Getting base address of a process

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Published on 2012-04-07T17:23:36Z Indexed on 2012/04/07 17:31 UTC
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I'm trying to make a program that read the timer value from Minesweeper. (OS is windows 7 64bit)

Using cheat engine I found the base address of the variable, but it changes every time I run Minesweeper.

What do I need to do to find out the base address automatically?

Does it have something to do with the executable base address?

Here's my code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;



int main()
{
    DWORD baseAddress = 0xFF1DAA38;//always changing
    DWORD offset1 = 0x18;
    DWORD offset2 = 0x20;
    DWORD pAddress1;
    DWORD pAddress2;

    float value = 0;
    DWORD pid;
    HWND hwnd;

    hwnd = FindWindow(NULL,"Minesweeper");
    if(!hwnd)//didn't find the window
    {
        cout <<"Window not found!\n";
        cin.get();
    }
    else
    {
        GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd,&pid);
        HANDLE phandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_VM_READ,0,pid);//get permission to read
        if(!phandle)//failed to get permission
        {
            cout <<"Could not get handle!\n";
            cin.get();
        }
        else
        {
            ReadProcessMemory(phandle,(void*)(baseAddress),&pAddress1,sizeof(pAddress1),0);
            ReadProcessMemory(phandle,(void*)(pAddress1 + offset1),&pAddress2,sizeof(pAddress2),0);
            while(1)
            {
                ReadProcessMemory(phandle,(void*)(pAddress2 + offset2),&value,sizeof(value),0);
                cout << value << "\n";
                Sleep(1000);
            }
        }
    }
}

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