Cheat Engine

aeridus · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 17

What does Cheat Engine depend on to run? Somehow my computer got fubared and 1/3 of my applications won't run for some reason. My best guess at this point is Microsoft.NET, Visual C++ Redist, DirectX, and/or the registry got messed up. Other applications that won't load include Steam games (the Steam client itself seems to load though) and Spore.

SuperMassiveBlackHole · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject:

Moved.

aeridus · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 17

Oh, and this is my computer: http :// secure.newegg. com /WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=7725125

I don't see any error messages when I try to load certain applications. They just fail to start.

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject:

Moved again
Cheat Engine requires administration rights
perhaps you're running as limited user

aeridus · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 17

Nope, I'm the admin on this machine. All my applications were working fine a month ago, and sometime in the past month something screwed up my settings. I just need a clue to go by so I can better diagnose what's going on. Apparently IE (32 bit version only) was also having trouble loading but it worked again after a bit of registry cleaning. All my hardware drivers are up to date and there's nothing that's out of order in Device Manager.

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject:

also, my usual advise: If you're running an anti-virus or firewall program, uninstall them, it solves a lot of problems.

aeridus · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 17

I've got Kaspersky disabled for now and cleaned a lot of crap out of my registry. Still no luck yet. I try to run as little as possible at a time.

I would also appreciate an answer to my earlier question: does Cheat Engine depend on DirectX, Visual C++, or any other interfaces?

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

no, cheat engine can run standalone, all the dependencies are build into the exe

aeridus · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 17

Very strange, then.

Edit:
Finally! I'm sure cleaning up the registry helps the system run smoother, but the kicker was:
sfc /scannow

Apparently I had a few corrupt/missing system files, but I was able to get them all straightened out.