+o)
5) press ctrl+r, type new address, save rescanned pointers as "rescan 1" (2,3,4,...) inside "Crysis3 pointers rescan"
6) repeat 3,4,5 few times. Last time, save rescanned pointers as "rescan jim2point0" inside "Crysis3 pointers rescan"

7) now remove all files from "Crysis3 pointers rescan". Leave only files with name "rescan jim2point0" .ptr .ptr.0 .ptr.1 .ptr.2 .ptr.3

8) use 7zip or WinRAR, and compress whole "Crysis3 pointers rescan". Send created archive to mediafire or zippyshare, give link
9) then wait. Maybe someone will download this archive and make few another rescans. And send you back .ptr .ptr.0 .ptr.1 ..... files.

Screitor · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:01 am Post subject:

++METHOS · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:34 pm Post subject:

I see someone does not have a sense of humor. Anyway, if my post hadn't been deleted, you could see that using code injection could circumvent this problem completely.

mgr.inz.Player · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:07 pm Post subject:

++METHOS · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:51 pm Post subject:

Of course. And protections can be circumvented as well. Very Happy

mgr.inz.Player · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:07 pm Post subject:

@jim2point0, compress those ptr files from last rescan, upload archive, post link (Single player cheat request).
Also give some informations: game version, update number, original exe or cracked.

Like this:
topic subject: krajziz3 pointers rescan needed

post content:
Game Name: krajziz3
Game Version: v1.00
Other Info: Here you may place additional info which may be relevent to your request. For example the game may need to be installed/setup a certain way, or you may wish to state that you are using a specific No-disc fix or Mini-image.
{link to uploaded archive}

Then wait. I'm sure somebody will help you. Good luck.