I'm using the chinese trainer that was posted on the page previous, it works fine except that when I get to the bear, I kill it then the demo freezes and I have to start over from scratch. I tried skipping the bear and going to the village and the game freezes when you get to the crowd around the elf chick who got stabbed.
Each time the game bugs out and you have to start over. I guess that the timer restarts too though.
I figured out that if you hit the "Home" key it turns off the Chinese trainer mentioned before. Do this before you get to the 2 points I mentioned above and it will not freeze.
Rather curious what problems you came across with it, as I only had a few hickups with timer frozen myself.
Also, tried finding the pointers, but for some reason the find what writes to this adress will not find anything no matter what I do, rather odd.
Oh... Did you return to your program when you had the debugger running?
You need to allow the timer to run down by exiting the menu otherwise nothing can be observed affecting the timer value.