Forums Feature Suggestions 64-bit mIRC

Just thought I would put in a request for a 64-bit version if this has not already been shot down.

I dont remember it being 'shut down', but think the responses last time this was suggested was that for the time being there is no significant need or advantage of a 64bit version of mirc.

The need will become more apparent in the next couple of years as people who buy 64 bit machines will most likely want a 64 bit version of Windows on it. I know I will be when I upgrade to Vista in the next month or two so I will most likely have to get my older laptop out to run mIRC on.

The advantage? Well that is a different issue and perhaps there is none at this time. One thing is for sure - mIRC has a huge market share and that is unlikely to be dented in the short time by the lack of a 64 bit version. It would be nice to know what Khaled has planned in this department.

Forgive me if i am mistaken, but i thought the 64bit versions of both Vista and XP had the capability of running 32bit programs?

Tom, ultimately here's the breakdown as I remember it.....Of the people who want to see it, not everybody sees the need for it so soon.

Om3n, one would think so but some old rumours (which I have never verified personally) dictate that mIRC still has some snippets of old code from the 16 bit days and as far as I know, neither XP or Vista will recognise it. I take this to mean that mIRC will happily install and run, until of course a function relying old older code is called. Here are some previous discussions on this subject.

https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php?ub...amp;Search=true
https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php?ub...amp;Search=true
https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php?ub...amp;Search=true

Ah yes, i remember hearing that from time to time also. If that is the case i think the first step would be to replace such code.

At least if mIRC is a fully 32bit codebase, then it can be run through WoW64 for now.

I run 32-bit mIRC on 32-bit XP, but: my install is completely devoid of WoW16, NTVDM, and all their libraries and haven't had any problems, at least I have not run into something that uses a 16-bit api causing it not to function. Otherwise I don't recall wowexec/ntvdm running once during use (i always keep mirc open).