Cheat Engine

[jgoemat]

Anyway, when I activate DBVM and have mono enabled I have horrible performance issues and bugs. I was using it one one of my computers with Strain Tactics and though it might just be that game, but I was going back to Wasteland 2 on a different computer and had similar issues.

Sometimes the CE interface just stops responding. Like adding a struct, doing something in LUA, adding an address, or some other kind of pop-up and I can edit the text and click 'OK' or try to close the window, but nothing happens. Sometimes I can get to other windows like the memory viewer, sometimes not. With Wasteland 2 I just right-clicked for the about and right-clicked and enabled DBVM on each of the 8 cores and the message on the about box changed to say DBVM 11 was loaded, but I couldn't close either window.

I was able to get to my LUA window where I was writing some scripts to help with mono debugging. Earlier it processed 9600 classes in 0.3 seconds and 40,000 fields in about 3 seconds. With DBVM loaded it took 3 seconds and 28 seconds, about 10x slower. I hadn't set any breakpoints or anything, just loaded DBVM on each of the cores.

I wonder if it might be related to the normal debugging problems where if you have mono enabled and a breakpoint is activated it hangs both CE and the game for 5 seconds, then comes back with mono deactivated. It probably has to do with waiting for the pipe hanging the main CE thread? That doesn't seem to be the issue here, I think my whole computer might have slowed down 10x on the second computer and I was able to access mono functions, just slowly...

[Dark Byte]

for the unresponsive gui go to settings and check the debugger option to wait after gui updates

as for speed in dbvm that is normal especially when a lot of taskswitching happens
you can try https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/files/2126703/dbvmnoept.zip which doesn't virtualize the physical memory, but that also means no memory cloak, internal change reg on bp, internal find what accesses using page exception