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jgoemat

The demo for XCOM: Enemy Unknown is available now on Steam and I want to write a table for it, but the debugging tools "find out what accesses this address" isn't working well and I wonder if they're doing some kind of debugger detection which I've never dealt with before.

What happens is that it either won't display any results when I know the game is looking at the values (I change address and health bar updates on screen) or it will work for a little while and the game will crash with the window "... encountered error... blah blah, debug or not?"

In case anyone else wants to take a look, the soldier structure has an increasing timer at 01A0 set from the static at XComGame.exe+126587C by this code:

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:54 pm Post subject:

Try enabling VEH debugging instead of the windows debugger

if that doesn't help, disable the option to override existing breakpoints as th crash you describe sounds like one of the control breakpoints by the game itself is being removed

Also, you don't need to do an aobscan, a groupscan is a LOT easier (no hex)

Botulism · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 20 Oct 2012 Posts: 3

Disabling the option to override existing breakpoints fixes the crashing, but the debugger doesn't detect any accessing or writing. Any ideas what to do now?

Dark Byte · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:35 pm Post subject:

in the debugevent window (memoryview) check which threads are constantly triggering unexpected breakpoints

Note them down and then go to the threadlist. Select all threads except those and choose the option to clear the debug registers

With luck the game won't crash instantly, and you will be able to find what accesses it
If still nothing, then clear the registers of the thread that is least causing the breakpoints, and you may have 20 seconds or less to find out what accesses it then before crashing. Hopefully proving you with the info you need