Cheat Engine

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I have two nearly identical processes, with the exception of PID and peak working set.
Luckily, the one I need always has a higher amount of memory consumption, so all I would need is a way to retrieve and compare the PWS of the 2 processes.
Is this possible via scripting?

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Alternatively... If this functionality is not built into CE 6.2, then are there any resources floating around on compiling the source code using MSVC (so that I may include it)?

[Dark Byte]

If normal memory usage is useful as well (instead of working set) you could execute the tasklist.exe program in the windows path to get a processlist with the memory usage.
Parse through that list to find the proper pid

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There's really no other method?
E.g checking if a specific module is loaded using getAddress() ? Or checking if a specific address exists ? (e.g openProcess(pid) check if correct, if not, try other)

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That's already in ce.
But instead of a folder it will load it from the registry in settings. (Although you could place a .lua file in the autorun folder that calls loadPlugin() to load the plugin)

The plugin system exposes the lua state pointer, so you can add new functions

[Gniarf]

1-Cheat engine already supports plugins, look at your \Cheat Engine 6.2\plugins\example-c directory .

2-To get the pid of the MyProcess.exe with the highest peak working set via lua you can use the following, if you have powershell installed:

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As an alternate to powershell you could write your own console application that outputs the data

[Rectangle]

Okay, so I made a basic win32 console app in C++ which, given a search token, finds any matching processes and outputs the pid with the highest PWS from that list of matches.
Tested several times, and it works perfectly.
And yet, for some reason, CE's output window refuses to display anything except a newline ('\n') character.
Here's the script I'm using:

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The 4shared link seems to be broken www.4shared.com/folder/EZRY0a-h/_online.html and pastebin as usual blocks me (probably too much damaging information posted about the dutch government so that they had to block it...)

All I can say is that the lua code is fine, as this code:

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It works for me

edit: ah ok, you found it. (yeah, uac sucks, which is why I usually have it disabled)