Cheat Engine

[512MB]

What are the recommended settings for pointer scans and how can I tell what should use and not use?

Current settings

[Prehistoricman]

The defaults are pretty good in general. It depends on what game though. Modern games can have many levels of pointer due to high-level programming, and also very high offsets due to lots of data being stored. Simpler games tend to have smaller offsets and less levels.

[512MB]

Can you give me example settings for a smaller game and a bigger game?

[Dark Byte]

tick generate pointermap and then restart the game and find the address again

then tick "compare results with other saved pointermap(s)" , select the pointermap you made earlier and enter/select the old address (This savbes your harddisk and rescan time)

If you wish to increase your scanspeed a LOT but with a chance of missing some pointers, tick "Max diffderent offsets per node" (and maybe change it to 3 or 4)

you can then increase your level and max offset value can be 9999999.

If it is a full object oriented game, you may also go to advanced options, and tick that the first entry must point to a vtable (class instance)

[512MB]

Will this work as good as normal pointer scanning?

[OldCheatEngineUser]

[512MB]

I get it, thank you!