I’ve used these for years to fuck around/experiment with games I’ve played to excess (single player games with no ranking/etc/etc where my screwing around could give me any kind of advantage, to be clear), and had no problem getting it running/doing what I want…
Until recently… The only thing that changed was that my OS (Nobara, Fedora based) updated from 42 to 43, and now suddenly Cheat Engine (used via steamtinkerlaunch) and PINCE (Native linux cheat engine-alike) stopped working. Even on old games I successfully used them to screw around with in the past. Yes I select the proper process.
Memory View shows nothing but question marks, value searches that used to work fine don’t return anything anymore. Like, it can see the process, but has no access to muck around in the memory itself… Since it happened with an OS update, I can only assume that something changed in the backend thats interfering with these things running, but I’m not a Sysadmin/IT specialist, I’m just a random user, so I’ve tried to figure this out myself via internet searches and the like, but I’ve come up blank on everything I’ve tried.
Anyone else out there with a similar experience who could provide some aid on the issue?
Thank you for reading.
Gotcha, thanks for the tips on that first part.
As per the last part, It apparently can sometimes find the initial value, but not any changes in the value. That CL snippet I posted before was the first time it found the first value i entered, but crapped out and found nothing on any followup changes to that value.
Its not like its a big deal, Ultimately its just me futzing around in old games for my own enjoyment, its not like I’m critically losing anything… Just weird that it suddenly stopped working when I updated, especially when you highlighted a thing it should have most likely been… and that not be it.
I appreciate you spending your time to write these large and informational replies, Thank you, they are helpful even if not on the immediate situation :D
Well, you’d expect to find some matches, just because some values in memory will happen to have the same value as what you’re looking for.
Have you tried doing a “relative change” search in
scanmem? Use “>” and “<” for “increased since last change” or “decreased since last change”. Some environments have nonstandard in-memory representations; for example, going from memory, there’s some environment — might be some Java VMs, though not sure…might be RPG Maker games of some sort, can’t recall — that stores values as double their actual value, uses one bit in the number for something else. A relative change search will still work there. I suppose that maybe if you updated the system and are using a newer JVM, that could impact the in-memory representation, but I can’t really think of anything else that updating the system would likely do.If you don’t mind sharing the name of some game that previously worked and doesn’t now, I might have more-helpful suggestions, especially if it’s something that I can reproduce easily locally (and can maybe see whether the same memory range permission error shows up here…). I noticed that you didn’t post the name of the game; if it’s some game that you don’t want to post the name of publicly but don’t mind sending me, feel free to PGP/GPG-encrypt your message.
PGP public key block