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This is new thread for the miner, I created it because I cannot update OP of old thread, old thread is here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557604.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557604.0)
Please check old thread firstly, it contains a lot of useful information.

Current version - 13.2:

- Repacked to improve Windows 10 support.


Link:
https://mega.co.nz/#F!vhB2BCIA!ZuBRI_YyP-SztQnINK6xkA (https://mega.co.nz/#F!vhB2BCIA!ZuBRI_YyP-SztQnINK6xkA)

Mirror:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B69wv2iqszefRjNHVjdvMkF2VDA&usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B69wv2iqszefRjNHVjdvMkF2VDA&usp=sharing)

Claymore's XPM GPU Miner.
=========================

Two versions are available:
1. Pool version, works with YPOOL.NET only.   YPOOL is dead.
2. Solo version, works with standard Primecoin Wallet.

Catalyst 13.12 is highly recommended for best performance and compatibility. Catalyst 14.x is supported as well, use appropriate version of the miner. Miner v13.1 is compiled for Catalyst 15.12.

You can try to set "GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT" environment variable as "100" for best performance.

This miner is free-to-use, however, current developer fee is 5%.

This version is for recent AMD videocards only: 7xxx and 2xx. No nVidia support.

This version is for Windows x64 only. No Linux support. No Windows x32 support.

This version has no GPU temperature and overclocking management. You can use "Claymore GPUs Control Utility" for that.

This version contains "Primecoin Profit Calculator" utility.



COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:

-o ypool address for pool version and Primecoin Wallet address for Solo version.

-u <username>.<workername>

-p password

-di GPU indexes, default is all available GPUs. For example, if you have four GPUs "-di 02" will enable only first and third GPUs.

-ss CPU load mode. 1 (default) - low CPU load so you can use several GPUs in one system. 0 - a bit higher mining speed but heavy CPU load, so if you have several
GPUs or slow CPU do not use this value. 2 - minimal CPU load so you can use many GPUs on slow CPU, mining speed will be a bit less. 3 - super-low CPU usage.

-t number of CPU threas that are used to load GPU. 4 by default, it is good value for most cases. You can try to use 8 if your CPU is slow.

-sd detailed stats mode. 0 (default) - show minimal statistics. 1 - show more detailed statistics. You can also enable/disable detailed statistics by pressing "s" key.

-nofee: set "1" to cancel my developer fee at all. In this mode some recent optimizations are disabled so mining speed will be slower by about 20%.
By enabling this mode, I will lose 100% of my earnings, you will lose only 15% of your earnings and also will save about 15% of electricity.
So you have a choice: "fastest miner" or "completely free miner but a bit slower".
If you want both "fastest" and "completely free" you should find some other miner that meets your requirements, just don't use this miner instead of claiming that I need to cancel/reduce developer fee, saying that 5% developer fee is too much for this miner and so on.

-log <filename>: enable some logging to specified file.

-r restart mode. 1 (default) - restart miner if some GPU failed. 0 - do not restart miner automatically (display message only).

-m GPU memory usage mode. 0 - most compatible mode, but a bit slower. 1 - average usage (default, can be unstable on some systems), 2 - high usage, maximal mining speed (can be unstable on some systems).



SAMPLE USAGE FOR POOL VERSION:

NsXpmMiner.exe -o ypool.net -u YourLogin.WorkerName -p YourPassword
or
NsXpmMiner.exe -o ypool.net -u YourLogin.WorkerName -p YourPassword



SAMPLE USAGE FOR SOLO VERSION:

NsXpmMiner.exe -o 127.0.0.1:7332 -u YourLogin -p YourPassword -xpm AeRaNNK1JbZNKQTaXLJfeVUWQ5cPN5BiRF
or
NsXpmMiner.exe -o 127.0.0.1:7332 -u YourLogin -p YourPassword -xpm AeRaNNK1JbZNKQTaXLJfeVUWQ5cPN5BiRF

Do not forget to specify your XPM address!



SUPPORTED CARDS:

290/290x/390/390x
280x/380x
270/270x
Fury
7970
7950

It is important to use Catalyst version which is required by the miner, otherwise you can get really bad performance or even fatal error like "invalid target".
For multi-GPU systems: disable CrossFire in Catalyst Control Center.



UNSUPPORTED CARDS:

6xxx and earlier. These cards will not be supported at all.



HOW TO CHECK IF EVERYTHING WORKS PROPERLY:

Press "m" to see a performance counter, total round time (TRT). Don't compare this value to other miners,
this value is not related to any other numbers of different miners.
You should see values like this:

70 for 290X
100 for 280X
150 for 270X

Less values are better, you can overclock cards or do anything you want to minimize these values.
Also note that CPU load must be less than 80%, otherwise GPUs won't be loaded completely.
Even identical cards installed on the same system may show slightly different values, it's ok.
Also do not overclock your cards too much, it can cause such bad things like a lot of invalid shares, total speed degradation, crashes and so on.
Note: if video driver crashed and Windows recovered it, you need to reboot PC, otherwise miner will work VERY slowly.



TROUBLESHOOTING

1. Install Catalyst v13.12.
2. Disable overclocking.
3. Reboot computer.
4. Try "-m 0" option to decrease GPU memory usage.



IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SOLO MINING

1. Use official Primecoin wallet with this miner.
2. Wallet setup: copy default "primecoin.conf" file from miner archive to "c:\Users\YourWindowsLoginName\AppData\Roaming\Primecoin" folder, then start wallet. Of course you can change
settings in "primecoin.conf" if you know what you are doing.
3. It is very important to have a lot of connections in Primecoin wallet, otherwise you will have many orphaned blocks.
So if you have only 8 active connections, you need to allow incoming connections, check related topics about it.



IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT MINING XPM ON YPOOL

You cannot estimate your eranings until you run miner for at least 24 hours.
A lot of people start miner for 3-6 hours and then claim that they earn too small amounts.
Ypool calculates earnings based on last 160 blocks that were found by Ypool, so you need to wait
at least 5*160 blocks until you see real earnings, it is about 12 hours.
Another important thing is that Ypool gives you big share values only when you found 9ch or 10ch shares,
it takes several hours to find such shares, so to estimate your profit you need at least 24 hours of mining.

So the correct way to calculate earnings is: mine for 24 hours and then check your earning per block in pool statistics,
and multiplicate it by blocks that ypool finds per 24 hours. Or mine for 48 hours and then take earnings for last 24 hours.

Again: after 24 hours you will not see good XPM value in your ypool account, it is because it takes up to 24 hours to get good mining speed.
But when you drop mining you will get coins for the same time, so mining is fair. To get earning rate immediately after first 24 hours of mining
you need to open "stats" tab on ypool and select "blocks found", then click on latest block number that pool found and find your name in the list of all accounts.
See the XPM rate that you get per this block. Then open "overall pool stats" tab and see the number of blocks that pool found for 24 hours.
Now multiply your block rate by this number of blocks and you will get average earning that you will get within next 24 hours.
If you don't like such calculations you can just remember XPM that you got after 24 hours (A) of mining and then wait another 24 hours and check XPM again (B), then calculate earning for last 24 hours as B - A.



INFORMATION ABOUT MESSAGES THAT YOU CAN SEE DURING MINING

Sometimes you can get message "invalid share: reason share is outdated". It is ok, it just means that you found share too late, new block was just found but miner
did not get it yet and found share for old block. Such old shares are not accepted by server.

Sometimes you can get message "invalid share: reason Share failed Primecoin's CheckPrimeProofOfWork()". It is ok, you should not get such messages often,
mainly it shows when miner found large chain (length >7) and also found subchain 7ch, this subchain is incorrect since it is a part of larger chain. Larger
chain is accepted by server and subchain is rejected.

In old topic yu said to use 13.12 drivers. But one card - 290x - works well with 14.4. So maybe it's not drivers only?

On 13.12 all cards are working properly. On different drivers versions it can work too, but in many causes it will work slowly, or won't work at all. That's why miner at starting shows "Catalyst 13.12 is required for best performance and compatibility".

And you are not going to adopt your miner to new drivers anyway?

I will move to new drivers, but later, right now my code is optimized for 13.12 and it will take some time to optimize it for 14.x. AMD releases new versions all the time so perhaps I will wait for Catalyst 15 :)

reduced dev fee 5% wow thank you !!! before it was.... 5%
I am thrilled  ;D

No mate, this is the XPM version... It was originally 10% ;D

What about fail-over restart? Or restart by timer, just like xmr-miner? You promised it in next version, as I remember...

How much hash 7950 should have on this version  ???

Yeah I remember, but I had no time to add it in this version. Anyway it will be added soon.

EDIT: REINSTALL 13.12 Driver solve the problem.

Modal window appear on V12

ERROR
Loop unroll: pragma unroll (line 321)
not unrolled because its trip count is unknow
...
same with line 430 and 391, and:

ERROR E010 Irreducible controlflow detected


On all machines with 7950, 290x, 7790...

Anyone else with this error?

Yeah, me.

Looks like version 12 does not even work with drivers other than 13.12. I don't want to use 13.12 drivers, because I use a lot of other software that benefits from using the latest drivers. I don't mind a 2% loss of speed, as long as the miner works properly. I get this: 

amazing how his update is the same speed as the opensource ver and came out right after also many pools support xpt and dev fees but he makes his users use ypool shows that he doesnt care for the coin and decentralization about has bad as cex.io with btc hashrate

I am going to counter the sheer idiocy of this post by giving Claymore a high five for constantly providing speedups and generally being a kickass dev.

u must be thick or just retarded if u think that

or a paid off troll

who cares of the fee?
everyone equally pay's fee. So, it doesn't matter. Why don't you ask pool owners - why they take a mining fee?

You could be a bit clever and check time of posts:
- My post about v12.0: July 14, 2014, 07:59:19 AM
- Latest opensource came out: July 14, 2014, 01:28:00 PM

So I have time-machine.
Anyway, I'm not going to feed trolls so I will ignore such things in this thread.

Does anyone here have a gpu farm currently running for primecoin?

pool operaters take a fee because it costs them money to run the equipment so that you can mine on thier pool. if they rent the equipement from a data center. it can be as high was 200$ a month for a dedicated server to run the pools you use. if they own it. it was sure as hell a lot more than 200$ to buy that equipment. so the fact that they take a fee is backed up by solid data.

must be a broke time machine cause his 7.1 came out July 13, 2014, 09:44:56 AM plus we cant see your code but u can always be on his git page ready to up 1 every time which would be okay if u were opensource

And I could see its sources? Can you send me direct link to that message? In past I already caught you on statement that you could not confirm (which I call trolling), let's do it one more time.

So what? Claymore takes a fee, because he's taking his time to do us a better miner. I don't see any problem about it.
If you agree about fee - take it and use it, if you don't - go mine something else/or with another miner. What's the problem about that? OR you can do self miner with 0% fee.

u really think claymore is 1 guy lol

he is a clan  ;D

I don't care. 1 guy or 2 guys. Or Claymore is a girl. Who cares?
With his miner I make a money. And I don't care about fee. It's just like little more difficulty for everyone. I don't greed. Who cares if claymore doing 10 btc a day because of fee? I don't care. It's his money. It's his job.

how can i confirm on a closed source miner with a old ver thats not even downloadable anymore lets see the code then u can prove me wrong scammer

the fact still remains that your v12 came out after also my problem is the pool u support and the fact u support no others that use the same protocol i have been with xpm since it started so u damn right i will try to protect it

The fact is v12 came out before sources of opensource miner with similar speed were available, so you cannot state I use it in v12.
This fact can be confirmed easily by checking messages in both threads. That's all.

there is no fact when there is no code to see to prove that on your end but like i said u dont care for the coin it just a money game to u other wise u would be opensource like the other devs and support any pool

but it wont last hope u made your $ while u could

where is the connection betwean the currency, fee, miner, claymore, pool?
To my mind, if pool owner want to add his pool to claymore miner - he can ask about it.

LOL MXCNOW MOD biggest trolls out. And calling people retard in this day and age show how stupid you are.
Why dont you go back to to the stoneage where you belong!

Edit: Nevermind

Hello. Claymore. I want to ask you a favor. Please add option to solo miner to define 2 server. I have a lot of rigs. And i want a backup server option. server 1 for main. retrying 3 times before switching to backup server and go back to main server when it`s online.
Like you did it in xmr miner...
Thank you very much

+

XPM miner supports ypool only, so the only option is to switch it to solo mode automatically if ypool is not available. I will think about it, but ypool is very stable and has good ddos protection.

OK, you are not understand me. I think to be able to define 2 server for solo miner. example. 192.168.1.5 for server 1 and 192.168.1.10 for server 2. If one of my machine is turned off due to some kind of problem, my miners keeps going mining...

thanks

For some unknown reason my 5th GPU drop the mining after 2 hours of mining... any ideas?

Been running 11 for weeks no problems.  Installed 12, it crashes my drivers immediately.
Running 13.12
3 x r9 280x saphire toxic.
windows 7 64bit

Claymore any ideas how to fix?

v12 uses more video memory. Have you set GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100?

Yup, still crashes.  Is there a way i can provide some sort of debug log?  I should clarify.  Its not the miner that crashes, its my ATI drivers.  I get a notice, something like: "Display driver AMD has stopped responding and has recovered"

usually that means your volts are too low or clocks too high and running 3 cards on a rig u wont know which it is not alll cards are created = some can do higher clocks at less volts than others even with the same brand/model

i have this version 12.0 running for 1 day now..i have 2 r9-280x.one of my gpu stucks after 6 hours and does not mine..i have to restart the miner to get it working again. can you please add the auto restart option as soon as possible...for the mean time any suggestion on how i can set to restart the bat file at fixed interval..

same problem here, R9 290x

Thanks for the tip, but i'm running stock settings for these cards.

I have three files to accomplish this, it might not be the best method but it works well for me:
1. Startup.bat
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
NsXpmMiner.exe -o 127.0.0.1:7332 -u user -p pass -xpm key -ss 0 -sd 1

2. restart.bat
@echo off
:loop
ping 192.168.2.2 -n 1 -w 10000 > nul
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq NsXpmMiner.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "NsXpmMiner.exe">NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" start "launcher" "C:\path\to\miner\Claymore XPM GPU Miner SOLO\startup.bat"
goto loop

3. crasher.bat
@echo off
:loop
ping 192.168.2.2 -n 1 -w 7200000 > nul
taskkill /f /im NsXpmMiner.exe
goto loop

Create all three files. then add crasher.bat and restart.bat to your system startup.

Restart.bat checks if the miner is running, if it isn't it starts it again.
Crasher.bat intentionally kills the miner every 2 hours, you can adjust the intervals to your liking.

If this post helped you, donations are welcome: ALg4ihV994ztw2B244sXonHVPmoS7iHVQH
Best,
crendore

cool...this is what i was looking for..let me mine some XPM and then i can give you some...i shifted to mine xmr as i was not able to resolve this problem...will try this today and let you know..if you do not mind care to tell you what NUL stands for??? also what is the Ip for?? is it local ip address or should i keep the same.

Windows bat scripts don't have timers.  The ping thing is a way to wait a certain amount of time before doing the next thing.  nul should stay nul, don't change that.  The ip should be one that doesn't exist on your local network.

Claymore,

Got any other ideas on how to get Ver 12 running without it constantly crashing my drivers?

Claymore we need a fix for this miner getting restarted over and over please

Ok, I'll release update in a day, I'm going to add an optional mining mode, a bit slower (1-2%) but with less memory usage, also "-r" option to restart miner automatically.

Claymore,
I have noticed that the program will error out very ungracefully (looks like a memory leak) if the internet connection gets dropped while the miner is attempting to either submit a share and/or reconnect after a while with no sucess.  It seems to happen almost every time if the internet has been down for more than a couple hours.

You should be able to replicate this problem by starting out the miner connected and hashing, and then disconnecting the internet and waiting for a day or so.

I will test it now.

some times the when the miner is restarted ..its not able to connect to pool and it goes into loop for retry after 10 seconds...there should be a limit for that..if that time limit is crossed the miner should restart again...

Claymore, i also noticed a small bug.  If you start the miner while the client is still syncing, it goes into a loop waiting for it to sync.  The moment it syncs the miner crashes.

I cannot reproduce it for some reason. During sync the wallet sends a lot of blocks to miner, it displays them, but with no error.

v12.1 is available:

- Added "-r" option.
- Fixed some connectivity issues.

Thanks for doing this, but it still crashes with "-r 1"

try setting:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 85
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

Thanks for the tip.  Still crashes. i'm at a loss. just keep mining with 11 i guess.

i have been mining primecoin with 5 x 290x GPU and after 6 days of mining this was my results:

day 1: 8 blocks
day 2: 5 blocks
day 3: 5 blocks
day 4: 4 blocks
day 5: 1 block
day 6: 1 block (today)

anyone else having this kind of low block performance too?

I've noticed in msi afterburner that the cards don't always run at 100% after a while.  I think its  a bug in the miner. i just reboot the miner every couple hours with the batch script i posted earlier in this thread.

i have been mining using your restart bat files, so far 1 block in 24 hours.... the previous day (yesterday) i found 7 blocks, now only 1 single block

its because you dont have  a brain

says "ozzy"  lol... "of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most"  --Ozzy Osbourne

But really... is anyone really having good luck with XPM solo any more?  the difficulty is mighty high but this calculator should be close: http://anty.info/primecoin-calculator/

I dont have luck any more with solo.... I was tried to figure out where is the problem. And don`t say because of high diff. I am found blocks with high diff. someone can check diff at these days:

7.1.2014 8 block
7.2.2014 8
7.3.2014 6
7.4.2014 3
7.5.2014 5
7.6.2014 8
7.7.2014 5
7.8.2014 5
7.9.2014 4
7.10.2014 2
7.11.2014 3
7.12.2014 1
7.13.2014 0

this was 8x280x
after that no luck... 2-3 block for a day
wher i can check difficulty for these days for statistics
thanks

http$://coinplorer<.>com/Charts/Difficulty/XPM

v12.2 is available:

- Added "-m" option to improve compatibility with some systems ("-m 0") or to increase mining speed a bit ("-m 2").

can't download

PLS upload

Both Google Drive and Mega don't work for you?

GOOGLE yes! mega:pool  eorr

tks

Claymore

Where is the trick?

Solo mining
 
when diff 10.964 found 13 block for 24h (3-4 days before)
when diff 10.962 found 8 block for 24h (2 days ago)
now diff is 10.960 found 2 blocks for around 16 h.... (now)

nothing else changed, except difficulty.

I don`t understand

In Primecoin, stable hashrate does not guarantee stable number of solved blocks for the same time. Use ypool if you don't like solo mining and want stable earnings.

will you add support for old cards like 6970 and 5970? I have lots of them.

Currently I don't have plans to support old cards in this miner.

Can you please tell me if you know why my GPU are throttling this way?

https://i.imgur.com/ocD5s8C.jpg I use 3x7990 on a asrock oc formula mb with 2 PSU delta IBM 1200w and corsair 850w connected.So power is out of discution.Tried any type of overcloack or default.

The problem is that i get 47 CPD when they are throttling very fast like in this printscreen and when they are "lazy" get 40 CPD.

How is your cooling?  Usually when your GPU gets throttled down it's because the VRRM is getting tooo hot.  look in gpu-z to see what your temps look like.  That's a common problem in 7900 series cards.

temps are from 70 to 90 when outside are 30c + .On scrypt I didnt have this problem.Al gpus are doing the same.Its not temperature.

 ;)

http://anty.info/primecoin-calculator/ doesn't work any more. How can I calculate my profit ? Example, I have 4 cards 280x with 35 chains per day, how many xpm coins I going to mine a day ? Thank you very much.

https://bitcointa.lk/threads/xpm-ann-primecoin-high-performance.150464/

...
Q: How many blocks should I expect to find?
A: My current formula for turning chains/day into blocks/day is as follows:
blocks/day = chains/day * (0.97 * (1 - fracDiff) + 0.03)
Here fracDiff is the fractional part of the mining difficulty (i.e. fracDiff = diff - floor(diff)).
...

Block reward is (999 / (diff*diff))

What is floor diff ? Is it 10 now ? Thanks

Hi Claymore, do you plan to support AMD 7990 graphic card? or 12.2 already support it?  thanks.

How many coins per day do you get with one 270X?

should support, 7990 = 2x7970 downclocked

Miner must work with this card.

GPU always get throttling when mine primecoin.DEV can't fix

I got a blue dead screen when mining XPM with HD7990,anyone got this ?  ???

Have you tried "troubleshooting" section from readme file?

see where the speed? 7970 x 4 =? xpm / day?

Check previous page:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=693680.msg8510829#msg8510829 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=693680.msg8510829#msg8510829)

Any word on new drivers version? Is there a way to run the miner with 14.7? Maybe with minimal performance handicap?

Yes, I will release version for 14.x drivers in 1-2 days, I've almost finished it.

I look to every single row in your readme file  ;D ,but not yet disable the Overclock,let me try 1 last time.Will feed back soon

i have 2 r9 280x and i am getting only 12 CPD...i should be getting around 18 i guess..i have been running for more then 5 hours..

running with -ss 0 and -m 2 parameters...

system config is
windows 7
8 GB RAM
amd sempron
13.12 amd drivers.


is there anything more i should or this is the max i can get

This miner does need CPU resources, especially at -ss 0.  You need to run -ss 1 or -ss 2.  Sempron is a single core piece of junk.

Anything new?

@Claylmore

What's the expected 10chains / 11chains ratio ?

can we mine on hash.camp with this miner??

No, only ypool is supported, or you can use solo version.

I will release new version in a few hours, both 13.12 and 14.x, also with some speedup.

v13.0 is available:

- Improved speed by about 4% for all cards. Up to 14.3 CPD on non-overclocked 290X (Catalyst 13.12).
- Added version for Catalyst 14.x. Note this version can be slower by 1-3% than version for Catalyst 13.12.
- Added "Primecoin Profit Calculator" utility.

Hello

I am tested miners:

rig1:

14.7 rc1 driver
4x280x

with 12.2 version 36cpd
with 13.00 13.12 version 37.53 cpd
with 13.00 14.x version 37.44 cpd

rig2:

14.7 rc1 driver
3x290x

with 12.2 version 38.48 cpd
with 13.0 13.12 version 40.12 cpd
with 13.0 14.x version 39.8 cpd

Better to use 13.12 version even it i have 14.x drivers....

Thanks for results. My is 37.2 cpd (v.13, catalyst 14.7) vs 35.5 cpd (v.12, catalyst 14.7)
Details:
-rig 4x280x sapphire vapor (elpida), proc. amd x250 3.0ghz, 8gb ram
- -ss 3 and -m 2 mode
- core\memory clock: 1070\1550
This is better performance for my farm, maybe someone could give an advice: what is most important to oveclock, core or memory?

Core.  1550 is plenty on the ram.

I have also tested miner. And i am getting strange results. I have 16 r9 290 tri-x. I am mining over 48 hours. Even the miner says that i am getting around 12 CPD per day per 1 card, on the ypool real situation is totally different. For 48 hours i have mined total 133 coins, witch is 4 CPD per card. Can someone have the same thing or this is normal? It's very strange that i am getting 3 time less coins on the pool ???

Use "Primecoin Calculator" from latest miner. Diff=10.98, CPD = 12*16 = 192, calculator shows "blocks: 9.485, XPM: 78.594" per day, so 157 coins for 48 hours. Subtract dev and pool fees and you'll see that 133 coins is normal.

Ok. Thanks.

Hi All,

I had a problem about GPU Miner v13.0, on my rig1 (3 x 280x), I can on;y see the about 52x shares/h on ypool, but can't see the correct CPD or ch/h on itself, did anypne meet this issue before?
rig2 (2 x 280x) didn't have this issue. rig1 and rig2 almost the same beside the amount of graphic card. Catalyst:13.12, OS: windows 7 SP1 x64.

I restart rig1 and add parameter "-ss 2", the current CPD is normally.

Hello guys, I've been "offline" for quite a long time...
How is it going with mining (XPM for example), is it still profitable in terms of electricity bills?

How is profitability compared to X11 coins\multipools?

Thanks and happy mining)

I think the new miner is melting my psu cables . I already downgraded voltage for cards,only miner client I changed from version 12.

And i have noticed that my cards run a bit hot. Is this is normal?

Heya Claymore! What about next version with reducing fee to 2,5% ?

I will reduce fee in future, but not right now. Right now there is "nofee" mode or alternative miners if you don't like current fee.

-ee option will work for this miner?
I have problems with your miner connecing a pool: every 3 hours my internet connection is broken for 1 minute(auto-restart for stability reason) after that about 20% miners didn't recconect to the pool and trying infinitly to connect. If I manually close miner and start it again - all ok, mining resumes. There is some bug in your network connect algoritm.

The problem is not in network connection algorithm, the problem is that if you use some modem, any application can lose internet connection forever sometimes if you drop internet connection and then restore it. I saw this problem several years ago, but now I cannot reproduce it since I have connection over LAN and disabling/enabling network card does not cause any problems.
The only thing I can do is auto-restart miner after several unsuccessful connection attempts.
What kind of internet connection do you have? Also PM me messages that miner shows.

1 more question : i saw the unconfirm coins are slowing down after 2 or 3 days mining,then if i close the miner and re-open it again,the unconfirm status show the number increasing.

3G modem + router
But cgminer for example works fine. The message I'll send you in a few days(mining another algorithm right now)

Can someone here with a 270X comment on the power consumption?

is it like scrypt or x11?

This kind of message. Cgminer, sgminer works fine! Internet connection is 3G modem + router, modem&router auto power off and on every 6 hours for 1 minute.
http://s014.radikal.ru/i329/1410/d6/d51230d498e3.jpg

Hello

I am tested miners:

rig1:

14.7 driver
6x280x
1100/1500 clock

with 13.00 14.x version 58.8 cpd

rig2:

14.6  driver
4x290
1000/1250 clock

with 13.0 14.x version 52.4 cpd

For all bat file is :
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
NsXpmMiner.exe -o ypool.net -u xxx -p xx -ss 3 -m 2


It is OK? Or could be better?

xpt : Disconnected, auto reconnect in 10 seconds
Share submission failed. The client is not connected to the pool.

What a problem? How fix?

It can be because of pool or because of your internet connection. It's not a problem if you see this message once a day. You should worry only if you see this message every hour or less.

Thanks !!!

Hey, Claymore...

1.Does this miner support AMD R9 295x2?
2.Does the miner see it as two 290x's?
3.Would this card's performance be on par with two 290x's?
4.What kind of performance gain, if any, could one expect to see from the newly released 290x 8GB vs the regular 290x 4GB?

1,2,3. I don't have 295 card here, but miner must support this card and performance must be as for two 290 cards.
4. 8GB GPU memory won't improve performance at all for this miner.

Hi,

I have an important question using overclocking utility.

For Radeon R7 240 with 2 gig vram:
1) What best settings for temperature and ect...
2) This utility must run minimized while running miner correct?

Using miner:
I have two cores cpu and what the best setting while running miner on my GPU?

Looks like a pretty good CPD to me but are you paying for electricity?  If you have free or cheap electricity, awesome but if not you're only getting just over $3 per day with that setup and most places will run over that much to power that rig.  If you're just trying to collect some coins, good for you.

Wow! I am earning 1 xpm on every 2nd day on average! I know this isn't great other members but this will do until getting better GPU months from now!

Since I have 2 cores CPU it's following settings I find confusing:
-ss and -t

Based on readme file

If I want have super-low CPU usage, it safe set -ss 3?

About -t does this has something to with number of CPU cores?

Since defaul setting is 4, I set to 2 to the number of CPU core that I have.
Now how safe is to it 8?

Yes, "-t" value is number of CPU cores.
"-ss" is how this value indicates how the CPU cores will be used intensively. Nothing prevents to experiment and find the value that will be less likely to interfere with work. By the way, i'm setting this value on "0" (high usage) on two cores CPU and six-cores CPU two. Because the difference is almost not noticeable.

> Since defaul setting is 4, I set to 2 to the number of CPU core that I have.
> Now how safe is to it 8?

Why 8? You haver eight cores CPU or higher?

Thanks to clear with me

Since you told having -t 8 is for at least 8 CPU core, then why
in readme area mention 8 if CPU is slow?
Having 8 CPU core is hardly slow which seems telling me the readme isn't correct, right?

At least this information is just weird.

Agreed! About using multiple GPUs, no need using multiple monitors right?

Here what I'm wondering:
Using windows 7, Right now one Radeon R7 and I am to purchase R9, does catalyst previously installed takes all GPUs into considerations and without installing another catalyst copy?

1. Of course not
2. Yes, all drivers in one package

I hope these cards will not be used with the dual-core processor?

Not at all, I am having my eyes getting system with 6 cores to be better but I can't get it then 4 cores should do right?

It depends on what exactly r9 video card you want to buy. For r9 270X or below will be enough and quad-core CPU.

R9 270x is exactly the one.
Therefore as I gather, having R7 and R9 installed then 4 cores CPU work, correct?

Yep.

Perfect, below image is an sample of 12 hours mining:
http://i60.tinypic.com/zlw56d.png

I have few questions:

Based on SHARES FOUND TYPE:1... where are being credit to "ch" area?

I also found once there an entry on "10ch" then avg CPD is seen and not before correct?
About avg CPD, is this what my system producing?

About toggle "s", is there to start miner starting detailed stats just in miner restarting?
Is there a way to input/append shares found and ect... to text file within miner setting

This is certainly a best miner!

About avg CPD, yes.
About toggle "s", it not restart miner but just change the view.
I hope to answer the other questions Claymore or something else.

This is the result of work R9 270X?

Yep! I think you're answered my question!
Oh, yes, above result of work is on R7. What do think so far? if you see any needed improvements, I trust you can tell me!

This explains the poor results. Even my old overclocked HD7850 gives to pool about 130 shares per hour.

I guess in getting R9 is best route. I also notice yesterday the avg CPD were over 6.00, does this mean anything?
Using R7 and R9 270 using 4 core, what the amount shares can be produced so I know?

6 CPD is better of course. With 6 CPD you can get about 2,944 XPM per day. And with two your cards about 3,876 XPM.

Exactly what I thought but as I wake up, I noted noted miner has restarted at some and seem taking place almost every day! Why is that? Are there ways to fix this?

It is rather a problem of the ypool. Because I also notice periodically restart my miners and not only Primecoin. It's not much bothers me because miners almost immediately begin to work as before.

Hi claymore, is it possiable to support AMD firepro series? http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/workstation/firepro-remote-graphics/s9150#
this card I had test but can't recognize by GPU miner v13.0

I don't have this card here, but it must work. If miner cannot find this card it means that you need to install OpenCL.

Thanks for reply, I'll check AMD website to see if any driver/SDK support opencl enable on window7.

For notes, after install Monther board graphic driver, opencl function become to work.

At one point I see this
http://f18.ifotki.info/org/a6e03629ef12f2d0591a040923486e3351179d206212700.jpg (http://i-fotki.info/)

win 8.1
cat 13.12
GPU Miner v13.0
6*280x
before it was ok, about 53 ch/d
WHF?

It looks like time counter overflow, I can fix it easily, but to confirm it: How long does your system work without reboot?

53 days,
I rebooted it. Now it is looks normally  ;)

I use time counter that overflows after 49 days without reboot :)

Hello everyone, is it still worth mining XPM in terms of electricity bills?
Thanks.

I'm dig in the prime  Ypool. 7 hours my rigs total power of 180 CPD received
BALANCE (XPM)
0.00001663
UNCONFIRMED (XPM)
12.58535590

Why so few? in another pool with another miner obtained 5 times more.
Ypool scammers?...

Ypool is ok, but I see there too little block rate and a lot of orphans.
I think, problem in original primecoind code.. after some hours work pool node (with very high block rate ~120 blocks/hour) begin send new blocks with delay 1-2 minutes.

I have configured pool xpmforall for restarting every 4 hours, it must help ypool work properly at current primecoin network speed and difficulty.

Which version works with the 14.12 omega drivers? Thanks.

It called "Claymore XPM GPU Miner v13.0 Beta - POOL - Catalyst 14.x"
Also works fine with beta AMD drivers.

That's what I tried and it doesn't seem to be compatible.

At least i don't have any problem with this version. Write in more detail about a problem. You get some errors or what? And write general information (OS, x86 or x64, videocard name, etc.)

Hello, is this project abandoned or something ? No new releases for latest drivers or optimizations for latest video cards like fury ?

I know this is effectively a necrobump reply, but this question never got answered.

I woudn't expect Claymore to forget about his/this miner, but he certainly has no reason to continue maintaining it for newer cards given XPM's complete deadness.

That being said, Claymore is a hell of a dev so he probably woudn't need much time at all to bring this miner up to date for the Fury cards if XPM somehow resurrected itself from the grave one of these days.

Actually it works with R9 Nano, i don't know where was a problem, maybe in a drivers of my old farm maybe in OS. But with Win 10 and fresh last drivers before Crimson ver it gets ~15 CPD.

I was away for some time, today I noticed that the miner does not work with Catalyst 15.12, so I recompiled it (solo version only because I see ypool is dead). I did not check the performance though, it seems it has the same speed.

Current version: 13.1:

- Compiled for Catalyst 15.12.
- Updated "Primecoin Profit Calculator" utility.

Be very careful, guys!

Claymore miners are very fast but a lot of shit inside :(

Can you explain, prove? May be you can create better software?

Thanks man. Glad you back.

Yes, I can.

Your miner mine something it want, not me.
I never mined in merge mode so I did not pay attention.

But 2 weeks ago I decided to try merge mining at Minergate.

So I put follow stratum address in the batch file: -o stratum+tcp://mcn-bcn.pool.minergate.com:45650

But your miner thinks it knows better what to do and connects to another socket - connecting to 'bcn.pool.minergate.com' <176.9.47.243> port 45550

So the question is simple - WTF ??

Screen log is below....
_________________

Main pool is bcn.pool.minergate.com

╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║            Claymore CryptoNote CPU Miner  v3.4 Beta            ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
64-bit version
CPU supports AES-NI - faster mining!
Logical CPU cores: 8
Using 6 threads
scfg: 1
FAST MODE ENABLED!
1 pool specified.
Press "m" key for tune mode.
Stratum - connecting to 'bcn.pool.minergate.com' <176.9.47.243> port 45550
Stratum - connecting to 'bcn.pool.minergate.com' <176.9.47.243> port 45550
Stratum - Connected
Stratum - Connected

It is the thread of a different miner, it's a good idea to read topic's title before posting.
Now, if you have downloaded the miner from original links in OP, it will never do such things.
This command line works for me as expected and anyone can confirm it easily:
NsCpuCNMiner64.exe -u 449TGay4WWJPwsXrWZfkMoPtDbJp8xoSzFuyjRt3iaM4bRHdzw4qoDu26FdcGx67BMDS1r2bnp7f5hF 6xdPWWrD3Q3Wf7G6 -p x -o stratum+tcp://mcn-bcn.pool.minergate.com:45650

Hey hey, Claymore!  :D


Do you intend to consider Polaris support for your miners given their purported low wattage / high performance?

1. Yep, my fault. But you didn't answer it original topic @ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=647251.0 so I found another one with your fresh messages.
2. I downloaded miner from YOUR original topic - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=647251.0 link was https://mega.co.nz/#F!Hg4g1bLT!4Upg8GNiEZYCaZ04XVh_yg
3. Something very very very strange is going on -
 if I type command text in CMD - it works as expected,
 but if I put the same text inside BAT file - DONT work, changed pool.

So I'm lost :(

I told about starting with ADMIN level, without admin credentials - slow mode, couldn't allocate memory.

Again, original miner cannot change address and port. Check pools.txt, may be your pool there.

Yes, as soon as I can get Polaris here for tests :)

I have no pools.txt at all.
But address is changed.

Checked twice.

Could you send me your miner personally to make sure I don't use someshit?

Claymore, what about adopting this miner to other pools? xpmforall.org for example?

Ypool had built-in feature for devfee calculation for miner developers. Other pools have no such feature, so I'll have to change many things in the miner. May be I will do it in future, but not right now. You still can mine solo with my miner, currently XPM diff is pretty low.

Diff is low now, but it's going back sky high as ethereum price drops and xpm becomes better to mine. And it will be not long time for xpm mining

v13.2:

- Repacked to improve Windows 10 support.

is it support Polaris?

Please update your miner to support pool mining
thanks

Hello! I've mined Primecoins in 2011, and now can't find my old sadly   :'(

Are there still any pools to mine them? or is solo mining worth a try with a simple i5 2500k?

Thanks  :)

will this work with 10x GPU?

well this miner says im getting 11 CPD per each RX580 which is a good rate in comparison with xpmclient miner... but the real thing is im getting only 3 block a day while on xpmclient i get 4 - 5 block... so clearly there is something wrong between the CPD statics on claymore miner.

how to set the default target to 11?

Have a nice day! A coin is Primecoin and it is the Claymore miner but it only works with Ypool. This pool died. Could you unlock to work with any pool. Miner XPM_client-10.2.2-beta-win64 constantly knocks the cards. SOLO_Claymore XPM GPU Miner v13.2 Beta does not start ((((Hope only for you! (AMD RX 560)