Cheat Engine

TheGeekAndrew · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 02 Sep 2014 Posts: 6

Hello everyone, I am having a horrible problem with my computer crashing after trying to attach a debugger on the game (I've tested this out on assaultcube with the same results so it isn't any protection from the game that's causing this) I received an error message containing the words "memory overrun" which I assume is like buffer overflow? I would appreciate any help you guys could offer!

Thanks, Andrew.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5627

If you are using 64-bit and kernelmode debugger, it will cause bsod. If not, you should post more info (your OS, debugger settings, etc).

TheGeekAndrew · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 02 Sep 2014 Posts: 6

Windows 7 64-bit
Cheat engine 6.4 64-bit
Under debugger options my settings are:
Hardware Breakpoints.
Replace incomplete opcodes with nops.
Ask for replace with nop.
Override existing breakpoints when setting breakpoints.
Use windows debugger.
Try to prevent detection of the debugger.

Is there anything else you guys need to know?

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5627

Try out the VEH debugger too.

And I recommend to use something simple, like the CE tutorial for testing.

TheGeekAndrew · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 02 Sep 2014 Posts: 6

Same results with VEH debugger.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5627

TheGeekAndrew · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 02 Sep 2014 Posts: 6

Tested with the game. I'm getting ready to go through the CE tutorial you recommended.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5627

You don't need to go through it. Just try to use the debugger on it. Just get to the step where you need to find some value and check if you can find the code that is accessing to the value. Or just attach the debugger to it and see what happens.

TheGeekAndrew · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 02 Sep 2014 Posts: 6

My computer locks up and then restarts after attaching the debugger to the game.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5627

That can happen with certain games. This is why I said to try it with the CE tutorial.

TheGeekAndrew · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 02 Sep 2014 Posts: 6

Same identical problem after attaching the debugger to CE tutorial program.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5627

A few things you can try:

1. Try to use the 32-bit version (cheatengine-i386.exe).
2. Check anti-vir. Disable it, maybe uninstall it until you try out the debugger again.
3. You can try to use DBVM, though I have no idea if that would help, but it's worth a try.

And try to shut down unnecessary processes. Maybe another software is messing up something in CE.

Or just wait until Dark Byte will suggest something better.

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:35 pm Post subject:

Make sure you have no online games running. Not even when you use it on the tutorial

Besides that, if you have overclocked your system lower the speed back to default. Perhaps your overclock breaks the debugging capability of the cpu (most benchmarks don't test that)

And it could be a faulty bios firmware, so see about an bios update

HitIer · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:34 am Post subject:

Dark Byte · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:53 am Post subject:

It didn't stop nprotect gameguard from rebooting/bsoding your system on purpose when it detected a trace of CE