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Hello, im trying to setup poolmining without using a seperate program to use cpu/gpu. I wish to simply play high cpu/gpu computer games to mine. How would I be able to setup bitcoin.exe to send info to BTCMine in order to join their pool? Sorry if this is terribly worded, basically i wish to play everquest 2 and to mine at my own spare time, not using power that isnt needed in the first place.

anyone?

Your question is a little difficult to understand, but I'll take a stand at one part of it.

As far as I know, you can't. The Bitcoin client won't connect to a pool to get work, it will only process its own work. Also, the Bitcoin client won't use your GPU, only CPU.

If you want to use your GPU, or mine against a pool, you need one of the standalone mining programs like GUI Miner (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=3878.0).

That question is a bit vague. Do you mean, you only want to mine while playing EverQuest 2? Or mine only when not playing EverQuest 2? For the latter, I believe there are mining programs and/or scripts that will only activate when your machine is idle, thus allowing you to play video games without having your computer slowed down.

If you want to mine on your GPU at the same time as playing games or doing other things, simply use m0mchil's poclbm miner (you can download GUIMiner, which includes poclbm) and add "-f 120" to the command line.

The -f switch tells the miner that you want it to back off so that you can maintain a certain frame rate in other programs, like Everquest 2, while it mines with your video card.

For the CPU miner, just lower the priority of the process using task manager, and it'll only use "spare" CPU resources.