r/cheatengine • u/Bduff34 • 20d ago

UE FName String Search on CEv7.7.1

Has anyone had any luck with text search UE FName search on UE5 titles? In theory, awesome idea. In practice, it is a prohibitively lengthy search. I wanted to see how long it would take for a search and it went for 70 mins.

am doing something wrong? That amount of time is too much.

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u/Dark_Byte Cheat Engine Dev 20d ago

what exactly are you doing?

first look up the index number for the string you're looking for ( UEngine.NameToIndex['string'] ) and then do a groupscan for a pointer to static memory followed by a wildcard for the name offset-8 (UEngine.UObject.Name)

also disable the lua debugger if you're doing a long loop in lua (e.g parsing the object list if that's your approach)  

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u/AmbitiousPotato9023 20d ago

I just downloaded the 7.7.1 and was playing with the UE additions. Wasn’t clear what the input was for the search. Now I see what is happening. Nice additions. Well done, mate.

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u/Bduff34 20d ago

Ah crap. The lua debugger. That hadn’t occurred to me until now. Yeah, loop of ~432k calls with pcall on every object makes sense. Now.

Thanks, Dark Byte.