Title: Mining on VEGA's with actual gaming drivers! (Cryptonight) No switching! Post by: m2gnus on March 12, 2018, 11:50:31 AM First, a screenshot confirming the work of this method.
https://i.imgur.com/DmQUojO.jpg * This instruction is in addition to the guide located on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/7pwsme/vega_dual_driver_guide_easily_switch_between/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/7pwsme/vega_dual_driver_guide_easily_switch_between/). * I got it by accident, while writing a .bat file. The original instruction suggests switching. I do not promise that it will work for you! I will rewrite main instruction to here. This will save time. For those that would be interested in mining Cryptonight coins when they are not gaming, I wanted to give a quick and dirty guide on how to switch between a gaming driver of your choice and Blockchain drivers with a few clicks using Windows Device Console Utility (devcon). 1.This guide assumes you have a working and stable Vega Cryptonight mining configuration with the Blockchain driver installed, and no gaming driver installed yet. There are plenty of guides out there already, but I would highly recommend following the one from /u/CircusDad here: http://vega.miningguides.com/ (http://vega.miningguides.com/)
2.Devcon is included when installing WDK, Visual Studio, and the Windows SDK. However, we only need the devcon.exe file. So to get it without all the other bloat we don’t need, follow instructions for your OS version in red text (about a quarter way down the page) from here: Quote https://networchestration. wordpress. com/2016/07/11/how-to-obtain-device-console-utility-devcon-exe-without-downloading-and-installing-the-entire-windows-driver-kit-100-working-method/ delete spaces to use link!
3. Get the correct directory for devcon:
4.Move your new devcon.exe file to the given directory (so for me C:\Windows\System32). Configure it to always run as an administrator:
5. Open the Command Window again and type the following: devcon.exe driverfiles “PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F”
6. Normally install any gaming driver you prefer, or Blockchain driver if you are installing that second instead (If you are installing the Blockchain driver, ONLY install the driver itself as noted in the guide I linked to above). WARNING: Switching is not currently stable with adrenaline drivers. You might sometimes get a BSOD when switching (for me, about 1/10 with 17.12.1 dirver). According to /u/Rholk88 switching was stable with the latest 17.11.x driver. Also /u/wily_virus has had no issues yet with 17.12.2 driver. 7. Follow the same instructions as bullet 5 with the gaming driver installed (or Blockchain driver if you installed that second). You should get another INF file with a new number. Write down that number, it will be different for everyone. 8. To switch between drivers:
9. Now let’s create a batch file to do bullet 8 automatically with one click:
Original bat quide: Quote @echo on set currentdir=%cd% cd C:\Windows\System32 timeout /t 5 devcon.exe disable “PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F” timeout /t 5 devcon.exe updateni C:\Windows\INF\oem[NUMBER] “PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F”
Now the most important thing! We create a batch file on the desktop, devcon.exe is left in the System 32 folder, we copy the batch file in my sample to System32 folder. Quote @echo on timeout /t 5 devcon.exe disable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F" timeout /t 5 devcon.exe updateni C:\Windows\INF\oem[Number of blockchain INF\DRIVER] "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F" timeout /t 5 devcon.exe disable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F" timeout /t 5 devcon.exe updateni C:\Windows\INF\oem[Number of game(adrenaline) INF\DRIVER] "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F" Now you can display this batch file on the desktop, creating a shortcut and launching it as administrator. Or just create a rule to initiate it when Windows starts! I hope if this guide helped you, you will help me a little. ;D My adresess to donate: Quote BTC: 1P3226TaeTXyi2weNnEAoz7AdfLfBJMGyC Quote ETH: 0xb6960f74e8f53831b2284051fea6176a9c3d1ba0 Quote LTC: LSPMy57CYRVVnbiUMTNzKWJN8XSsN3wWSs Quote XMR: 4ALcw9nTAStZSshoWVUJakZ6tLwTDhixhQUQNJkCn4t3fG3MMK19WZM44HnQRvjqmz4LkkA8t565v7i BwQXx2r34HNroSAZ Payment id: a3a27ad45eb7d62783d79033bdd2aa72e2eec82829eca621f6708d2e0c5e6397 Quote USDT: 1JRXv4uAfbADzpitk1BRKTcPWCHLFrVv58 |