Cheat Engine

Puzzlerf · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 18

I was working on a cheat on the game Drug Wars. I set a value to 0 and the time that was supposed to changed just disappeared. Text and other such dealing with it. Not sure what I did, but tried setting it back, didnt work. closed then reopened it, didnt fix it. closed CE and DW and just opened DW, still messed up. restarted my comp, no fix. uninstalled and reinstalled and still no fix... could someone help me, thanks.

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Seems it works when ran as Administrator... yes i know vista sucks... tho i also seemed to cause the same problem when ran that way, but somehow fixed it, but only when ran as administrator.

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Considering i made a back up of the game before i messed it up and even its not working, maybe i messed up a process or DLL file or something somehow? maybe a registry key?

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thing that gets me confused is why is the game staying messed up? shouldnt it reset after i close it and/or CE ?

now i'm gunna make a guess as to what might be wrong. tho i know practically nothing about this stuff. From messing around it seems like a Window isn't loading? my guess is i changed something that blocked the window from showing... and all i need to do is rebuilt the path. tho it still doesnt explain why after a reinstall it doesnt work...

Lord._ · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject:

Whats the process you choose?

SYSTEM??

Puzzlerf · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 18

haha no, drugwars.exe

faith1232 · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject:

lol i would try to help you but no clue how lol

atom0s · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

I had something like this happen to me with another game. The way I fixed it was by reinstalling the game. Couldn't figure out any other way to fix it since I didn't know what caused it to happen in the first place. So you will probably be best off by reinstalling.

kjmarket · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject:

Every day I'm more and more glad to not have Vista. Cheat engine cannot cause something like this to happen as far as I know. CE edits memory addresses, not game files. Sound slike a vista thing, but any version of windows will cause weird things to happen.

Puzzlerf · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 18

yeah i already tried reinstalling it. seemed to only fix the problem when run in administrator, but the standard non admin way is still messed up.

yeah i know, it makes no sense to me. but the problem happens when i set a value to 0 before i've gotten the item thats controlled by the value.

My guess is one of vista's security features saw a glitch and disabled something. tho i really have no clue about that, a complete guess based off of nothing.

i even went through my registry and removed almost all traces of the game. that might have been what fixed the Admin version. hell, even my back up of the game is messed up, never even touched it with CE.

atom0s · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:43 am Post subject:

Puzzlerf · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 18

hmm... so how do i go about finding out what file i corrupted? tho i uninstalled it and reinstalled it. so i guess it has to be some common file. and if u know anything about vista u can run things normally or in Administrator mode, and the game works fine in Admin mode. just a pain to do.