Cheat Engine

[DJK]

Hey,

I got a countdown timer in my game, like starting at 0:04:00 and goes each second down until 0:00:00.

I'd like to freeze this timer but I don't know how to search for time values

I tried searching as text and while I do find a result that goes down with every second, altering or freezing this address has no effect on the timer... I'm guessing it's writing the timer count to memory but isn't using that specific value to read from it back...

Any suggestions ?

Thanks !

[XaLeX]

[DJK]

Hmm I know for you this is is ezcake but I'm really a 1s time user on this and well this is what I tried after reading your post (which is prolly the wrong way to go about it)

I added the text value to my table, I then right clicked it and selected "what writes to this address".

I unpause my game and almost immidiately it gives me the following information:

7336547c - 89 44 8f fc - mov [edi+ecx*4-04],eax
733654ce - 88 07 - mov [edi+01],al
733654d3 - 88 47 01 - mov [edi+01],al
733654d9 - 88 47 02 - mov [edi+02],al

And well here I'm kinda stumped again, are those 7336547c for example the possible addresses ? Don't really know how to continue from here , if I'm on the right track to start with

Thanks for the help !

[Geri]

If You don't know what are those codes, probably You will not be able to backtrace the value to the source with this method.

Just try to search for increased or decreased values and maybe You find the address which holds the value for the timer.

Sometimes, seconds are counted as Float values. Like 1 second = 1 in float. In other cases they are stored as 4 byte integer values and You can find them with increased/decreased scans.

If You can stop the timer in the game somehow, it helps alot in the search because You can search for unchanged value too.

[DJK]

Hmm I tried using the value changed / unchanged but well ... not sure if my 3.3gb of mem is limiting me (I can't go higher unless I install a 64bit OS). But a lot of times CE just crashes on the second search... the 1st one gives me roughly 2 billion results (unknown value) but goes relativly quick... the second scan however usually just crashes my CE...

A few times I had it going through but I end up with a LOT of results that seem to endlessly coherent with whatever I throw at it (changed, unchanged, increased, decreased (accomplished with reloading the level), and well I tried the green ones (as I learned the black values are never the ones I need :p) but I can freeze every single green one and the counter is still merely ticking on ..

[Geri]

[DJK]

Thanks for the reply, I moved CE from my C to my D drive (C had about 30gb free but my D drive has over 500gb free ) I'll see if it makes a difference.

I'll also won't discard those black values that easily. Thanks.