Cheat Engine

[Dark Byte]

Just wondring if anyone has seen any bugs inside CE ? Like some words I spelled wrong, a window that appears out of the screen border, deleting random files on your harddisk, etc....

I'm asking because CE 5.0 is comming close to a release. (Still needs some polishing and testing to do though, and perhaps one more feature...) And if there's a bug you'd love not seeing in ce 5.0 just let me know and I'll try to fix it.

I know about the problem with new intel's and AMD's and SP2, but I can't do much about it without having the hardware myself to test on. (I could propably fix it, but with no way of testing it there'd be a high chance CE will just completly crash instead of safely refusing a few options)
But one thing to fix that is disabling the NO-execute protection in your bios or in windows and disable PAE in windows. (check your c:\boot.ini)

[Yugo_Prowers]

Well it's not really a bug but if you could make the button to your web site open in a new window that would help I was downloading from file planet one time this huge file and it uses IE window to download so when I clicked the button to go to CE's web site it opened in the window I was downloading in I hit back space and it was still there but it was kind of funny what I had thought had just happend :lol:

DB:Can't get this to work unless I retrieve the current default browser and do a lot of programming on bringing up a second browser. (just live with it)

[Maniac]

In CE 4.4, when you start a search and use the 'Cancel' hotkey just as it finishes searching I get the error: "Access violation at address 00540971 in module 'Cheat Engine.exe'. Read of address 00000000.". Also got this error when I pressed the 'Next Scan-Changed Value' Hotkey to fast.

After tons of searching, memory snooping and pointer searching (4-6 Hours worth) the 'Hex' Checkbox disappeared, haven't been able to recreate but maybe you can track something down.

If I have another searcher (it's got a range search otherwise CE Rocks ) on a process and then started and opened the process with CE, I couldn't get the 'Load' Button to work in CE. But if I load the table first and then open the process with CE it works fine.

In another searcher I had a Unicode string 'S m a r t', when I manually added the same address in CE with 9 nr. of charatcers it only showed 'S '. What happened to the rest of the letters?

Some Improvements:

A 'Range' Scan Type, Search for a range of values between two numbers (good for float searching!).

A 'Reset' Hotkey to reset the search so that you can choose the value type again.

How about some debugger technology in the Client and Server programs.

System: (might help)

Windows XP Home SP2 & Windows 98 SE
2.4GHz P4
512MB DDR Ram
80GB HDD 5GB Free
nVidia Geforce FX5900XT 128MB

DB: I addedunicode, the client/server already had some debugger tech options. (find what read/writes) Range scan: Just do bigger than and smaller than, and floats have 2 new scan options to giv a broader rang

Also, please NEVER tell me that you get an idea from "Another searcher" I refuse copying ideas and code unless I think of it myself or get it as request

[diamondjo]

If i have say 3 or 4 saved cheats for a game (pointers) when i try to add them all to one save they seem to alter and effect each other. The pointers become normal addresses the little p before address dissapears.
If this happens i try and save them in a different order and this works.
Its hard to put it in words. I have latest version of CE and windows xp

DB:Fixed

[Davethewave]

Well, I don't know how vital of a bug it is, probably not much but when I search for my health's base pointer for Neverwinter nights it takes several minutes (which I know is normal) but when it completes it says it found a negative number of results "Found -2142370497" but only shows 16 results and also duplicates each result (resulting in 32 results, even though they are duplicates) for example It has found:
0A4DC4AC
0A4DC4AC
0CCB0048
0CCB0048
0CCB0058
0CCB0058
0CCB0060
0CCB0060 ..etc
so here we see 8 results even though it is really only 4 results. not sure if it does it with any other game, I have been focusing on Neverwinter nights and since I am just a newb, it is the game most my learning is comming from (besides the Tutorial.exe) that was a very helpful program :)

DB:Removed the double entries, and you can ignore the number found

[CodeReaver]

There are some asm commands being displayed incorrectly in the memory viewer. I attatched a jpg file with the commands it's getting wrong. It should be displaying something like this instead. I checked it against a couple of other debuggers and it shows the same code as this in both times:

[Dark Byte]

I see the problem, cmp al,2 gets marked as a 1 byte instruction while it should be 2.

And about the "Find out what this address writes/reads to"
Add the address to the code list in the advanced options, rightclick it and choose the option "find out what addresses this code writes to"

update: uploaded a fixed version.

[CodeReaver]

Thanks. There might have been a few bugs similar to that. I'll let you know as soon as I get chance to check it over.

I never noticed that about the advanced options. I really should read up on the features/instructions of things, but I'm like "No, no, I can figure it all out myself." I'm like that with everything.

About the menu that appears when you right click an address in advanced options. What do you think about adding that menu as a submenu of the one that appears when you right click a line in the memory viewer?

Another thing that would be usefull if it's not implemented already would be the ability to drag the mouse over some bytes in the bottom area of the memory viewer and either copy them to the clipboard or save them directly to a txt file. Or something like save dissassembled output but that saves a highlighted selection of lines and allowes the choice of whether to save to a file or the clipboard. (Options for highlighting and then save/copy to clipboard.)

[stomperz]