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I look forward to trying this out. It might be a good test-case; this codebase is so convoluted it has actually triggered internal crashes in some analysis tools I've tried on it. For example starting the application under Dr. Memory (https://drmemory.org/) results in a hung process. Source: 10 months ago
Profiling the game and looking at what time is spent on during the freezes is a start. Checkout https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/event-tracing-for-windows--etw- / https://drmemory.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
Yes, you can use Dr. Memory, works out of the box on windows with mingw and visualcpp. Source: about 1 year ago
Other, heavier, tools exist to the same affect that work cross platform - Dr. Memory being my preference. Source: over 1 year ago
I like to use Dr. Memory - excellent Valgrind alternative for Windows users. Source: almost 2 years ago
strace - Trace system calls and signals. A diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility.
Valgrind - Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools.
ftrace - A function tracer for the Linux kernel.
WinAPIOverride - WinAPIOverride : This software allows you to monitor and/or modify any function of a process for any calling convention (stdcall or cdecl)
Deleaker - Deleaker finds memory leaks, GDI leaks, leaks of handles, USER objects and others. Available both as a Visual C++ extension and standalone application.
DTrace - DTrace is a performance analysis and troubleshooting tool for Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.