Cheat Engine

[j.c]

I am trying to give myself unlimited gas and turbo for a racing game. I found the turbo value (integer), created an AOB scan script to give myself unlimited turbo. When I restart the game this scripts still works like it should.

Now I moved on and found the gas value (float). I found the value, generated the script and it works fine until I restart the game. The scan seems to not be able to find it after restarting the game.

I have verified when I found the value that the array is found and it is unique. When I restart the game and find the value again I can confirm that the bytes are still there, and after I go through the process of finding the gas value again the gas script suddenly works again. I have also tried changing the array to add bytes, confirming it is still unique it still wont work once I restart the game.

I am using Cheat Engine 7.4.

This is the gas script that works until I restart the game:

[ParkourPenguin]

My first guess is JIT compilation. Basically, the assembly code you see gets created the first time it needs to be run. It doesn't exist before then. The turbo script always works because the code is always JIT-compiled before the script needs to be enabled. The gas script only works if you perform a certain action in game that JIT-compiles the code.

There aren't any easy ways around that other than to always do that certain action in game before enabling the script for the first time.

You could target the bytecode being JIT-compiled, but that's too annoying without a decompiler. Using a different injection point is sometimes an option, but that wouldn't directly help here.

[j.c]

Will this problem also exist if I make a trainer for it?

[ParkourPenguin]

Yes. The only difference between a trainer and a cheat table is how it's presented to the user. The general mechanics behind how they work stay the same.