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anildrky
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:30 pm    Post subject: Pointer scan doesn't work Reply with quote

On tutorial 6, i'm trying to use pointer scan for this address but it always came up with 0 results. I can manually find the pointer. What I am missing? In some games I can't find the pointer manually so i want to know how to use this option but it ALWAYS came up with 0 results ALWAYS in any game any time.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just tested and it work perfectly.

all what i did is:


  • find value 100
  • change the value
  • search for new value
  • add to address-list
  • right-click then pointer scan
  • change the value again
  • rescan the memory to find the new value.


Code:
offset: 0
"Tutorial-x86_64.exe"+002CAA40

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OldCheatEngineUser wrote:
just tested and it work perfectly.

all what i did is:


  • find value 100
  • change the value
  • search for new value
  • add to address-list
  • right-click then pointer scan
  • change the value again
  • rescan the memory to find the new value.


Code:
offset: 0
"Tutorial-x86_64.exe"+002CAA40


well mine is not working at all. i tried that in the other games as well still got no results. When i save the pointer scan results it end up with these files:
1.ptr
1.PTR.results
1.PTR.results.0
1.PTR.results.1

when i tried to open 1.ptr it say no results and when i tried to open 1.PTR.results it says corrupted pointer scan file and others as well.
Maybe it is the problem?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you cant open the result files, only ptr files.

and i dont know whats wrong, really i have no clue.

you can take the address and add it to address-list, but make sure you tick on "pointer" when selecting add address manually.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OldCheatEngineUser wrote:
you cant open the result files, only ptr files.

and i dont know whats wrong, really i have no clue.

you can take the address and add it to address-list, but make sure you tick on "pointer" when selecting add address manually.


there is no problem about finding manually but i cannot find the pointer when it is about more complicated multi-level pointers Sad
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

make sure the path of the pointer results only contain ascii characters
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dark Byte wrote:
make sure the path of the pointer results only contain ascii characters


can u be more specific? i'm new to ce. also i try to change the path of pointer results to folder in c: drive and it worked but i dont get it. why?

edit: i get it now. my pc username contains non-ascii character so folders under my pc username folder doesn't work, like desktop or documents. thx for help.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Next CE version should have this fixed. You can try custom CE builds to check it (you can try mine "update17.07.31 - ae5010a.7z").
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