Cheat Engine

Autem

Is there something different about how the newest version of CE deals with hotkeys in scripts? I opened up a script to copy something out of it but didn't actually change anything in it, and when I clicked "ok" to close it I suddenly got an error stating..

"attempt to index a nil value (global'hkey')"

But like I said I didn't actually make any edits, and that script has worked fine for months with no errors. The only difference is that I updated to the latest CE in the last day or so. Could the update be causing this, and how can I fix it?

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 2:57 am Post subject:

there is a change to the layout of the hotkey form but besides that not so much that should cause issues. (assuming the script doesn't use hardcoded offsets...)

but without the script I can't say

Autem · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:03 am Post subject:

It's starting to look like maybe Windows Defender is interfering with certain things CE is trying to do. Maybe me updating CE caused Defender to wrongfully block some aspect of CE? I'm also getting "access violation" popups now when I try to close/save some of my scripts.

How can I check further into that to confirm and fix it if so?

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:19 am Post subject:

Sounds more like invalid pointer operations

Does the script assemble code inside CE or does the script use usersataToInteger and then reads/modified local memory?

Autem · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:31 am Post subject:

Basically it takes a value I entered into "hp" in the addresslist and then converts whatever number I input to 0.

Worked perfectly for months. I made zero edits to it. Errors only began once I updated CE in the last couple days. The random "violation errors" never happened before either.

Interesting to note, I also have an older version of CE still on my computer because it works with an addon that newer ones don't, so I gave that older version a try and it's also having the exact same error now! This makes me think something in my system is sabotaging some part of CE that the below script requires?

Feel free to check out the script that's having the sudden issue but I have a bad feeling something else went wrong because I didn't make any changes to it.

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 4:39 am Post subject:

hmm, that script should cause errors in the game, not CE

but i would put a

Autem · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:52 am Post subject:

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:00 am Post subject:

You're doing a 4 byte value scan for a value stored in the HP variable and change it to 0

Depending on the value, this will end up changing a lot more than just HP
The lower the value of HP, the bigger the chance there's an unrelated value somewhere.