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Good morning,

Based on the new SGMiner which is working with the latest AMD 14.6beta and AMD 14.4WHQL driver (Check Edit.2) and had been created by djm34 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=215787) - Thanks a lot for him and his efforts -, I re-complied the sgminer and fixed a consistent (idle/work resuming) issue within the mining process.


The problem had been totally solved, the results (before/after) of the new sgminer are (using X11mod):


AMD 7950: Before (2.4Mh/s) - after (3.39Mh/s) @1000/1500

AMD 280X: Before (3.2Mh/s) - after (4.3Mh/s) @1150/1500

 
SGminer (fixed) Download Link (Zlib1.dll file is included) : https://mega.co.nz/#!8gZ3BbBa!tJLKAr08Lirinh39h55naOY20gLbyPcQpBgWWcB3UDA (https://mega.co.nz/#!8gZ3BbBa!tJLKAr08Lirinh39h55naOY20gLbyPcQpBgWWcB3UDA)


Note: Check Edit (2-2462014): If you like to use AMD14.4 driver


AMD 14.6beta 14.4WHQL drivers for Windows 7/8/8.1-64bit Download Link: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/14-4-win7-win8-win8.1-64-dd-ccc-whql.exe


Refrences:

Original Thread by (djm34): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658411


Edit (1-2062014): AMD 14.6beta is behaving strangely with me after I tested for hours, here is the issue:

Whatever I tried to change the GPU/Memory frequencies, it is still the default (factory) values, whether I tried it via MSI after burner or via the miner's conf. file, though GPU-Z shows that the frequencies had been modified, but in fact the REAL ACTIVE values are the factory's one, and the hashrate had not been changed what so ever.

I dont' know is it me or is it the driver.


I downloaded AMD14.4 driver, tested it. I confirm it is working perfectly, the performance is the same of 14.6beta PLUS you can play with the frequencies.


Edit (2-2462014): If you like to use AMD14.4 driver, Do the following steps:

1- Download 14.6beta driver.

2- Delete bin files at you miner's folder.

3- Run the miner, a new bin file will be automatically created, this file is based on 14.6beta driver. You can copy it as a back up just in case.

4- Uninstall 14.6bta driver, then install AMD 14.4 driver.

5- Run the miner again (with the bin file been created with AMD14.6beta located at the miner's root folder), the performance will be as good as it was with 14.6beta driver.

6- OR if you don't want to follow all the above steps, you can ask your friend who has the same card and miner's configuration and an installed 14.6beta driver to create this bin file and send it to you.


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Note: I will lock this thread now cause I don't want to make djm34 - the creator of the new sgminer - tired with following 2 thread in the same time.


The reason made me created this thread is to make sure many of you will notice that the miner had been fixed.


So for more info and anything related to the new miner, kindly check this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658411.0

5xxx and 6xxx ？

thanks kozmos
would you mind to share settings for your cards (7950 & 280x) please

 What about heat and wattage? How're they in comparison?

 GREAT JOB !! Will test ASAP

can it support 5 & 6 series amd cards?

Thanks, will test this ..

just a small tip, dont use express installation, use custom and do not install HDMI audio driver, it seems that this can cause kernel power errors on win 7 machines and BSOD. If you are using your rig to play games then install the hdmi audio drivers then go to the device center and disable the hdmi audio for the cards that you dont use to output audio.

this problem exists in previous driver versions also

ok... this seems to work better even on my computer...  ::)
I really need to clean up my compiling environment...
One way or an other and if you have the choice, it is always better to compile yourself.

wow, that's a huge improvement! Excellent JOB!

 Guy, some assistance please, I'd like to test this as best as possible and spread the word, but I'd hate to break my 5x 280x win8.1 perfect stable rig.

 What would be the best procedure to uninstall my drivers (v12 something) and install the new ones? Someone over at DRK thread said to use DDU uninstaller in safe mode, but I'd like to hear some more opinions. Also, so many versions of DDU, do I have to match DDU version to driver version?

 Thanks!

safe mode, latest DDU, make a clean and restart, check the remove ATI folder checkbox.

just tested it, removed the old drivers with DDU uninstaller in safe mode, it seems that the statements are true, the speeds are increased and the temps are almost the same.


got to test it in older cards like 69xx 79xx, and also check the hashrate at the pools.


edit: i just tested on a 6950 a 7950 and a 7970 all Sapphire, it gave me 1mh/s more in total.

edit2:pool reports correct hash rates. Excellent job

Ok,i got 4.4 on 280x but pool doesn't see that.... ::)

 Sorry if it sounds noobish, not much of a gamer so not used to these things, and I know how picky drivers can get. Start Windows in safe mode right? Or the DDU software?

Ref Sapphire 7950 win7-32.
Before 3.070 avg. Wu .044
After 3.840 avg. Wu .056
2 threads.
Gonna head over to the other machine win7-64
She's at 3.220 on 14.4 right now.
When i hit it with 14.6 beta
I'm going for 4000 kh/s.
Thankx to all involved. Kudos

you must run windows in safe mode, if you start DDU in normal mode it will ask you to reboot in safe mode, just click yes and then run it again when windows boot in safe mode.

If some do the express install. Disable hdmi audio in device manger after then continue.

correct, but i dont want the drivers to exist at all, your choice!

thanks, but the speed on 290 and 290x is not increase in this (idle/work resuming) fix, please recheck

Edit: AMD 14.6beta is behaving strangely with me after I tested for hours, here is the issue:

Whatever I tried to change the GPU/Memory frequencies, it is still the default (factory) values, whether I tried it via MSI after burner or via the miner's conf. file, though GPU-Z shows that the frequencies had been modified, but in fact the REAL ACTIVE values are the factory's one, and the hashrate had not been changed what so ever.

I dont' know is it me or is it the driver.


I downloaded AMD14.4 driver, tested it. I confirm it is working perfectly, the performance is the same of 14.6beta PLUS you can play with the frequencies.


What's the difference between the miner's hashrate readings and the pool's hashrate readings for your card?

Have you tried it too with another pool?



If i will be able to add it i will do it ASAP, but give it a try


Sure, here it is: http://pastebin.com/4vS1gw8e



Heat is the same :) I can not confirm the power consumption cause I did not measure it, but I believe it is the same mostly cause there is no major change in the temperature.

You are welcome guys, the biggest credit goes to djm34.

I guess someone else faced the same problem, check this out: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623409.msg7406963#msg7406963

no speedup on 5850 :/, works, but speed seems unchanged

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope djm34 will come up with a miner which can improve 5xxx/6xxx.

I will try to see what can I do though my programming back ground isn't that strong.

This issue lies with MSI afterburner...
(actually I had that problem since some time and it isn't limited at all to 14.6 and was stuck for some time at 1080 which isn't my factory clock).
No get past that, you need to kill msi ab and restart it (or restart the computer before)

Considering the speed increase, you lose it if you don't use 14.6 (although, there were some report it was possible to use bin file generated in 14.6 in older version of the driver.  

I cant start this miner. zlib is missing is all i get on all rigs. Other miners are working.

Thank a lot djm34, I will give it a try too.

It was weird for me cause this is the first time ever facing such thing.

btw, as long as you are the creator of this new miner, would you like me to lock the thread and divert the readers to your topic now as long as this thread's reason (alerting as many users as possible about the the miner had been fixed) had been fulfilled?

Silly me I forgot to add it to the rar folder, I'm sorry. I will fix it and upload the folder again at the main post.

here is the link for the zlib file, paste it in your miner's root folder: https://mega.co.nz/#!s0Zn2RTC!f2_Z2ILTh0q8g9PURjaoEyt5sRBnQNoZfVhMAfzbDAA (https://mega.co.nz/#!s0Zn2RTC!f2_Z2ILTh0q8g9PURjaoEyt5sRBnQNoZfVhMAfzbDAA)

 also, please reassure us you did not pull a "girino" on us with hidden 2% hard-coded pool hopping in your favour  ;)

Ok, its working now but i dont see any boost in hash. Did you copyed the link to the right miner?
3 rigs, all 7950's.

We badly need miner which can improve 5xxx/6xxx cards.

I am getting message that zlib1.dll is missing and that sgminer cannot start!

Now we need miner which can improve any card. This one is not ok.

@aikklond read few post up

Copy from old miner and paste in new ;)

tried on 6950 (unlocked shaders), 6970, 5970 in a pc (H81 BTC PRO,RAM 4GB, G1830, W64, USB3 powered PCIE risers).

switched the driver from 14.4 to 14.6, after switching the driver, tried Lasybear's sgminer released on 2014-06-03 (successfully used by me before) and sgminer released yesterday by djm34 and got about 5% decrease on both miners in mining performance of x11 based coins.

Haven't used DDU this time for the driver update, used native AMD uninstaller & installer (felt lazy to restart pc into safe-mode because of lack of an attached monitor at the time and non-operational Teamviewer in the safe-mode). Checked driver version (14.2) in the device manager and it does correspond to catalyst 14.6 package.

Should I wait for an update of the the sgminer with better support of 6XXX and 5XXX series, thou some people in the thread report slight increase in performance using the same adapters and the method described in the thread ?

Or should I re-install (using DDU) the 14.6 driver first ?

Any comments are welcome.

Installed the 14.6 drivers and miner last night and was getting 4.2Mh on my 280x cards. However I would find that one card's load would drop to 0% after anywhere between 10min and an hour.

Uninstalled 14.6 and installed the 14.4 drivers and 'fixed' miner from the OP. I'm now back to my normal 3.2Mh on X11.


EDIT:
I pulled the .bin file originally generated when 14.6 was installed and I was getting 4.2Mh. Ran it in the fixed miner with 14.4 installed and I'm now getting 4.0Mh. Not quite as fast, but better than 3.2. Will monitor for stability.

EDIT EDIT:
Probably getting 4.0Mh instead of 4.2Mh as my clocks are now my normally set 1049 instead of the 1100 factory default I was getting stuck with under 14.6.

Here's my story:

2 rigs, one running win7, one running 8.1. Both with 14.4 drivers.

Win7 (2 280x, 1 290), installed everything as directed. Perfect. Got the expected increase in hash.

Win8.1 (4 280x), installed everything as directed. No increase in hash, one card fails after about 10 min.

Both rigs were using the previous conf files from the last version of SGMiner. Win 7 system, no changes and got the increase. On the Win 8.1 system original conf did nothing, i've tried about 2 hours of various conf tweaks. No change.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Going to try reinstalling everything later from the begining, but maybe someone else ran into issues on 8.1 like this.

The strange thing is, on nist5 older radeons gained as much as newer ones :/

As for drivers, no need to reinstall with 14.4 or 14.6
All one needs is to copy OpenCL files from 14.6 in the folder of sgminer. Bin file will be compiled by 14.6, but the system and OC will be controlled by 13.12 or 14.4 - win-win :)


PS: The real weird thing.
On X13 my 6970 increased speed with almost 20% :O
Maybe I have to check x11 with different settings from previous versions :S

It seems all parameters as: shaders/thread-concurrency, -w, -g are ignored

Dude, mind elaborating a bit? Where does one grab those OpenCL files, and just drop them in the main sgminer folder? I'd really rather not delete my drivers, especially after some reports of 10min drop to 0%

Curretly have 14.4 driver... SHould i be updated to 14.6?

Does 14.6 offer better performance on X11 or X13?

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

My release is based on a fork of lasybear release not girino so it doesn't contain this mechanism.  ;)

I have 280x , miner keeps on crashing after every 10 min :(

what OS, win 8.1?

4 and half hours, no problems at all, the 3 card rig is using a mix of 6970, 7950,7970, the 4 card rig is 280x toxic, 7950, and 2 7970. Windows 7 64bit, beta drivers installed without HDMI audio drivers.

this is the difference in the 3 card rig:

before:
6970: 1678
7950: 1823
7970:3239
total: 6740mh/s

after:
6970:1880
7950:2040
7970:4075
total: 7955mh/s

difference: 1215 mh/s



https://i.imgur.com/tWaf7qG.png

https://i.imgur.com/1B7gPmc.png

3 card rig:



4 card rig:

Your 7950 from 1st rig is hashing bad.

Any other link to download the sgminer, I can't download it.

it's ok now

i know, it's a fiiiiiiirst 7950 saphire batch, it's really bad....

Excellent!! Not trying to FUD or anything! Thanks for the answer!

I tested it but no increase ??? using 14.4 7950's

Delete that .bin created on 14.4 driver and copy this one. Its made on 14.6, 100% working  ;)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z2igfbzxeqrtly0/x11modTahitiglg2tc8192w256l4.bin

 ;)

Thanks

Before 2800kh/s @1030/1500
After 3560kh/s

and only 10W more :o
 ;D

Thx a lot !
~3.6mh / 7950  :)

any bin file for R9 290?

any working 14.6 bin for 69XX, 58XX, 59XX ?

Ok I have re-compiled the windows binaries from a fresh mingw install, and now it is working properly (mostly likely, I had different version of libcurl in the old one) https://mega.co.nz/#!hZUAzQDQ!GrLynWXGP5wFIiDmFpXnTiXV-AI_bkXEFfQrJpbwF1o

Has anyone noticed an increase for r9 270 cards, specifically gigabyte.

Yes I did, would you mind checking it again and make sure you are using AMD 14.6beta or at least AMD 14.4 driver?




Non available now..




I fixed this problem in a previous comment, you can download it now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658975.msg7415616#msg7415616




Did you have an older AMD driver before trying the SGMiner, cause I'm thinking MAYBE it had not been uninstalled perfectly.




This is a great thing :)

Give x11 a try and check what's gonna happen with its performance.





I personally tried both, 14.4 and 14.6bita is working fine with me with the same performance.

With 14.6beta you may face a problem of the frequencies wont be changed even if you will  modify it what so ever.

However read the past 2 pages of this thread and you will find the solution for this.




+1

and I did nothing but made sure every required compiling files are there and then recompiled it again.




What's exactly happened with your miner??



I have 7950, the hashrate got higher.

Try this config: http://pastebin.com/4vS1gw8e

Did anyone test power consumption compared to previous miners?
I see temps are a bit higher, maybe ~5-10% so one can expect the same "gain" in power bill...

Thanks!

thanks, can you send the link of file .bin for X13 ?

Win 7 x64 R9 280x Catalist 14.4. No increase
Use this one

got increase hash rate from 3.4 to 3.9 but need from 280x.
Or I just need install 14.6?

Is this somewhere on Github?

Well of course things run hotter. Hammer down baby. ;)
6 hours plus. Two machines 3 7950s.
1150 clock 1500 mem
2 threads.
Dont try undervolting until you have it running stable.
This fork hauls ass..
Dang i cant get to 4.0 mh.
But 3.900 will do! ;)
Wu .055 all day long after 20 minutes.
Hoooray!
Drop your intensity!!! I had to go down. To get cards to fire up..
Crash. One card up,one card down. Etc. driver,Needs the voltage. ;)
Watch the intensity on start up.
Start with I15 . Edit config accordingly.
Tweak the intensity, after start up,what ever flavour R X I .
Threw the g command in sgminer after its running.
Test. Tweak etc;)
Start with I 15. It gets wierd after 17 on a 7950
I use X.
X120 on a 7950 is the sweet spot .
0 rejects zero!
0 hardware errors.
3.880-3.900 all day long.
Thats down from X238 on the  previous miner. @ 3.070 mh
Way better share rate per minute.;) this fork..
X11 by the way Drk.
1 thread will always give the lowest hash rate.
2 threads is where i'm at with those numbers.
Work size always 256 on a 7950. I dont care what anyone says!
3 threads, hash rate will increase.
4 threads, it will also increase.
Pool dependent. Better pool more threads . ;) although,it splits the hash rat among threads and
3 and 4 throttle the cards and your reject rate will increase. Temps will jump around.
Hash rate hard to judge except via average.;) more threads more jumps.
Of course it will! 3 or 4 chances to get the math wrong.;)
Go with 2 until you wanna play. ;)
Everytime you update the software. Dump the previous bin or back it up.
Let it regenerate a new one.
After it builds the bin. Test. Etc.
Restart sgminer . Your true hash rate will be evident on 2nd start.
 It doesnt have to build the bin again. ;)
I went from fouth in my pool to number one.
I don't  see a problem with this soft ware unless of course
Your running win8. Yah know banned in China! Lol
Where is all the bit coins going? Fiatleak.com ;)
Kudos again.
Compute this nvidia. Lol
If i had a rocket launcher , i mean.
If i had a 7990. Ooooohh baby. .
Hash out.lol
Too many beers .

Sure, you will find the source at the original thread, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658411