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Macadelic · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 23 Apr 2020 Posts: 4

Hello, I am facing a problem that does not come from cheat engine but I do not know where to find my answer.

Basically I created a DLL which works very well which I inject each time manually with CE
When I load my dll before the first loading in game, I have an error
Force load module failed: KERNEL32! SleepConditionVariableSRW.

But when I wait after the first loading of the game, my dll injects correctly.

I'm compiling my project via Visual Studio 2019, and I think it's a build properties issue with runtime dependencies. But I tried everything I did not succeed.

I am compiling in Release x86 and the Runtime Library is Multi-threaded (/ MT)

(I also tried to put the other choices but nothing works)

So I really don't see what else I can do.

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:19 am Post subject:

call lua command waitForExports() before dll injection

or else try reinitializeSymbolhandler(true)

Macadelic · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 23 Apr 2020 Posts: 4

My problem is that I use cheat engine to inject my dll just to verify that it works, then I use an autoinject for my game.

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 3:38 am Post subject:

You have to wait till the game has fully loaded before dll injection works. You can't inject a dll before the entrypoint has been executed

Macadelic · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 23 Apr 2020 Posts: 4

Yes but I do not think that the problem comes from there, because with the same version of the dll if I withdraw all my menu and leave that the main thing it works at startup, it is just this Kernel32SleepConditionVariableSRW which prevents the execution of my dll . I don't know what it could be.

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 6:05 am Post subject:

yes

Kernel32SleepConditionVartiableSRW is not a real export in kernel32 but a redirect to api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.SleepConditionVariableSRW

and that one is likely a redirect to kernelbase.SleepConditionVariableSRW

See if you can compile your dll without having that in there, or fix the force load module code (e.g in ce you can manually bypass that issue by registering SleepConditionVariableSRW and point it to kernelbase.SleepConditionVariableSRW )

Macadelic · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 23 Apr 2020 Posts: 4

Ah interesting, but what I don't understand is why it crashes, does my DLL need this function and it can't find it? If that's what I don't understand, it should be compiled with everything it needs right?

Thank you for your answers