Elden Ring Cheat Engine Guide

Getting Started With Cheat Engine for Elden Ring

Cheat Engine is a memory scanner that lets you look at the numbers a game is using while it runs. For Elden Ring, that means things like health, runes, and stamina become editable values you can freeze or change. It works by scanning the game's process memory, finding where those values live, and letting you modify them. The first thing you need is the game running. Start Elden Ring and get to a place where you can afford to die without losing progress. A site of grace near a major area works fine. Then launch Cheat Engine as administrator so it can attach to the game process.

Elden Ring Cheat Engine Guide

Once Cheat Engine is open, you click the computer icon in the top left and select the game process from the list. It might show up as game.exe or something similar depending on your setup. After you attach, you need to find the values you want to change. Here is the practical part. Let's say you want infinite health. You scan for your current health value, then take some damage and scan again for the new number. Repeat until you have one result, then add it to the address list. Freeze that address and you stay at whatever health you had when you froze it. I spent about two hours on my first attempt with this because I kept scanning the wrong value. The game has multiple health-related numbers - one for current health, one for max health, and others for different states. If you freeze the wrong one, you either get weird behavior or it just does not work. The address for current health in my build was around 0x14B2C8D0 in the process space, but that will vary between versions.

For runes, the process is similar but trickier. Runes are used constantly when you kill enemies, so the value changes rapidly. You need to be smart about when you scan. Kill a group of enemies to get a big rune gain, note the new total, then scan for that. The rapid changes mean you might get several results before narrowing it down to the right one. Stamina works well with this because it changes more predictably. You can scan while standing still, then run around to deplete it and scan again. The value usually goes from your max stamina down to whatever you have left after activity. Freezing it keeps your stamina bar full even when you are spamming attacks. One thing beginners miss is that some values are protected or checked by the server. Elden Ring is an online game, so using memory editors can flag your account. I have seen people get banned after just one session of editing health. It is worth considering whether the temporary advantage is worth losing access to the game entirely.

There is also the issue of value types. Not all numbers in a game are simple integers. Some are floats, some are doubles, and some are encoded in ways that make direct scanning useless. When you get zero results after multiple scans, try changing the value type in Cheat Engine. Float is common for health and stamina, while unsigned integer works for runes. Another practical tip is that the game can reset values if it reloads data. If you travel to a new area or the game saves, your frozen values might disappear. You will need to reattach and rescan. This is why it is useful to know the pointers rather than just the current addresses. Pointers stay relatively stable across game sessions. If you want to go further, you can write scripts in Lua to automate the scanning process. Cheat Engine includes a script editor that lets you loop through scans and filter results programmatically. It takes some time to learn the syntax, but it saves hours compared to manual scanning.

The download is straightforward. Go to the Cheat Engine website and grab the latest version. Make sure you get it from the official source since there are mirrors with modified files. The installer is about 50MB and sets up everything you need in one go. For Elden Ring specifically, the memory layout changes with patches. What worked on version 1.00 might not work on 1.08. If your scans come back empty after an update, you probably need to start over with fresh values. The game developers sometimes move data structures around, which breaks existing pointers. I recommend starting with single-player mode if you are new to this. The stakes are lower, you do not risk a ban, and you can experiment without pressure. Once you understand how the values work, you can decide whether to use this in online play. Just be aware that FromSoftware has been aggressive about detecting cheats, and bans are real.

The whole process from start to working health hack usually takes about 20 minutes if you know what you are doing. First-timers should budget an hour or two. The learning curve is mostly about understanding memory scanning concepts, not the tools themselves. If this does not work for your situation, there are other options. Some people use trainers made by the community that handle the scanning automatically. Others modify game files directly, though that tends to trigger anti-cheat more reliably. Each approach has tradeoffs. The core idea is simple: find the number, change the number, freeze the number. The execution requires patience and a willingness to deal with failure. Most values you find will be wrong. You will scan dozens of addresses before finding the right one. That is normal.

For a complete walkthrough with screenshots and video, search for recent tutorials on YouTube or Reddit. The community maintains updated guides for each patch. Follow those when this process gets complicated, because the exact offsets and methods change frequently with game updates.