Cheat Engine

[Darksoup]

So I am currently doing a pointer scan and noticed that the "Unique pointervalues in target" isn't going up anymore. Basicaly it is stuck. What does this mean? Can I stop?

[OldCheatEngineUser]

let the scanner do it job, just dont terminate it.

[Dark Byte]

unique pointervalues never goes up after a scan has started
but a level 20 scan will take a long time yes.

you can stop it if you wish and see some results, but be aware that the pointerscan will have only scanned 0.0001 % of the pointers

[OldCheatEngineUser]

how did db knew its level 20? by counting the '0's

[Darksoup]

so how long is "a long time"? 0.0001 % of the pointers doesn't sound like very much. My max offset was 256 and I have an i5 processor if that helps

edit: i try to keep my workercount at max. In the 2 screenshot it was 2 at the time

[Dark Byte]

is the target 32 or 64 bit ?

assuming 32 bit:
In the worst case scenario:
an offset of 256 can create (256/4=)64 pointers per iteration

first level 64, second level 64*64, third level 64*64*64, ...

20 levels around 64^20: 132922799578491587290380706028030000

You got to 5189871407499 pointers, so you're at about:
5189871407499/132922799578491587290380706028030000*100=
0.00000000000000000000039%

In the worst case scenario of course. If not every single address is a pointer it'll be less


Also, an offset of 256 is too small for most games to find anything useful

[Darksoup]

My version is 64 bit and the game is Endless Sky

[Dark Byte]

In that case you're at 5189871407499/1267650600228229401496703205376*100=0.0000000000000041%

Did you at least do this scan with a secondary pointermap? Else the number of found results says nothing either