Title: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 01, 2016, 10:42:19 AM Well A lot of people are having a problem with genoil, so i will make things clear,
I have 6 rigs running, and dont have problem with any of them Im using Flypool, Stable,pay right and have a nice dashboard ;) Lets start from zero. *Make a fresh windows 7/10 instalation (genoil works on both) -If you dont want format your rig i recommend unistalling drivers using DDU and installing latest from amd *Go in system -> advanced system configuration -> perfomance -> advanced, and change your virtual memory initial 10000 max 32768 - Click set after that, or it will not save. - Dont forget to change power settings, or your pc will hibernate *I recommend changing Bios to Stock , and all oc settings to stock, for testing and running (you can try changing them later) *If you have a weak cpu, dont mine with it, or it will afect your gpu mining speed *Download genoil 0.42, extract everything to a folder on your desktop -create a start.bat -First time is better to create a kernel for every Gpu at time so do the following using -g Command (0 is the first GPU) Quote genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -g 0 Launch the start.bat after it begins to mine, close and start another gpu Quote genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -g 1 Do it just changing the -g value From 0 to 5 ( or the number of gpus you have) Nice! Now lets start a test with everything together Quote genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z If you have a cpu with integrated video, just use this (if you are geting no opencl devices error) Quote genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -P 1 Now , if everything runs fine change the bat file again, with this script, it ill close miner every hour (cause genoil sometime fails) and open again Quote setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0 setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100 setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1 setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 :start taskkill /F /IM genoil.exe start /MIN genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z TIMEOUT /T 3600 goto start pause So runs the start.bat it ill start genoil minimized Profit DONT FORGET TO CHANGE THE ZCASH ADRESS, OR U ILL MINE TO ME ;) Nice mining! Start Bats (If you dont know how to make it) just put inside genoil folder https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtxN_-tDJ53OoFXgnsYHGpgl8hFJ Genoil Github Link https://github.com/Genoil/ZECMiner/tree/master/releases DDU Link https://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiJgLHtqofQAhWJfpAKHT26CRQQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guru3d.com%2Ffiles-details%2Fdisplay-driver-uninstaller-download.html&usg=AFQjCNEJ9nAYe5bakSWLix-qMCQn0Fvqbw&sig2=flZHJTmBiHYtpabimKIYfw&bvm=bv.137132246,d.Y2I Flypool Link http://zcash.flypool.org/ Donations zcash t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: Kyubey on November 01, 2016, 10:46:49 AM Quote *If you have a weak cpu, dont mine with it, or it will afect your gpu mining speed Which CPU can be considered as weak? Is Athlon X2 @3.4 GHz enough or there should be some kind of old i7-920 for mining?Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 01, 2016, 10:55:25 AM Quote *If you have a weak cpu, dont mine with it, or it will afect your gpu mining speed Which CPU can be considered as weak? Is Athlon X2 @3.4 GHz enough or there should be some kind of old i7-920 for mining?Start Genoil first, and see your Sol rate, them start the cpu miner, if your gpu sol rate begins to drop, you have a weak cpu ;) Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: doktor83 on November 01, 2016, 11:28:47 AM no need to go with -g 0 then -g 1 etc if you have same cards, because it will create .bin on first run then on every other run it will just overwrite it.
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: Bitbit017 on November 01, 2016, 12:04:19 PM Thank you for your guide!!!!
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: eiliant on November 01, 2016, 12:15:19 PM does this work with a nvidia 1080?
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 01, 2016, 12:16:58 PM does this work with a nvidia 1080? Nvidia it is not supported by genoil yet Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: mewhoyou on November 01, 2016, 01:09:50 PM tried running your add on script but it wasn't working on my end.
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: fr4nkthetank on November 01, 2016, 01:38:37 PM hey nice thead, very well explained. for those with nvidia you get can the nicehash miner
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 01, 2016, 02:17:59 PM tried running your add on script but it wasn't working on my end. i ill upload some start bats, you can try them all, Virus free ;P Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: liomojo1 on November 01, 2016, 03:28:58 PM You rock man , now the miner works for 20 min and no 0sol/s , i can`t beleive it! Thank you a lot!
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: toptek on November 01, 2016, 03:31:55 PM great guide i all ready did most of it . for sure don't over clock it's not need and test it with a modded bios mine have been running for 8 hours now with no errors or stopping at zero with modded bios, i found that using third party software with this software miner was a big issue , it's not needed any way this miner run things so cool the fan can run at all most any speed and not come close to over heating .. and hes right trying to use the CPU at the same time with shit CPU's will drag down the GPU it does mine. I have shit cpu not gonna replace them til next year now waiting for the new ZEN line due out next year form AMD they should rock with this coin , if it's still as good .
This about all i use in a bat genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u zec address.RIGNAME -p z everything needed is on by default some setting will actually make the GPU run worse or reset to defaults . they are mostly there for future use. and have fun testing or playing with it kind of says that in the read me Genoil 0.5 now comes with. Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: forzendiablo on November 01, 2016, 04:14:41 PM but the miner makes one kernel.
why to run for each card when it justm akes 1 kernel file? Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 01, 2016, 04:19:47 PM but the miner makes one kernel. why to run for each card when it justm akes 1 kernel file? Because all of your gpus are the same model If you have : a 390 and a 290 for ex, you need 2 kernels (this guide is noob proof) Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: toptek on November 01, 2016, 05:56:26 PM but the miner makes one kernel. why to run for each card when it justm akes 1 kernel file? not really it is on by default just does it a different way with default that i saw in fact using two kernels on in the command line tun it off for default and might slow it down, or did for me and I'm guessing that's why until it is improved more. I'm not saying don't sue it by all means do but it might slow you down or speed you up but it is all ready on by default but works different at default all my miner speeds doubled when -.42 support came out for older AMD cards and my 470's speed for sure doubled when support was fixed in 0.41 all are at default settings and I tried to turn on two kernels at once the command line way . those cards atm are one card rigs all but the 470's and it slowed down my three 470 using it manually, i guess i can turn the apu core on in one of the one card rigs to see what it does . and default setting make a kernel bin for each card look in the folder there should be two different ones in that folder and loads one for each card by default even if he doesn't make 2 but should if the card is different from what i saw it made two kernel for each card unless it was the same series card like my three 470s . but this guide is great I'm gonna try some setting from it like setting the v memory in windows i did not think of that one and i already use or was using a more tweaked bat restart script same script but tweaked more, i found on the Zcash forums the other day , if you want it , il gladly post it , it was posted for the public some place else by some one else unless your that person. from what i tested using the kernels manually did slow down all my AMD cards same cards or not in the same system. Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: bobben2 on November 01, 2016, 06:44:02 PM I was following the guide and started the miner. One single 280X.
It was mining fine at 28 S/s for about two hours, then it started to submit invalid shares. I rebooted the rig, and started the miner again and now it doesnt hash - 0 Sol/s. What gives? Reverted back to Eth for now... Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: toptek on November 01, 2016, 06:46:39 PM I was following the guide and started the miner. One single 280X. It was mining fine for at 28 S/s for about two hours, then it started to submit invalid shares. I rebooted the rig, and started the miner again and now it doesnt hash - 0 Sol/s. What gives? may need to turn off the PC to break the network connection and actually clear out the memory i had to turn off two R7 370 PC even after a warm boot it wouldn't hash so i did a cold boot or power off .and that might be why sometimes even a restart scpit won't work because it has to wipe all traces of that session from the web and PC only a cold boot or power off can do or unplug the network cable then reboot it , to me it seems easier to power it off then unplug a nic cable then reboot . or it could be that pool messing up. i had that happen i tired another pool it worked . but if you try to start the miner with the command line after a reboot with out using the a bat file and it says you can't do that and some some thing about that can only be done in a bat file or some thing, a shut down should fix it and may even be needed to clear the error out of memory and it should hash again . just some stuff I discovered. thanks top , Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: bobben2 on November 01, 2016, 06:59:46 PM I was following the guide and started the miner. One single 280X. It was mining fine for at 28 S/s for about two hours, then it started to submit invalid shares. I rebooted the rig, and started the miner again and now it doesnt hash - 0 Sol/s. What gives? may need to turn off the PC to break the network connection and actually clear out the memory i had to turn off two R7 370 PC even after a warm boot it wouldn't hash so i did a cold boot or power off .and that might be why sometimes even a restart scpit won't work because it has to wipe all traces of that session from the web and PC only a cold boot or power off can do or unplug the network cable then reboot it , to me it seems easier to power it off then unplug a nic cable then reboot . Fixed. I switched pool. From flypool to nanopool. Seems flypool went down. Which is an easy thing to do with the Genoil miner on windows. not so with zogminer under Linux. Switching pools and using zogminer requires a reboot... I wish for pool failover switch... Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: reelen on November 01, 2016, 07:13:40 PM Completed all of this, but still having the issue where the hash-rate zeros out and have to restart the computer to restore it.
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: liomojo1 on November 01, 2016, 07:19:04 PM Yes , when miner works for an hour and restarts it starts to give 0sol/s on some gpus, to restart it properly to work again well i have to delete the bin file in tha cash of the miner and start it again!
It need tweaking obviosly! Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: toptek on November 01, 2016, 07:24:12 PM it just happen invoided solutions (20) then zero hashes on one of my miner i was lucky switching pools then back did it , i didn't have go th the whole reboot restart thing next time i may have to . I should run a restart bat on my miners i don't so no complaints.
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 01, 2016, 07:52:12 PM One of my rigs just crash (i have to hard reset to work again), and it aways mined Eth+Sia with no problem, but so far i have 6 rigs, only one with this problem
In my opnion Silent army kernel still bad optimized ( cant complain it is the best we have). I never had to reboot my rigs to restore 0 sol/s , restarting genoil aways solved . Try removing this from your bat file, and see if works setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0 setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100 setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1 setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: philipma1957 on November 01, 2016, 08:43:13 PM Well A lot of people are having a problem with genoil, so i will make things clear, the bold type spot confused me . I have 6 rigs running, and dont have problem with any of them Im using Flypool, Stable,pay right and have a nice dashboard ;) Lets start from zero. *Make a fresh windows 7/10 instalation (genoil works on both) -If you dont want format your rig i recommend unistalling drivers using DDU and installing latest from amd *Go in system -> advanced system configuration -> perfomance -> advanced, and change your virtual memory initial 10000 max 32768 - Click set after that, or it will not save. - Dont forget to change power settings, or your pc will hibernate *I recommend changing Bios to Stock , and all oc settings to stock, for testing and running (you can try changing them later) *If you have a weak cpu, dont mine with it, or it will afect your gpu mining speed *Download genoil 0.42, extract everything to a folder on your desktop -create a start.bat -First time is better to create a kernel for every Gpu at time so do the following using -g Command (0 is the first GPU) Quote genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -g 0 Launch the start.bat after it begins to mine, close and start another gpu Quote genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -g 1 Do it just changing the -g value From 0 to 5 ( or the number of gpus you have) Nice! Now lets start a test with everything together Quote genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z If you have a cpu with integrated video, just use this (if you are geting no opencl devices error) Quote genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z -P 1 Now , if everything runs fine change the bat file again, with this script, it ill close miner every hour (cause genoil sometime fails) and open again Quote setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0 setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100 setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1 setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 :start taskkill /F /IM genoil.exe start /MIN genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h.RIGNAME -k zec -p z TIMEOUT /T 3600 goto start pause So runs the start.bat it ill start genoil minimized,do not close the start.bat windows DONT FORGET TO CHANGE THE ZCASH ADRESS, OR U ILL MINE TO ME ;) Nice mining! Start Bats (If you dont know how to make it) just put inside genoil folder https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtxN_-tDJ53OoFXgnsYHGpgl8hFJ Genoil Github Link https://github.com/Genoil/ZECMiner/tree/master/releases DDU Link https://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiJgLHtqofQAhWJfpAKHT26CRQQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guru3d.com%2Ffiles-details%2Fdisplay-driver-uninstaller-download.html&usg=AFQjCNEJ9nAYe5bakSWLix-qMCQn0Fvqbw&sig2=flZHJTmBiHYtpabimKIYfw&bvm=bv.137132246,d.Y2I Flypool Link http://zcash.flypool.org/ Donations zcash t1PbU7yPYcrJkZFSxJU4soeyvYJf9VwUj1h I have two windows one with the mining info is hidden the bat with the timer set for 2 hour not one(used 7200 not 3600), but it does work I will post back later. this looks like a saver as I had a lot of issues today. I am also doing this with 0.4.1 genial not 0.4.2 Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 01, 2016, 09:02:41 PM Sorry for confusion i ill edit it , version 0.42 support older gpus, so i used it for better compatibility
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: Taxidermista on November 02, 2016, 08:54:00 AM The loop trick doesn't work too well, the thing crashes 2 min after the restart so one hour idle afterwards. A waste of time. :(
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: arielbit on November 02, 2016, 09:38:50 AM The loop trick doesn't work too well, the thing crashes 2 min after the restart so one hour idle afterwards. A waste of time. :( you can adjust the time, there are other problems in your rig, 2 mins is too short. Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: Trimegistus on November 02, 2016, 10:22:43 AM Yes , when miner works for an hour and restarts it starts to give 0sol/s on some gpus, to restart it properly to work again well i have to delete the bin file in tha cash of the miner and start it again! It need tweaking obviosly! Deleting the bin files is a good idea. I had issues with that too! Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 02, 2016, 10:54:21 AM I changed to www2.coinmine.pl , flypool was giving too much errors, i ill test and report
Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: Trimegistus on November 02, 2016, 10:58:44 AM I changed to www2.coinmine.pl , flypool was giving too much errors, i ill test and report What about suprnova? It appears to be stable Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: joaocha on November 02, 2016, 11:31:00 AM I changed to www2.coinmine.pl , flypool was giving too much errors, i ill test and report What about suprnova? It appears to be stable I had some problems with too much disconect and buggy dashboard on suprnova, but you can try coinmine seens fast responsive, no laggy site Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: fr4nkthetank on November 03, 2016, 02:37:13 AM coinmine works great to be honest, flypool is horrible. cant say for suprnova I havent tried. OP about the restart, you could do something like
:loop start genoil... timeout ... taskkill... timeout (like 3 seconds) gotoloop... Dont know if its better logic, but it seems easier to read Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: semajjames on November 04, 2016, 05:55:09 PM miningpoolhub works ok ,,
is there any way to change fan speeds and gpu clocks with this miner ? Title: Re: Guide to Genoil Mining Zcash Post by: toptek on November 04, 2016, 06:45:17 PM miningpoolhub works ok ,, is there any way to change fan speeds and gpu clocks with this miner ? if it going to get anymore updates that's coming right now you have to use afterburner or speed fan for widows . http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php |