The most common reason for these false identifications is that Cheat Engine makes use of some techniques also used in Trojan rootkits to gain access to parts of the system and therefore gets flagged as suspicious, especially if heuristic scanning is enabled in the antivirus program's settings. There are versions that avoid this false identification at the cost of many features (those which rely upon code injection). This is commonly used to create aimbots.Ĭheat Engine can inject code into other processes, and as such, antivirus programs may mistake it for a virus. With additional configuration, Cheat Engine can move the mouse cursor to get a certain texture into the center of the screen. Memory addresses from search results can be stored in list like bookmarks, from where they can be locked to a fixed value, which can optionally be open to increase or decrease.ĬheatEngine also has some Direct3D manipulation tools, allowing vision through walls ('Wallhacking') and zooming in and out. Cheat Engine can view the disassembled memory of a process and allow the addition and/or alteration of game states to give the user advantages such as infinite health, time, or ammunition.
