Cheat Engine

Hatschi

I'm using VEH debugger and it has worked all the time. After the steam update released today, all of my games (no matter of third party or indie title) crashes after attaching the debugger.

Tested on:
Borderlands 2
Strike Suit Infinity
Torchlight 2
and many more.

Anyone can confirm this or found a workaround?
This was for sure not a problem before I've applied the update.

mgr.inz.Player · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:19 am Post subject:

more details:

which OS?
architecture?
which CE? CE6.2 or CE6.3 ?

Hatschi · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:41 am Post subject:

Sorry,

Windows 8 64 Bit
UAC disabled due to registry
Administrator account
CheatEngine 6.3

Yesterday it worked flawless, nothing has changed. No reboot, just applying the steam update and it crashes now.
I got the error saying that CE can't attach the debugger and the games just crash.

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:39 am Post subject:

Looks like loadlibrary is hooked

Hatschi · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:43 am Post subject:

How do I apply this?

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:44 am Post subject:

execute that script in the target game before attaching the debugger (or adjust ce's injectdll function to jump over those first 5 bytes)

Hatschi · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:59 am Post subject:

Memory Viewer - Tools - Lua Engine -> 2th Textbox -> Execute ?

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:01 am Post subject:

Auto assembler

kl0wn · Cheater Reputation: 2 Joined: 09 Jun 2013 Posts: 36

I'm guessing this probably isn't an anti debugging technique?

Patch notes: http ://store.steampowered dot com/news/11052/

Hatschi · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:08 am Post subject:

@Dark Byte: Awesome, it's working again. But I would also like to know if this is a protection or something else.

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:22 am Post subject:

It‘s a protection against the most simple type of dll injection

Hatschi · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:35 am Post subject:

Will you add a static fix in the next SVN build?

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:56 am Post subject:

I doubt it, but perhaps I publish a lua script people can put in their autorun folder that autopatches it, or overrides the symbol for loadlibrarya to a prebuild trampoline, or fix the forcedinjection dll for 6.2 so it works in 6.3 as well

Hatschi · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:01 am Post subject:

Any possible way would be appreciated as it's really annoying if you work on steam games and you need to copy&paste the script all the time you want to attach the debugger.

Thank you Dark Byte.

mgr.inz.Player · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:51 am Post subject:

So, for now the best thing we can do is this: