Cheat Engine

vesoljc · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Dec 2024 Posts: 3

So, I've been using CE (7.5) for a while now, worked like a charm. Recently something changed (my gut is telling me it was a recent win11 update, currently on win11 pro, 24h2, 26100.2605). CE starts normally, but as soon as I attach to a process and do a first (sometimes I manage to do a second) value search, app shuts down.

ATM, I only found this in event log:

Faulting application name: cheatengine-x86_64.exe, version: 7.5.0.7431, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: cheatengine-x86_64.exe, version: 7.5.0.7431, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000973c09
Faulting process id: 0x6C90
Faulting application start time: 0x1DB519285621A58
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Cheat Engine 7.5\cheatengine-x86_64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Cheat Engine 7.5\cheatengine-x86_64.exe
Report Id: e3c76a0e-808e-497f-a5ca-9c8631e620a1
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

I tried both x64 and x64-sse4 versions, both crash. I tried fresh CE install, same result. Any ideas?

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:52 pm Post subject:

disable pdb loading in settings-debugger

you may have the broken windows symbol handler dll

vesoljc · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Dec 2024 Posts: 3

So, I've downloaded the source, lazarus and built a debug version. It crashes in :
memscan.newscan;
deletescanfolder;
deletefolder(f);
guess the folder string is null
running debug sometimes crashes, sometimes not...

as i see it, one of those temp folders is trying to get cleaned up?

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:17 am Post subject:

run ceregreset and see if it still happens. (in case the scanfolder is set)

And check your anti virus. it may be too busy inspecting the temp files to let it go

and try a custom scanfolder

vesoljc · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Dec 2024 Posts: 3

Tried both, same thing happens....

I don't use any extra antivirus, just windows defender/security or whatever. I've added an exclusion to defender on the new scan folder, but didn't help.

So, as a fellow developer (but quite rusty in pascal code; been like 20+ years since I last used it), I've been debugging the code a bit Smile

In the

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2024 3:24 pm Post subject:

Ah, you're looking at the code for 7.5.1+ (7.5.0 doesn't have that line)

if you meant you've been using the github sourcecode instead of the released 7.5, then yeah, this was an issue with symbolsync (already fixed for next version)

Though it doesn't explain your crash though as it would just raise an internal exception which the exception handler would have captured and set to the outputdebugstring call

my guess is that you may have an external DLL injecting into all running programs which may have an issue with handling pascal exception events