Cheat Engine

[Exeter]

Hey guys,

When I was looking for 'Unknown Initial Value' it worked fine and found results, but then I searched for an 'Increased value' after doing a kill in-game, Cheat Engine suddenly started to freeze up during the scan and it was unable to finish the scan. Later on I found out it had created HUGE files that took up all of my HDD space.

What's going on exactly? Any idea why it's acting like this? I never had the issue before and I've been using this same method on massive games like Metal Gear Solid V for example with no problems at all. :/

[Dark Byte]

Unknown initial value will make a copy of the game on the harddisk. (The .first file)
Next scan will first copy that to an .undo file so you can undo the scan before it actually starts the scan (usually it does that on the background, but if you click next scan before it is done, ce will have to wait for that)

So if the game uses 6GB ram, it's going to eat up at least 12GB diskspace
Then depending on the variable type each result found takes up 16 bytes or at least 24 for the all type
So, 200,000,000 results(not unthinkable) can take up 4.5gb diskspace

So, 12+4.5 seems about right

These files will get removed when cheat engine closes normally, or they get deleted after a week

There is a setting you can use to specify your own temp foldet location