Cheat Engine

Dlve · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:47 am Post subject: Hit the wall with Dishonored

Hello,

I started to tinker with Cheat engine yesterday and spent the whole day trying to create cheats but it's gotten out of my hands. I'm hoping some of you experienced guys could give me a hand.

At this point you were gonna tell me to do the tutorial right? Done that.

I'm using VEH debugger because with other debuggers the game crashes. It does happen with VEH as well occasionally. I was able to successfully create Mana and Health cheats.

So the problem is for example Money when I use show me what accesses this point nothing comes up. With bullets I was able to create a cheat but it only worked for one save and when I changed locations or died it didn't work anymore. If I died I would have to reopen the game and load this certain save so the Bullet cheat worked again.

For runes I tried scanning and did 27 scans. The last three scans have given me 4755 results. Here also these addresses work in this certain save but when I load a different save nothing.

Please, isn't there anybody who knows what I could try or perhaps what I'm doing wrong?

Rawing · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:34 am Post subject:

Sounds like you have to find pointers to the values you want to change.
Regarding the money: 1) Are you sure you found the right value? 2) Maybe the game simply didn't access the money value. Try forcing the game to access your money value (e.g. spend some of that money).

Dlve · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:38 pm Post subject:

I have been trying to find the pointers. Isn't that what the scan does also?
I am absolutely certain that I found the right value for the money. One indication for that was that I was able to change how much money I had.

Rydian · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:28 pm Post subject:

Right-click an address and do a pointer scan on it. Then load another save and open that pointer scan and rescan for the new address.

Do that until you're left with some pointers that work all the time.

Dlve · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:46 pm Post subject:

Could there be more than one pointer for the "same" value. It's like even if I manage to find a working value for a couple of different saves it still won't work on all of them.

Rydian · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:21 pm Post subject:

The pointer scanner will find a bunch of pointer chains that point to the same thing, but yeah load different saves until you find one that works properly.

If they all keep dying, try increasing the offset to 1024, and the depth to 6.

Dlve · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:08 am Post subject:

Rydian · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:17 pm Post subject:

Try "what accesses this address" on something like your X/Y/Z positioning to see if it's working at all.

Dlve · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:12 pm Post subject:

I don't know what has happened but manually trying to find the pointer has become impossible. Perhaps I've messed up the settings. I don't remember.
I attached a picture to illustrate. I didn't try all of the addresses you see there because I've done that a few times with similar results.

Rydian · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:04 pm Post subject:

Just use the pointer scanner option when you right-click an address initially, it'll find all sorts of stuff that manual method won't.

Dlve · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:09 am Post subject:

Rydian · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:05 pm Post subject:

1 - Find an address in one save, do a pointer scan.

2 - Load another save, fine the new address.

3 - Open the pointer scan window, close the details, open your previous pointer scan and do a rescan for the new address.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you can filter it down to pointers that stick?

Dlve · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:48 pm Post subject:

++METHOS · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: Hit the wall with Dishonored

Dlve · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:31 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately changing the breakpoint method doesn't fix the issue you can see in the previously attached picture.