Cheat Engine

[TheTornadoTitan]

My question is fairly simple I think.

For smaller auto assembler scripts, should I allocate less than the default 2048kb?

I feel like this is a lot for a simple, say, infinite money script where we just move #99999999 into our money whenever the function get called.

eg.

[mgr.inz.Player]

For small AA scripts you can even use
alloc(newmem,64)

For most of the AA scripts, 2048 or 4096, it doesn't matter.


You can even use bigger values:
alloc(newmem,1048576)

will allocate 1MB of RAM (you probably have over 4GB, right ?)

[TheTornadoTitan]

Yes I have 12 lol, but my main concern is for say, efficiency, and widened usability, does lowering the amount do anything worth worry about, or does it not matter in the least?

[mgr.inz.Player]

alloc(newmem,524288000) versus alloc(newmem,1572864000)
yes, there will be difference. First one will allocate 500MB and second will allocate 1500MB. And this takes some time (on your machine, 0.1s up to few seconds)

alloc(newmem,32768) versus alloc(newmem,4096) - no difference
(milliseconds? microseconds?)


Anyway, very HUGE aa script (many injections, copies, saving original values), will use about 200 up to 1700 bytes.

[TheTornadoTitan]

I see, thank you, in my smaller scripts that are only very basic cheats the 2048 default or lowering it to 512 or 64 Kb wont make much of a difference, but larger scripts with larger allocations will. (but even then, only if substantial)

[Dark Byte]

keep in mind it's 2048 bytes, not 2048KilloByte


Also, if you specify less it's not going to make a difference, as the smallest chunk you get is 4096 bytes anyhow. (And it actually removes 65536 bytes of allocatable memory from the target process)

[TheTornadoTitan]

oh, haha, even better then really. Thanks mgr.inz.Player and Dark Byte, I started working on a Kenshi table (as people were asking, figured I'd make a basic one), and the question came to mind. Tanks a bunch