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Tracking Down Which File Program is Accessing to Get String

 
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Stone Ocean
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:08 pm    Post subject: Tracking Down Which File Program is Accessing to Get String Reply with quote
Hello, a bit new to this but not debugging in general. Maybe a general debugger would work better for my issue but I'm more familiar with Cheat Engine. I have a string that gets loaded into memory as soon as the game starts, before you're able to attach the process. The windows debugger crashes with this game so I'm using VEH, so createProcess won't work to break on entry. I want to find out which file the program is accessing to get this string. What can I do to figure this out? Thanks in advance.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can use a tool such as procmon for this kind of thing.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
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Stone Ocean
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2025 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
atom0s wrote:
You can use a tool such as procmon for this kind of thing.


I'll check this out. Do you have a set of steps I could follow or general advice on what to watch for? When I get time, I'll try to do my own research. Thanks for your help.

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I found out how to do what I wanted and found the file I was looking for. Thanks for your help.
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