Cheat Engine

catfood · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Jun 2015 Posts: 34

Hello, I want to try to use Cheat Engine to locate a memory leak. I know the leak is graphics related, as when i do certain things in my game that use many 2D images on screen, it often leads to a crash.
Are there any tools in CE that i can use to help me find where the memory leak is coming from? another CE-er was able to patch it themself but they arent so kind as to share their method for finding it nor the address the leak is located, so i know its possible, just not sure how to approach this.

Thanks very much for any help!

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:28 am Post subject:

something like valgrind might be easiet but oerhapsvthe 'watch memory allocations" function can be of some use

atom0s · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:51 am Post subject:

Judging by how you explained this, it sounds possibly like a release call not happening or similar causing the objects reference count to never hit 0 and be released properly. (Just a guess based on how you described the problem.)

STN · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:30 am Post subject:

I don't think it would be simple depending on the game's size and debug information available to you.

catfood · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 22 Jun 2015 Posts: 34

thanks for the replies, valgrind is Linux exclusive right? is there a good windows alternative or a way to use valgrind on windows?