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Welcome to the Noob Tutorial Series, today is HIROCOIN turn.

1.- Wallet set up.

Go to HIROCOIN official website http://cryptocoderz.com/hirocoin.html (http://cryptocoderz.com/hirocoin.html) (always try to download wallets from official websites, it´s more safe)

https://i.imgur.com/EHZLrWj.jpg

Now go to your download folder rigth click de downloaded file and select "run as administrator", click "yes" on the prompt windows, the install and finish, now the HIROCOIN wallet is installed on your PC, you need to run it to get synced with the network to be able to use it, so double click de HIROCOIN  icon on your desktop and "Allow access" on windows firewall.

https://i.imgur.com/tUTF8Bn.jpg

Wallet will begin to sync with network, this can take several hours just be patient, in case wallet can´t find any connections just close it and open it again. (sometimes this happen because windows firewall delay to allow access).
Once wallet is synced you will be able to send and receive HIROCOINS.

2.- How to mine

NOTE: I only have an AMD graphic card HD6870 ( i know i need to buy something new  ;D ), so this tutorial is based on AMD, for NVIDIA users it should be the same just with other software, but i´m not 100% sure.

First you need to download the miner

AMD------> http://cryptomining-blog.com/2496-new-sgminer-fork-for-x11-mining-with-higher-performance/ (http://cryptomining-blog.com/2496-new-sgminer-fork-for-x11-mining-with-higher-performance/)

NVIDIA---> http://cryptomining-blog.com/6362-updated-ccminer-1-7-1-dev-fork-by-tpruvot-from-git-for-windows/ (http://cryptomining-blog.com/6362-updated-ccminer-1-7-1-dev-fork-by-tpruvot-from-git-for-windows/)

Unzip the downloaded file and leave it there, because now you need to choose a mining pool, at the moment i´m writing these, there are two

I.- Sawa p2pool http://crypto.office-on-the.net:9408/static/ (http://crypto.office-on-the.net:9408/static/)

II.- Aika pool https://aikapool.com/hiro (https://aikapool.com/hiro)

I´ll explain Sawa pool, just because is more simple to start, Aika pool need you to register and create a worker, anyway you should try both and see which one suit you better.

So let´s come back to the unziped file go to the folder where "sgminer.exe" resides (/sph-sgminer_x11mod) and create a new text file name it "sgminer.conf" (delete the original first), open it with Notepad and paste the following. Don´t forget to put your wallet address.


Save it and run "sgminer.exe", now you should be mining, you can check your stats in the pool page, if you get an "missing OpenCL.dll" error when you run "sgminer.exe" you need to download the proper or latest driver for your video card.
There are more configurations and tweaks to get more hashrate from your card but these are more advance and more hardware specific, and these is a noob tutorial, just to get you started.
NVIDIA user sorry but i don´t have any NVIDIA card so i´m not sure the exact way to mine with these, but now you should have a general idea of the process.
comments, questions, i´ll be glad to answer

Great tutorial.I think the SP CCminer fork is faster than the tpruvot.(i had about 400kh/s difference in quark mining with a gtx 750 ti)

I don´t have NVIDIA card so i can´t make any test  :( , any way i´ll post SP CCminer following your advise.

http://cryptomining-blog.com/6365-updated-windows-binary-of-the-ccminer-1-5-78-git-fork-by-sp-for-maxwell/ (http://cryptomining-blog.com/6365-updated-windows-binary-of-the-ccminer-1-5-78-git-fork-by-sp-for-maxwell/)

is this version correct? remember HIRO is X11mod algo

First time miner here... I was looking for a noob altcoin guide and saw your guide and it seems quite straightforward so I'm going to try it.

Just syncing the wallet so I'll be back later with an update/questions - only 102 weeks behind lol

Ok the wallet finally synced and I launched sgminer

This screen pops up

https://i.imgur.com/BmVxV00.png

And then after 30 seconds or so sgminer crashes

I've got an ATI Radeon HD 5450 (I know it's a shit card lol)

did you check your drivers? i got a hd 5570OC and this setup worked just fine

Didn't think of that, I haven't updated them for a long time.

I'll do that now

Thanks

Ok that worked. Windows Update and restarted my PC.

https://i.imgur.com/p0pd8ap.png

It looks like it is working - finding new blocks but I've no hashrate.

When I press G to bring up the GPU management screen

https://i.imgur.com/jOPtnRX.png

????

in the conf file change the "gpu-threads" : "2"  to 1


Windows update? you must download official drivers from official AMD website

Windows 7 32 bits ------> http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows%207%20-%2032 (http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows%207%20-%2032)

Windows 7 64 bits-------> http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows%207%20-%2064 (http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows%207%20-%2064)

That should do the trick

Ok, I did both set GPU-thread to 1 and update my drivers

Now the sgminer window opens for less than a second and then closes.

I may have to give up on this  >:(