Cheat Engine

[larcerkev]

I've got my program made and everything, I have to read 3 memory addresses with it. I use these three lines:

[Dark Byte]

How often do you call this code?
If it's less than 1 millisecond you'll get the same value

[larcerkev]

When I display the code using cout, it calls the code about 2-3 times and then I see the value change by 15-20ms. Based on that I think it only calls the code every 5-6ms. I also had sleep timers in so it would call the code every ms.

Edit: Here is an example of what it looks like when read. I have a 2ms sleep timer in there also.

0.8555 - 33 - 0
0.883833 - 33 - 0
0.883833 - 33 - 0
0.912167 - 33 - 0
0.912167 - 33 - 0
0.9405 - 33 - 0
0.9405 - 33 - 0
0.968833 - 33 - 0
0.968833 - 33 - 0
0.997167 - 33 - 0
0.0255 - 34 - 0
0.0255 - 34 - 0

[Dark Byte]

Change the sleep to at least 35 ms, it could be the target process hasn't had time to execute yet

[larcerkev]

Unless I can get a reading every 3-4ms, my bot is useless. I need the program to read it fast. Why can Cheat Engine read the value so well but my program can't?

[Dark Byte]

If you need to know the time then use the windows tickcount and don't read it from the game.
Cheat engine also only reads it every 200ms or so
Anyhow, after each read you must wait till the thread that updates the timer has run, that's just the way amultitasking os works. Every thread gets a few milliseconds of runtime, thenit gets interrupted, and another thread runs for a few ms

[larcerkev]

Thanks for the help, I guess I'm just going to have to settle with using the windows tickcount. Even though it makes me cringe having to request input from the user.

Thanks for taking the time to help me!