Cheat Engine

toshaessential · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 16 Apr 2023 Posts: 3

Beginner's problem, I don't understand why the base address is different. And also the values at offsets too.

In the first screenshot, if you look at the address of xrCDB.dll + its offset it will be 0x04227730. Although if you look at the result of the second screenshot of the pointer scanner, the address of the xrCDB module is 0x59040000.

Why does xrCDB not match in the pointer that ended up with offsets?

If I get the module in c++ code, I always get 0x59040000, which is xrCDB.dll, but cheatEngine specifies other values in the address.

If I add up all the offsets, they get different values too. If you even look at the first screenshot with the address and offsets even if you add 0x04227730 with the first offset 20, you get 0x04227750. Why cheatEngine indicates in the first screenshot that 0x04227730 + 0x20 = 0x5487CD20.

I've been struggling with this problem for a week and a half now. I don't understand what's wrong. Please explain to a newbie.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:07 pm Post subject:

That's not how pointers work.

A pointer is a type. Its value is another address: a 4-byte integer in 32-bit processes, or an 8-byte integer in 64-bit processes. You have to read the value of the pointer to get the address it points to.

The arrow -> means "points to", or "the value stored at this address is..."
"[address1] -> address2" means the value of the pointer at address1 is address 2.