Forums Bug Reports mIRC 6.3 process in memory bug

Currently on XP SP2, have mIRC 6.3 with NNS 4.1, and anytime I exit (not minimize to tray) mIRC, it shuts down but mirc.exe stays in memory with around 18mB of resources until I end it.

Anyone know why this would happen? I've tried waiting for it to end, and it does not. I've tried running it on a fresh restart and it still stays in memory. When I shut down my PC with mirc.exe still in memory it always pops up with the waiting for mirc.exe to end dialog.

Did you try to reproduce this with a clean install of mIRC, no scripts loaded and no DLL's loaded ?

Yup, just did it, and had no problems whatsoever. I guess I should hit up the nns forums :<

I encounterd this behavior in 6.3 (XP SP2) whenever I used a certain dll (ac.dll - AMIP client for winamp).
My code was:
on *:START: /dll ac.dll load
in mIRC 6.21, the dll has been unloaded automatically on mIRC exit.
in mIRC 6.3, I had to tell mIRC explicitely to unload the dll:
on *:EXIT: /dll ac.dll unload

- and now it works.

Thanks a lot for this finding.
Two friends of mine had this problem (the one on 2k with UPP script, the other on Vista with a custom one..) - your code finally did the trick, at least for one of them using dll calls; $dde(mPlug,*) is making problems though.
I was told the issue had been forwarded to the amip forums now - lets wait and see. Thanks again

I've noticed something like this when I do /help (Even pressing F1.) or /ison.

mIRC freezes and uses about 18 MB of space in resources. ;X

Problem with ac.dll AMIP component and mIRC 6.3 has been fixed.

Please see AMIP forum for details.

Hi all!

I think now we have the final solution for the problem.

See last version by Serge on AMIP Forum.

BR
who_knows

Comawhite already beat you to it.

Yepp, but what has been stated there at a later date (I cannot confirm it, I'm just quoting) might be the general cause for this memory problem, regarding other scripts as well (besides amip):

I am unable to provide a scripted sollution for a general "on exit > unload all dlls":

- Cycle all dlls in a while loop isn't working; the loop will stop if the error "* /dll: no such routine 'unload'" occurs.
- Firing timers out of a loop - to trigger the unload of all dlls as separate commands - would probably not work on exit: I suppose mirc will exit the very moment the timers had been started.