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Hi,

I have released a version of sgminer which allows to mine X11 and X13 coins using 14.6 amd drivers.

As it has been noticed some times ago, with 14.6 drivers almost double the hashrate of groestl algorithm and substantially increases the hashrate of any algo using groestl such as X11, X13, Nist5 (talkcoin).

However with 14.6 drivers some algos (in particular X11 and X13) stopped working completely.
This release fix the problem. This release is based on lasybear sgminer release.

You can find the source at:  https://github.com/djm34/sph-sgminer_x11mod
windows binaries at: https://mega.co.nz/#!sQkQ0JaY!CBz8JkqO8c0IB5ibdUDyeMNrp4hF4MqoU5a6FdJccXw
                  
This version supports these kernels (and some others... but need to be checked though)

* X11mod  (-k x11mod)
* X13mod   (-k x13mod)
* Nist5      (-k nist5)   (talkcoin)
* Quark coins (-k quarkcoin)
* Animecoin (-k animecoin )

I didn't modify the original marucoin and darkcoin kernel are they are slower and some improvement on the quark/anime kernel should be expected soon)

In terms of speed, it was tested so far only on my R9 290x:
With X11mod, I get 5.4MHash/s
With X13mod, I get 3.75MHash/s  (which is not terrible compared to nvidia cards)
With Nist5, I get 15.8MHash/s (more details can be found on talkcoin thread)

If you find this work useful please donate at these addresses:  

BTC: 1NENYmxwZGHsKFmyjTc5WferTn5VTFb7Ze
TAC: TuqNvPoQxghHfzwnPpAxSTiYoN6FM8LM5p
DRK: XpeLYbqdqdC6FM51EPT1XsfXRG8TLqXEbe

I cannot get the windows version to work properly.

Here's what I'm getting:

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

Suggestions?

Appears to work with linux... Not sure what's up with your windows binary...

-EP

did you try to compile the windows binaries yourself ? (could be something wrong with those I provided, I am checking this)

No.  I used the one you provided.

-EP

I ran it for a few minutes on x13modold and x11mod on my handicapped rig: 5970 and a 5870.  Performed about the same as some sgminer from March 2014.  This was in windows 8.1 64 bit.  I don't have the 14.6 drivers.  Just using whatever win 8.1 loaded up by default... so who knows, might be 14.6... nope, device mgr says "13.251" whatever that means.

I know, probably not optimized for my 58/59xx series oldster cards.  Hopefully they will be sold on ebay soon :-) and I'll have my replacement 280x's in hand.  Maybe some 750 ti in the near future too.  

Good luck with your new miner.  Sounds promising.  I may have to give it a whirl on my other 280x's if profitability ever makes sense again.

Edit:  OP, could you clarify what your numbers mean?  Is that a boost in performance by any measurable percentage?  Not too familiar with 290's here.

Edit:  Nevermind, I see now.. this is just to fix critical errors, not improve hashes.  All good, excuse my ignorance.

I'm getting the same on Windows.

I am getting +400khash/s on my 7790 and 7850 using x11, however I am losing around 600khash/s on my r9 270. It appears that thread concurrency and gpu thread settings aren't applying, for TC it does generate a new bin but it looks like it doesn't matter what I set the value to.

I'm also getting around +400 Kh/s on my 7790 and but I'm getting an extra +600 on my 270.  I didn't make any changes to my config.
Here's my config for my 270

"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1,W:192.168.0.0/24",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "28",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin",
"failover-only" : true,
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "7",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-engine" : "1111-1111",
"gpu-fan" : "70-70",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"intensity" : "18",
"kernel" : "x11mod",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"worksize" : "128",
"shaders" : "1280",
"thread-concurrency" : "5121",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"failover-switch-delay" : "60",
"tcp-keepalive" : "30"

With this I'm getting 2.72 MH/s now and was only getting 2.1 MH/s

Thank you man very much! Its great work!
But who can tell me how i can install these to bamt  ??? Im noob ((
Thx!
i uninstall old driver and install AMD 14.6 driver and after install these miner https://github.com/benmagro/Add-SGminer-X11X13Mod-Miner-To-BAMT/tree/master
replace al files in opt/miners/x11x13mod-sgminer with these files https://github.com/djm34/sph-sgminer_x11mod
But i have no high hashrate on my Gigabyte 7950
Have only 2,3 MH as early
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1,W:192.168.0.0/24",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "28",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin",
"failover-only" : true,
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "7",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-engine" : "1040",
"gpu-fan" : "70-70",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250",
"intensity" : "18",
"kernel" : "x11mod",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"worksize" : "128",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"failover-switch-delay" : "60",
"tcp-keepalive" : "30"

R9 290 With X11mod, I get 5.2MHash/s

Thanks a lot this is great and working fine !
 ;)

Can you share parameters ?
Thanks

I have no good parameters I tested with these old
,
"intensity" : "18,",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "x11mod",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "950-950",
"gpu-fan" : "0-0",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "0",
"temp-overheat" : "0",
"temp-target" : "0",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "28",
"failover-switch-delay" : "0",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "7",
"tcp-keepalive" : "0",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

guys! how i can install these patch?  ???
mb anybody lay new bamt build with AMD14.6+new miner?

Yeah, using those settings changed nothing, I'm sure there's something wrong with my setup because TC definitely isn't really doing anything. Unfortunately I don't really have enough time to wipe it out atm, will report back if I get it all the work though.

got a 25% increase from the sgminer version I was running, great work

Still waiting on functional windows binaries...

-EP

guys! pls help me!  >:(

Looking forward to the Windows Binaries.   :)

you can try to use this one https://mega.co.nz/#!8gZ3BbBa!tJLKAr08Lirinh39h55naOY20gLbyPcQpBgWWcB3UDA or compile yourself (which is always the best solution...)
It was compiled by kozmos (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658975.0) and works without that problem.
So most likely there is something wrong with my mingw install (I will make a new one)...

How i can install new miner for bamt?
Where i can find instruction such as https://github.com/benmagro/Add-SGminer-X11X13Mod-Miner-To-BAMT/tree/master

Working great for me thx to geren27 and djm34 :P

https://i.imgur.com/BJm3lyG.png

I upgraded the AMD Catalyst 12.8 to 14.6 beta on my Debian Squeeze 32 bit mining rig. I then compiled djm34's modified sgminer, here are the results.

On 12.8 (sgminer by lasybear):


On 14.6 beta (sgminer by djm34):


More than 1 MH/s hashrate increase per HD 7950 @ 975/1475 for X11.

Remember to delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf and regenerate it with "aticonfig --initial --adapter=all" and remove the existing .bin files that the other sgminer version generated (segfaults).

I have update the OP with new windows binaries made from a fresh mingw install and everything seems to work fine on my computer (no more work update problem).
Apparently I had several version of libcurl on my previous mingw install

You forgot to include zlib1.dll in the folder.


Finally got it working with I:16 on my Stilt Bios'd 290x... Can't seem to get it above that intensity level without crashing the driver.

Also, for some reason, I can't set my GPU core freq to 925...

Ideas/Thoughts?

-EP

are you using MSI AB ? There is some issue.
What you can try is to restart the computer, then right after having restarted the computer go into msi ab and at that moment, you should be able to decrease the frequency (I think the problem started with the first 14 release and pre-release.)

WHO CAN HELP ME?!

???

can't help you on that, I don't use bamt

how old cards works like 5850 ?
i would need to reinstal driver to 14.6 but i hate do that...

Great work guys. Looking good on Windows 8.1 with R9 290s on both x11 and x13.

Not sure if you've got it upgraded on BAMT, but I found this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/BAMT/comments/28xu3i/add_amd_146_drivers_and_djm34s_optimized_sgminer/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/BAMT/comments/28xu3i/add_amd_146_drivers_and_djm34s_optimized_sgminer/)

Props to the OP.

dead link

I need to make a new one, as there were some issue with virustotal

I have updated the OP with a new link, which is somewhat cleaner (...)
https://mega.co.nz/#!sQkQ0JaY!CBz8JkqO8c0IB5ibdUDyeMNrp4hF4MqoU5a6FdJccXw

Thank you for your work, NIST5 is working very good  ;D

I think you are going to have trouble using BAMT.  I was using BAMT 1.6 with lasybear's sgminer but never got the hashing rate that everyone else is getting.  I'm switching to Xubuntu and hopefully going to try to install the 14.6 with this sgminer fork. 

hi have try this sgminer but this one dont show my gpu temp and fan speed for my ati 5870

the windows binary contains adl support (if not let me know I will correct that).
Otherwise by compiling yourself from github, you have to have 3 files from AMD SDK to enable adl support

Hd6970 6950 can accelerate the old card

can't see the temp also, using on windows

If you haven't already switched to Xunbuntu, BAMT is easy. Took me 10 mins tops.

I tried this miner and Catalyst 14.6 with the same settings like I was using with x11mod miner with Catalyst 14.4 and have a lot of HW (Windows 7, 64bit).
Did anyone has the same?
sgminer.exe -k x11mod -o **** -p **** --intensity 17,17,15,15 --thread-concurrency 8192 --lookup-gap 2 --worksize 256 -g 2
(I have 2*7950 + 2*7870).
http://i61.fastpic.ru/big/2014/0628/75/46c4fb0577c6b2aa6cc4f5b2b5836b75.jpg

Have you tried with default setting ? (also I thought that 14.6 was only for windows 8.1)

What default settings do you mean?
I didn't change anything, I just copied the batch file from my x11mod sgminer folder to your miner folder and started it.

try without anything left except the intensity

I tried just now, It didn't help, still HW.

The problem with HW and driver v14.6(rc2) is solved.
Just open files: x11mod.cl / x13mod.cl for sgminer v4.1.xx (darkcoin-mod.cl / marucoin-mod.cl - for sgminer v5) and replace each line, it at beginning of the file:

• #define SPH_T32(x) ((x) & SPH_C32(0xFFFFFFFF))
  
• #define SPH_ROTL32(x, n) SPH_T32(((x) << (n)) | ((x) >> (32 - (n))))
  
  
• #define SPH_T64(x) ((x) & SPH_C64(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF))
  
• #define SPH_ROTL64(x, n) SPH_T64(((x) << (n)) | ((x) >> (64 - (n))))
  

to this

• #define SPH_T32(x) (as_uint(x))
  
• #define SPH_ROTL32(x, n) rotate(as_uint(x), as_uint(n))
  
  
• #define SPH_T64(x) (as_ulong(x))
  
• #define SPH_ROTL64(x, n) rotate(as_ulong(x), (n) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL)
  

It's work x11/x13 fine for me.

Thanks to butcherette from http://club.dns-shop.ru/forum/search/?action=go_post&id=931006 (http://club.dns-shop.ru/forum/search/?action=go_post&id=931006)

Thank you, it's working now.

Help!!!
Anyone have a 3 modified INF for the 14.6 RC2 yet for 5+ GPUs  ???

http://www.filedropper.com/146modtest
Try this one..

thanks for the fix i took the liberty of uploading the file with the corrected x11mod.cl and x13mod.cl files:

https://mega.co.nz/#!VYdChDTb!z22fJmx_rFoYg8sQecRwh9FEVWKP063PGN4XdeM22O8

As you can see the virus total matches the one in the OP here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623409.  Although it has alot of hits :/ kinda scary:


https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0ce514a7c264ff8b2ab6dfaf9677e1df9539a398df6eeed46f466a2131ac6825/analysis/
(first link is original copy in OP)
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/250513aa817824bdc80a5b2d0cfe370eaf4805a29e4cbf64450bb975d25bc91e/analysis/
(second link is file provided in my upload :))

Both same no additional files added, just changed the 2 lines in x11mod.cl and x13mod.cl.. If it had problems they were there before i touched it :). Hope it helps :)

this was changed some time ago, but not released yet... regarding the bad score over virus total (and it is the same for all miners), this is the way it is... don't like it, don't download it... (and compile yourself)

are older cards supported? Like x13modold ?

I wish there was a way to know if it is truly clean!  That's a lot of false positives!!!!!!!!!!!!

best way is to compile yourself. (I will personally stop giving binaries... it takes 15min, to instal mingw and the necessary packages...)

Now, miners are used in botnet so there will be always tagged as malware/virus... (now it is the case for all miners... )

You make it sound so easy, but for someone who never had ever compiled, its far from it. I recall my first time doing so, my fast coin wallet, took a whole stinking day to do it. Its not as simple as click and install....

You want to be a real champ, should do a step by step DETAILED faq on how to compile this....

Actually the wallet was more complicated for me too... it took me some time to understand I had to use windows console (and not mingw shell) to compile the package and the wallet... (not mentioning all the compilation issues while building the wallet...)

But for this there is already a file in doc directory "windows-built.txt" where every single step to build the environnement and compile sgminer are given... Last time I needed to remake a working mingw environnement it took about half an hour (mainly because of some network problem...).

Actually, I saw in the latest sgminer version that they added support to visual studio, I will certainly move to that (easier than grep to find a reference to a function across the build...  ;D)

Damn, im getting only 5.5MH on nist5 using 280x.

this is my cfg.

am i doing something wrong?

"intensity" : "21,21,21,21,21,21",
"worksize" : "256,256,256,256,256,256",
"kernel" : "nist5,nist5,nist5,nist5,nist5,nist5",
"lookup-gap" : "2,2,2,2,2,2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192,8192,8192,8192,8192,8192",
"gpu-threads" : "4,4,4,4,4,4",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "28",
"failover-only" : true,
"failover-switch-delay" : "60",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "1",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "7",
"tcp-keepalive" : "30",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin",
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1"

How did you get X15 working with this release?

Sorry for my mistake. Mix up with aznboy84 topic.

I need help to compile on  pimp(ubuntu)