Cheat Engine

[trm]

is there a way to break and trace all threads simultaneously ?
with CE, or another program ?

i want to break all threads at once, or at least 6-8 threads one after the other,
before any instructions can be executed in the other threads,
and then have CE log the instructions executed, like it normally does when using "Break and trace..."


or, if that's not possible, is there a way to freeze a process,
and then step through the instructions of only one thread, while keeping the other threads frozen ?

p.s.: a big thank you to Dark Byte for creating CE - look forward to v5.6

[Psy]

For what reason would want to do this, if you don't mind me asking?

[Dark Byte]

why breaking all threads is useless:
thread 1 is inside directx
thread 2 is inside kernel32.dll executing a function there
thread 3 is waiting for a event to be finished
thread 4 is in the music play code
thread 5 is waiting for commands

as you see, not a single thread is doing anything of interest


as for freezing all threads while debugging, that's the way windows does it normally. When a thread breaks, it suspends all other threads until the thread is continued again. Of course, depending on the thread scheduler in windows, the other threads might have executed millions of instructions between one single step of the thread you are debugging. There's not much to do about that

[trm]