Release version of The Gold Mod. All functions are there, but some bugfixes need to be made as well as the blueprint / more gameplay integrated sections of the mod.

DLL is for the IMGUI hook into the settings to create a seamless and easy user modification experience.

Explanation of DLL

CreateToolhelp32Snapshot, SuspendThread, SetThreadContext

Source: MinHook (src/hook.c; the Freeze/Unfreeze functions).

When MinHook installs or removes a vtable hook, it must patch memory safely. The standard technique:

1. CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPTHREAD) ; enumerate every thread in the process
2. SuspendThread each thread that isn't the current one
3. SetThreadContext on each suspended thread; if a thread's instruction pointer is sitting inside the bytes being patched, it gets nudged to a safe location
4. Patch the memory
5. ResumeThread everything

This is textbook safe-hooking and is documented in MinHook's own source. Every hooking library (Detours, PolyHook, MinHook) does some version of this. It only runs at hook install/uninstall time, not per-frame.

ShellExecuteW

Source: UE4SS.lib (the static library we link against), not the code. dllmain.cpp has zero calls to it. You can verify: search the source for ShellExecute; it isn't there. The static lib pulls it in transitively, likely for UE4SS's own logging/crash-handler path that opens a file browser or URL on fatal errors.

Summary