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=sinister= · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 30 Sep 2007 Posts: 15

So i'm really confused by this. This happened twice now, i'm trying to do a simple ammo hack for a 64 bit game (Dying Light) and so I go through the process of finding a static pointer, and I find one 4 offsets deep, and it seems to work. Infact, I can restart the game and the values stay the same, but if I die in-game, all the values are ??
Maybe i'm too much of an amateur programmer but I don't understand how a static value can change? Confused

Rydian · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:06 am Post subject:

"Static" is a relative term if you mean green addresses, also the path may be right but the base may change, etc.

Nowadays on modern games usually a combination of scripts or the pointer scanner work better.
http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=572465

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 10:26 am Post subject:

A static pointer just means that the base address of the pointer doesn't change when the process is restarted. The pointer path itself is probably dynamic, so if any block of memory in that pointer path is deallocated, the end result will be that the pointer points to a block of memory that doesn't exist (value = ??). So a static pointer will always directly point to some address, but that address doesn't have to have a value associated with it.

Using the pointer scanner is much better and faster than doing it manually.