Cheat Engine

[Maxol]

Is there anyone out there that can help me with the old game Arcanum?

I already achieved a few things in this game using Cheat Engine and my favorite scripting tool AutoHotkey:

- Reading and writing the mouse position (because the standard Windows API calls to do this didn't work)

- Accessing the Screen Bitmap (standard Windows API calls didn't work here either)

- Accessing the current conversation in Memory and logging it in a textfile

Unfortunately I cannot find the NPC that is talking to the player in memory. Neither can I find the current location nor the name of the current Map.

For the location I've tried the usual: unknown/increased/decreased/unchanged/changed etc. but no luck. I once managed to find an address that seemed to work (freezing this value in CE prevented me to move in the game) but I couldn't make head or tails from this value, it was a float that kept changing in CE constantly (red), even when I didn't move in the game.

After this I tried finding more basic values like health points, gold and bullets but the usual methods didn't work (start with exact, change value in game, find next, repeat this value). Wider options like searching for all data types, unchecking fast scan didn't work either, neither doing this with unknown/increased/decreased/unchanged/changed etc.

I'm at a loss here! Who can help?

EDIT: 16 Nov 2023

I had another session with unknown/increased/decreased/unchanged/changed to get the coordinates but - because this is an isometric game - I tried walking diagonally this time instead of going up/down and BINGO! I had the x and y coordinates within 5 minutes!