Post "Cheat Engine 7.4 Release" by "cheatengine" from patreon

ioan

salu cu cine pot sa vb

snikskryt

Kind of absurd that you allow the free version to contain viruses and malware. Clearly money means more to you than people. If it's so important to make money on every download, you should make the patreon version THE ONLY version. It's really shameful behaviour

shawn

its works

Salad Fingers

@Hunter Miko ???

Hunter Miko

never mind just instal it and its safe thank you, now i can enjoy my game

Eric Heijnen

CheatEngine74P.exe

David Reyes

Hi i was wondering which is the clean download?

Eric Heijnen

try the runtimemodifier, but pretty much yes, you still need to allow it on your anti virus. At least here when it works you can just click on agree and next without worry. You can also try https://cheatengine.org/nosetup.php

Raul Delao

so i donated to patreon just to get the same error?

Eric Heijnen

cheatengine.org is currently down due to crashed harddisks. It will take a while before it's up again (may take a day)

Epic_GlowzZ

I downloaded the installer but when i press next when I accept the agreement it just freezes. I can't get past it. I'm on Win10. I have disabled my anti-virus but still nothing. Do you know a fix?

MICHAEL

how do i download the cheat engine for my pc im New

Eric Heijnen

The released version not so much, but i did post a beta version yesterday in the #stuff channel on discord that works a lot better on M1

Darío Alberto Vásquez Guzmán

q: CE does work in M1 Mac?

Daniel Lazaroiu

The game I am running in wine (sims 1) needs wine OS settings < vista to work; running the CE setup with win10 settings fixed the installation issue. Also, CE runs normally using the winXP compat. settings

Eric Heijnen

I'm sure there is a setting somewhere in wine to return the correct version. Or is this an issue where you're running a 32 bit wine while CE is 64 bit?

Daniel Lazaroiu

Hello, if I try to install/run CE for windows in wine (wine32on64 macosx) I always get an error telling me that my current version of windows is not supported. Any way to bypass this?

Eric Heijnen

If not open then it should be fine unless for some reason you used the kernelmode options . Then it will be in memory even when closed. To close it then you have to run the kernelmoduleunloader.exe that cokes with CE

Itzmecolin

if i have this downloaded but not open will anti cheat still find it?

gabriel n

awesome!

Eric Heijnen

I think if you connect your discord account to patreon (or patreon on discord, it's somewhere in your profile I think) it will add you automatically to the discord and assign roles. Let me know if you get it to work. If not I can send you a personal invite

Jonathan Medina

where is the discord server invite?

Eric Heijnen

yes. All files related to CE will get removed

gabriel n

When uninstalling it, does it remove all traces of program?

Eric Heijnen

They are clean from viruses and advertisements, but I can not guarantee they are free of cheat/hack tools like hacktool:cheatengine. (obviously) You may still have to add an excemption to your anti virus

Hershel Stein

This cheat engine was supposed to be clean but both runtimemodifier and cheat engine are blocked by my antivirus. I can't open them

Eric Heijnen

On discord i post a lot of updates including small bugfixed .exe's at times. I'm currently working on arm64 and debugging on mac, but once that's wrapped up i'll start posting beta versions for ce 7.5

Harold

I did not see any updates for a while...

Marvin Alvarado

i cant open link to discord the page just shows blank

Eric Heijnen

The .exe is for windows. It only contains cheat engine and won't offer anything else

Anthony

Sorry for being confused, but is CheatEngine for Windows the .exe file? I just figured it would be packaged in a .zip file as well and i dont want to download anything extra i probably wont need

Pinto Gaming

thanks! the free version was screwing with my default AV even tho its all off the patreon version just downloaded perfectly no AV issues!

Eric Heijnen

next version will have it fixed. Just found the issue

Eric Heijnen

if that .gen is short for .generic it just means that it looks suspicious. After setup it will disable badlion and clean up any registry keys related to cheat engine. This is done with very small files. And AV's tend to flag small exe files quite often as dangerous

Beef Stew

I subbed as a long time user of cheat engine to update and found out that theres a TROJAN.GEN.MBT profile trying to run in the background as soon as setup is complete, whats that about?

Eric Heijnen

it's the same just named differently. If you have an antivirus that hates cheat engine, it may allow runtime modifier

Cyrus

Thanks! Also, what is the runtime modifier for? I know it’s an alternate to cheat engine but if my only use for cheat engine is to modify item count or cash count, would runtime modifier be better?

Eric Heijnen

It should work. You may want to enable the big endian types in settings so you'll get access to the 2 byte and 4 byte big endian types

Cyrus

Does this work with emulator? I have Artmoney but I don’t trust it as much as your program but I know it works great with emulators.

Eric Heijnen

Have you tried the runtimemodifier instead? Anyhow alternatively try https://cheatengine.org/nosetup.php

Aaron

My AV Vendor is Microsoft - is there no longer a nosetup version?

Eric Heijnen

It's clean. There is no Advertising module in this installer. Detections ending with !ml are based on machine learning. That means an AI has deemed it scary without the interaction of a human being. You can report it as safe to your AV vendor and perhaps they'll mark it safe (And a week or 2 later their AI will flag it again)

Adam P.

I joined because I though the patreon version was supposed to be clean. I get Win32/Uwamson.A!ml being injected by the installer. I'm sorry if I am naïve but I can't trust it.

Eric Heijnen

Try the runtimemodifier, it's not called "Cheat Engine" so might help

Duke Boy

"virus detected" it wont let me download no matter what i do

Eric Heijnen

A lot of anti-viruses can not distinguish between clean innosetup files and bad ones. Also some just look at the name of the installer without actually checking what it is. You can try contacting all these AV's and report itcas a false flag, but it's very likely that a week later it gets detected again with a different name due to AI finding the files suspicious

Eric Heijnen

Run the target process under your own user credentials (repack it and sign it yourself) or enter tbe mac recovery console and do `csrutil disable` there

Theo Truong

Kinda concerned that VirusTotal still puts red flags on it

Kim Feyen

Error while opening this process. Have you disabled 'System Integrity Protection'(SIP) yet? How do I fix this?

Eric Heijnen

it's safe. It's just a false positive because it's an installer named "Cheat Engine" A lot of anti viruses don't check the contents of files, only what it's called

Jesse Thompson

So I just downloaded 7.4 and it came with a virus that my computer just picked up. DO NOT DOWNLOAD! AND I JUST PAYED 2.50 FOR A FUCKING VIRUS.

Eric Heijnen

Ok. You're still a patron for the remainder of the month though. During this time you can use the cheatengineP version to install cheat engine. Just allow it on thepatreon page that shows and it'll continue with the install. Have fun!

BOND AMF

haha link go brrrrr

HoshidaKen

I've been using 7.1 for a long time and love the software. Now I wanted to try 7.4 and have no problem paying for it. But what is this shit here on Patreon? No reasonable download link, the P version takes me back to Patreon.... I'm TOTALLY annoyed and canceling the patronage IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!

Eric Heijnen

not 7.4 but 7.3 does work a little

J J

Excuse me, does it support for MACOS M1?

Eric Heijnen

try https://cheatengine.org/nosetup.php

Mario Lopez

hello, i can't figure out how to download this without mcafee livc safe stopping me. i go into my firewall settings but i can't figure out what to do next.

Masklein

Thank you for maintaining CE after all these years. I'm finally in a place to give you my support. CE has helped me learn a bunch about computer memory and even extended my interest in classic games I love.

Abu Yousef

Hi, I'm a bit confused, I'm trying to find the link for Android download but I can't find it

Eric Heijnen

Try the tutorial that comes with CE, it'll explain the basics of using cheat engine

Remo Williams

hi where can I download 7.4? thx =) also when I try to load a game it is telling me to run some program called fearless Evalution. Is there a way to get my money back? this is to complicated .

Thomas Cooper

hello set to download in a tab in broser but no programe as yet !!

kcoca88

thx your hardwork

Eric Heijnen

Not yet, it will be in 7.4.1. Also it hasn't fixed the mac m1 issue where it just doesn't read any memory so got to wait for that as well (though it is handy for android already)

kcoca88

so ，should i redownload the new 7.4 veraion again？ so the arm64 dis/assembling will work on it

kcoca88

so have you uploaded new version for it ！？really expect it really appreciate

Eric Heijnen

Not yet, but i did add arm64 dis/assembling recently which should help

Slide

dark, for years whenever I've needed CE I've struggled trying to find ancient installers from before the ad stuff, however long ago that is now. I have zero problem paying you $2.50 for final peace of mind. tytyty ty for still doing this. I remember your tutorial walking me through exe hooking and etc, and my little eyes were wide with hacking lol. thx, and cheers :)

kcoca88

HI have you solve support for the mac m1 ?

azion thomas

my get item wont open idk what to do ive tryed many things everything else opens *some* but that one refuses to budge any help?

Seyon

Why not go make your own cheat engine and give it away for free?

隔壁老王

支持汉化？

sad

Once you download it onto another drive or USB drive, you can then install it to your system drive or any other drive you choose. You can if you wish to save it on your system drive first download it onto an alternative drive then zip it thus it will no longer be an EXE

sad

Possibly because you are downloading it onto your system drive if you have another drive on your PC download it to this as windows generally does not allow you to download an EXE file onto a system drive Permission warning is a windows' thing not an antivirus statement it is a protection at a simple level to avoid most users downloading dangerous executables onto a system drive with the possibility of it self-actioning

sad

Firstly, Norton is malware. Secondly, to answer your question it's a false positive meaning that Norton recognizes that cheat engine uses hooks which directly have effect on underlying processes which windows deem unwanted unless you pay them large sums of money to whitelist your product. Type "Norton allow exception" in Google, that's the answer. Once you have time and money get rid of Norton, it's Malware just like McAfee

StarAfar

It's going to. Cheat Engine hooks into the memory of other processes to do what it's supposed to do. That looks like malware to most antivirus engines. You'll need to whitelist it.

PSI Rockin'

Better yet, why can't he just go back to having a free no-setup version available to the public again? Even if he DID used to purposely obscure and hide it. Money and greed changes people and their works for the worse...

PSI Rockin'

Thanks, you're the real MVP!

RCS Models

Agreed, not uncommon to have Cheat Engine spew false positives for HackTool or generic malware. Absolutely not normal it spews false positives for ransomware. Especially suspect when you just grab the source code off github, compile it yourself and end up with a result that VirusTotal gives substantially less results for. I got 6 positives from worthwhile softwares and they were all the usual, expected generic malware or "CheatEngine.A" results on VirusTotal with my own compiled version, meanwhile the installer for the official version shits out 19 results, including 2 claims of ransomware. False positives or not, that's quite suspicious.

Martian

I use norton and when i launch it norton say something about trojan

Eric Heijnen

check out https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/1954 it contains a video on how to add ce to the exclusion list. Also try the runtime modifier instead. Or try https://cheatengine.org/nosetup.php

Israel Hernandez-Rodriguez

Trying to download this to my Windows PC but it still gives me "You may not have the appropriate permission". Can anyone help out on this.

Eric Heijnen

It doesn't have third party offerings (offercore). Besides that the only malware is cheat engine itself which lets you modify the memory of every process. If your AV still says offercore tnen it's just a crappy AV that only looks at filenames and who signed it. Try the runtime modifier instead

Sebastian

i got patron membership for a clean installer! without malicious software! this installer have one??! why?!

Eric Heijnen

Report it as a false positive to those AV's. If enough people do it they will flag it as safe (for a week and then flag it again)

Eric Heijnen

Not at the moment. There's only one for linux 64 bit in one of the previous posts, but i guess you're waiting for the android builds? Anyhow, next subversion i'll try to build the android ceserver. I'm currently working on an arm64 assembler/disassembler which will come in handy for that

Corey Khaal

Is there a linux binary for server ceserver on 7.4?

Joel Robinett

The installer is not passing virustotal.com and will get flagged by mcaffee, avast, avg and defender

Donald Lucero

where is the gold? i dont see it when i run it "special marking in gold "

Eric Heijnen

The installer is clean. The virus warning is a false positive

rogueviper817

Agreeing here...I'm ok with paying money to whoever is maintaining this software and after donating I downloaded one of your copies with viruses instead of the legit clean version. Thanks @Samantha Faye for saving me!

Vanessa Faye

And for anybody else searching for the no setup link, here you go: https://cheatengine.org/nosetup.php

Vanessa Faye

Kinda pissed how i had to scroll through comments to find a link to the no setup page, after already searching the website and a bunch of the other posts on here. Why the fuck can't you just have the normal link on the website and just say "You must be a patreon member to download the no setup version"

Robert Wolf

Look as someone who recent became a patron (not in the long run) I got to ask; why can't I just buy cheat engine's older versions without ads on it? I'm willing to throw 2.50 cents at you just to buy it once. I mean hell now that I'm an adult with money and not a kid anymore I can actually afford to help the creators I support!

Eric Heijnen

The patreon version here should be able to install to a custom location

Castor ''Scud'' Marshall

How about you add the Windows ZIP to the post as well? Would save time for people who are looking for the Windows ZIP. Also: why the F can't I choose the install directory not anymore in the installers?

Many thanks, look forward to future versions.

Eric Heijnen

Perhaps the cheat uses a prefered base but there's not enough memory free in that range anymore (2GB range)

Goodgriefchief

Baker L

Oh, it seems to be a hard job. Will it come in version 7.x haha

Eric Heijnen

probably because rosetta doesn't emulate the x86 debugging registers. Perhaps if i create a m1 version

Baker L

In m1 mac, in "find what write to the adress" can not find anything. Why is that? can be solved?

Keron Gibbs

Hey, im getting M1 Mac CE error “error processing is sip disabled” however disabling sip prevents steam games from opening

Eric Heijnen

check the firewall and/or anti virus. And try the runtimemodifier74p.exe instead

Eric Heijnen

Try adding an exception to the file in your anti virus. There is an example video on how to add an exclusion to windows defender at https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/1954 (It's for the public build but should work the same for patreon as well) Alternatively, try using the runtime modifier instead. It doesn't contain the word 'Cheat' so it less likely to trigger your anti virus

Redsan16 -

My PC says it detects a virus and can't open the file :(

Eric Heijnen

Report the detected file(s) as a false positive to your AV. Eventually they'll mark them safe (though likely a week later they'll mark the free one bad again, and then the patreon one again and it goes on like that)

AskaLangly

Isn't it weird how the free version throws no fit, but the Patreon version does, before and after installation? Win32/Uwamson.A!ml

Keron Gibbs

Hey getting an error on m1 mac, saying” error while opening process, have you disabled sip yet?

batman

when I click the CH74p link,edit: its saying the link isnt responding, sayn check my connection, but my internet is running fine, any solutions?

Eric Heijnen

Report it as a false positive to your antivirus. And try "runtime modifier" instead

Darculetzz

My antivirus blocked it.... say it was ransomware.

kcoca88

really appreciate your kindly repky and it's very exciting when you get your new m1 mac and slove it

Eric Heijnen

Not yet, but i have ordered a mac mini with a m1 so i may be able to see why it goes wrong.

kcoca88

is there any idea when could possibility work in new version?

Yukirin

Thanks!

Eric Heijnen

try https://cheatengine.org/nosetup.php

Yukirin

Any portable release for 7.4 windows?

Eric Heijnen

I assume you just download CheatEngine74p.exe , install it, and then load the mod into CE. I guess it's a .ct file?

Eric Heijnen

as you found out 7.3 works, though I still have no idea why, as both use the same compiler. But for debugger issues you'll have to wait till it's compatible with the m1 cpu

frank bartholow

this is gonna sound dumb but never used this just wanted it for a borderlands 3 mod said i needed it, although i have windows what exactly am i supposed to download

kcoca88

HI ，why it cant search anything under Mac m1 ? it very weird ?? any suggestion ? but it also work fine by 7.3 ,still have some issue with find out what write to this address .attached the process already ,but nothing work on it ...hope your kindly advise .

Eric Heijnen

Try the runtime modifier project instead of cheat-engine. Or try adding CE to your exclusion list. or disable 'reputation based protection ' .

U&I production

cant download, saying i don't have permission but I'm the admin

Eric Heijnen

In the download manager of your browser tell it to keep the download (not then bottom bar, the one in the top right menu of the browser)

Duc Tran

cant download window app

Eric Heijnen

There actually is something for old patreon members. If you've passed a certain lifetime amount (several months to a year depending on what you pay) it should still work even when not an active member anymore (as long as you don't delete your patreon account)

J K

" Also, while the public version has software advertisement in the installer it's not forcing you to install it. You can just click on decline or decline all to not install those offers. But some AV think people are dumb as a rock and would just click 'accept' on everything, so they need to be protected against themselves " Haha, I probably actually declined all those offers when I installed the free version. But when my AV pinged on the installer I decided to look out a clean version, in any case I'm glad to have thrown a few dollars your way. You are a legend. I suppose it won't matter as much when my Patreon expires on the 1st of Feb, which is nice to know. Thanks again for the years & years of active development!

J K

It's unfortunate that there's not a database of some sort so former patreon members can still reinstall an older version of the software in the future, without the Patreon version refusing to install. I was hoping to purchase the software and have it available ten years from now, instead I purchased a 3-day install-license for 3$ (Still not bad mind you, and I suppose when I purchase a new device I'll just toss you another 3$) I completely understand why you'd do it this way though, everybody deserves a decent monthly wage for work well done. Perhaps a lifetime license could be an option, at the same time you might run into the problem of the market drying up (since the userbase is finite). You do you I suppose. Anyway, you're amazing, keep up the good work.

IFireflyl

For people having issues with CE installing (and who are on Windows 10), create two folders. The first one you need to create is in whatever folder you normally download to (e.g. the Downloads folder). Name this folder Cheat Engine Installers (or something else that works for you). Create the second folder in "C:\Program Files" (it might prompt you for permissions when you try to do this) and name it "Cheat Engine" or (something else that works for you). Now add both of those folders to your Windows anti-virus exception list by going to Start and then clicking the Settings icon (the gear icon). In the search bar type "Virus" and then click the "Virus and threat protection" option. If "Periodic Scanning" is disabled under the Microsoft Defender Antivirus Options then skip this step. If it is enabled, click Manage Settings in roughly the middle of the page under the "Virus & threat protection settings" header. Click "Add or remove exclusions" under the Exclusions header near the bottom of the page. Add both folders to this exclusion list (e.g. "C:\ProgramFiles\Cheat Engine" and "C:\Users\[YourUsername]\Downloads\Cheat Engine Installers"). Additionally, you need to add both of those folders in any alternative antivirus you have. For example, I also have Malwarebytes, and so I would add those folders to my Malwarebytes exclusion list. Now when you download Cheat Engine always save it to the Cheat Engine Installers folder (or whatever you called it). When you install Cheat Engine always change the installation path to C:\Program Files\Cheat Engine (or whatever you named this folder). Every version of Cheat Engine I install is in that path, so I have the following folders currently: C:\Program Files\Cheat Engine\7.3.0 C:\Program Files\Cheat Engine\7.3.2 C:\Program Files\Cheat Engine\7.4.0 The reason I suggest handling it this way is so you don't have to add a new exclusion every time a new Cheat Engine is released and installed. These two exceptions will persist for new versions of Cheat Engine because both of the folders they are saved/installed to are excluded. The only change you will need to make is if you change those folder names/locations, or if you get a new antivirus (in which case you will need to add those folders to the exclusion list).

Eric Heijnen

I don't control what AV's complain about, but some already go off when they have the word 'cheat' in them, so try the runtime modifier. Also, while the public version has software advertisement in the installer it's not forcing you to install it. You can just click on decline or decline all to not install those offers. But some AV think people are dumb as a rock and would just click 'accept' on everything, so they need to be protected against themselves (CE has had this method of monetization for over a decade, but AV's have recently took it upon themselves to protect them from this as well)

Average Moose

What's up with Cheat Engine lately? I try to install from the website and my AV blocks it completely so I google it to find out that it's being packaged with adware. So I come here and my AV goes off again now saying it contains ransomware. I'm aware that AV can detect a false positive with programs like this but this one just rubs me the wrong way. I love Cheat Engine and I'd love to continue making cheat tables but this shit is putting me off

Francesco S

Thanks for your reply. No luck so far... but I'm trying *everything* :-)

Max

When I press winkey + r and type in the run dialog https://cheatengine.org it does open Chrome with the right web page...

Eric Heijnen

There is no change in the way CE reads memory, and it's still the same compiler. Perhaps it's a compatibility flag you have to set in rosetta, or sign CE yourself. Or macos has a compatibility library and treats 7.3 differently because it's a known app

Eric Heijnen

Sounds like reputation based protection in windows. Try allowing it manually or try what's described at https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/1954

Mathew Coen

So, having an issue. I can't even download 7.4 at all. "Error: Unable to execute file in the temporary directory. Setup aborted. Error 5: Access denied." Even after I've moved the installer, turned off all my protections until restart. Run as admin, nothing.

Francesco S

Another clue: "Memory Viewer" always returns an empty table (full of "????") in CE 74; otherwise CE 73 is working properly (I tested several Processes).

Eric Heijnen

Check for popup blockers or ad blockers. When you click next it executes the url for patreon which the default browser on your system should then handle. The only explenation is that something blocks it. (also it should have gone to cheatengine.org, not google)

THE3TIMECHAMPION

hy same Prob, google pops up but still nothing happens after accepting the terms

Francesco S

Thank you again. I did what you suggested, but it still doesn't work. I checked both versions with the same settings: CE 73 scans without that error, CE 74 no. I noticed that both versions create the same files during scans (ADDRESSES.FIRST, ADDRESSES.TMP, MEMORY.FIRST and MEMORY.TMP) *but* CE 74 creates empty files in my folder (except for ADDRESSES.FIRST and ADDRESSES.TMP, that contain only the word "NORMAL"). P.S. I love CE... your work is WONDERFUL.

Eric Heijnen

That message shows when the scanresults file can not be accesses. Perhaps 7.4 and 7.3 are running with a different account and the scanfolder is not writable or readable for 7.4 ? Go to settings->scan settings and tick "Don't store the tempresults in the windows tempdir" (Still need to rename that) and then fill in your own path where you know 7.4 has read/write access (And restart CE)

Francesco S

Yes, you are right... Syslogd says: "CELOG:Error during TSavedScanHandler.InitializeScanHandler:No first scan data files found"

Eric Heijnen

I don't know why 7.3 works on your M1 . Perhaps it has been granted special rights? Try looking in syslogd , it may show a log when scanning

Francesco S

Hi again... any news for Silicon (M1) Macs? 7.4 still doesn't scan... 7.3 scans correctly, but no pointer scans anymore. :-( Otherwise all is OK for Intel Macs. Thanks.

Eric Heijnen

If you press winkey+r to popup the 'run' dialog and type in https://cheatengine.org and click ok, which browser pops up or does the ce website loads up in a random spot?

Max

Unfortunately, no page or tab is opened.

ragnaroks

"{$CCODE refESP=esp}" will alert "redeclaration of 'refESP' ",details link [ https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/1990 ]

Eric Heijnen

Check your browser. It should have opened a page or tab to patreon where you can log in

Max

I cannot install CE, on the license agreement page nothing happens after accepting the terms and pressing "Next >"... (I did run it as Administrator)

Niels Stenbæk Jørgensen

Thanks a bunch chief! Hope you are good!

Francesco S

Thank you a lot! But... CE 7.4 isn't working for my new Mac, NO MEMORY SCANS at all, 0 results (I'm using MacBook Pro M1 Max). CE 7.3 scanner is OK, but Pointer Scan isn't working for M1 Macs... :-(

Eric Heijnen

Should be fixed now in the patched download

Eric Heijnen

I've reuploaded 7.4. It should work better now. (the new version got copied inside the .app instead of replace the .app) As for the save & open dialog, try resizing it, and then close the dialog. It looks like the size is stored

Jonathan Mota

Happy New Year, Thank you!

xid

On my Mac it says 7.3.2 Debug Build MacOS Version. Also until today the save & open dialog window being too large like 2-3 times my monitor size is still has not been fixed.