Cheat Engine

[rezt0ne]

Ok I lied in the title it is completely about pointers, but I figured that the more experienced people who im relying on for help are probably sick to death of pointer questions.

I have found the address of a resource I want to find a pointer for the basic method described in most tuts isnt working. I looked to see what accessed the address and got a couple of lines. anyway im fairly certain I know which register i should be using as the code looks something like this (sorry this isnt the exact code I havn't got it open right now).

Load floating point [ecx+08]
Add st(1)
Store floating point [ecx+08]

After I NOP the Add st(1) line the resource remains static. when I do a Hex search for the value in the ecx register though I get no results. So i figured that it must build the pointer as it goes along so i toggled the breakpoint to line before 'Load floating point [ecx+08]' to see what ecx is before the instruction is run and used that but again I get no results.

Can someone put me out of my misery and explain any reasonwhy there would be no results for the hex search, other than the value of the register shown by cheat engine is not what I should be using.