Cheat Engine

[SilentStorm]

(I did a forum search for "unpause game" and "hyper scan," and unless the answer was on page 38 of google's search results or something, I couldn't find this problem posted. My apologies if this has been brought up before.)

For the first time ever, I decided to enable "Hyper Scan" just to see what would happen. Did my "First Scan" for 300.0 (Exact Value/Type:Float), and all went well. (Important and Probably Relevant Note: I also have the "Pause the game while scanning" option selected. I always have this option selected.)

So I went back to the game, reduced the value to 280, came back to CE, but when I try to do the "Next Scan," CE throws up a "Please unpause the game first" error.

Hmmm.. Well, I'm able to continue playing the game, so I'm pretty sure it's not paused. I can't even do a "New Scan" now as it will generate the same error. My only recourse at this point is to exit CE altogether.

So is this a bug, or am I just not doing something right? (Edit: To be clear, it's only when I enable "Hyper Scan" do I run into this. If I just scan with only "pause" selected and nothing else, everything works fine.)


(I'd post screenshots for clarity, but my low post count doesn't allow it. Sorry. )

[Dark Byte]

hyperscan works by letting the process scan itself. When it's paused that just won't work. (thats why you get the message, and because the scan then stops the game resumes) Granted, the checkbox for pause during scan should be disabled when hyperscan is selected

[SilentStorm]

Okay, thanks. If figured it was probably something along those lines, hence my "Important and Probably Relevant Note."

So is there any kind of documentation (readme file, FAQ, sticky, whatever) anywhere that describes or explains all the various options? I don't mean the common sense stuff, but rather stuff like hyperscan, unrandomizer, fast scan, Direct X-Mess, etc.

I manually hunted down the help file (in the install directory), but as you know, that mostly only covers the common sense stuff.

[Dark Byte]

there is a helpfile (you can press f1 to pop it up)
Most stuff is briefly described, but hyperscan might be one of the few I skipped

perhaps someone has added it to the ce wiki , but I doubt it

anyhow,.
hyperscan: Injecting the scanroutine into the game itself and let it scan from there

unrandomizer: Replaces the random number generating codes in games with codes that are more predictable

fast scan: Only check memory that is aligned on memory locations (so only scans addresses dividable by 2 or 4)

direct x-mess: Lets you modify directx so you can see through walls and remove shadows and dark spots. Also includes some functions to lock on to certain textures

And you can always ask here

[SilentStorm]

[Dark Byte]

weird about the helpfile, it tends to work for me. Just that vista isn't compatibly with .HLP files by default

hyperscan is a function of ce 5.3 and earlier.
Since ce 5.4 ce makes use of multicore scanning, but doesn't do that for hyperscan (yet)

Also, the difference between hyperscan on first scan's won't be noticeable.
On a first scan ce makes only very few RPM calls. (it reads a block and scans it, usually at most 20 to 30 calls)
but with next scan you should notice a decent speed increase. The normal scan then calls readprocessmemory for each block of 4KB (if it can group it, else only as big as needed) but hyperscan doesn't and can just read the memory.
so instead of calling readprocessmemory as often as (totalmemory divided by 4KB) it can skip that and thus gaining a noticable speed improvement (usefull when scanning for a boolean byte that can be 0 or 1)

[SilentStorm]