Yeah, Wolf has a theory that AMD isn't actually as bad (power-efficiency-wise) compared to NVIDIA as we think.   

Not sure where you're getting the idea that the MinerControl thread just complains about ccMiner.  Aside from a single comment about the GIThub repository, almost all comments in that thread about ccMiner (and everyone involved in it) have been praise, and encouraging donations.  Also, I believe the creator did indeed announce in this thread what he was making, and what it was supposed to do, when he released the very first alpha version of it (started out called "NiceHash Control").
In short, Miner Control allows people to use ccMiner (or nvMiner, or any other derivative) to automatically switch pools & algorithms, based on profitability.  It was initially built specifically for ccMiner and NVIDIA GPU's, because there was not yet any support for such auto-switching with NVIDIA GPU's, and at first only supported NiceHash (now supports several pools, and can be used with other mining apps).  It simply checks various pool API's, and starts the miner (ccMiner, or whatever mining app the user wishes) pointed at the most profitable pool/algorithm.  It continues to check API's, and if another pool/algorithm becomes more profitable than the one currently being mined, then it will shut down the current miner, and start it again pointed at the new pool/algorithm.

Make sure ccMiner is working by itself first, before trying to work it with MinerControl.  Use a .BAT file to launch it with your chosen parameters, and add a PAUSE line to the end, so if it crashes you can read the output before the window disappears.  That should give you a good clue about what may be wrong.
Also read the help text (use --help or -h) so you know what all the arguments do.

ccMiner is not optimized for the 900-series yet.
They're working on it.

Why the hell is anyone still bothering with this coin?  Wallet doesn't work, dev is gone, and coin was clearly a scam.  There are/were no new innovations, coin has no legitimate value whatsoever.  Seriously, stop wasting your time (and money) on this coin.
It's a scam.  Always was, right from the start.

Yeah, that would be the most efficient way to manage it.   

I'm surprised that anyone using ccMiner doesn't check the main CUDAmining thread on this forum, or their website for the latest releases.

Actually, djm's latest version of ccMiner has all the same optimizations as nvMiner, plus a slightly better averaging of your hashrate, and includes optimization for the M7 algorithm (which nvMiner doesn't support at all).  If you want a "one-miner-fits-all" that still has all the speed of previous versions, then djm's M7 version of ccMiner is the way to go.  Look through their thread to find it, unless djm has finally gotten around to uploading it to the CUDAmining website.
And of course, once you start to get some income from your mining efforts, be sure to send a few coins their way.  After all, you wouldn't be mining anything of value if it weren't for them writing the software you're using!  (same goes for StuffOfInterest…keep the donation mining turned on, so he gets rewarded for his work too)

EDIT:  Yes, his M7 version is there, called m7v7, right at the top of the ccMiner list.  That's the version I would recommend!

Yeah, I haven't had a chance to look over the code yet.   Rest assured I will take a look, and submit any ideas/changes I come up with…and I'm sure the code's not as big a mess as you made it out to be before.   lol

To dddbtc:  Regardless of whether it will work well with ASIC miners (which it should), that pool still seems like a terrible pool.  No API makes it hard to work with, and the 5% fee is rather high.  Most pools charge 2% on average, and virtually all of the included pools already support Scrypt.  Suggest a better pool and I'm sure he'll be happy to add it.

Send me some too, and I'll be happy to test. 

lol, sums up my thoughts exactly   

Random question, but since a lot of people here seem to like XCN I figured it may be applicable.
Does anyone else have problems with their XCN wallet.dat file constantly getting corrupted?  I've had to restore mine at least five times now.  

As I recall, a few months ago they "ran out" of profitable X13 coins to mine.  Not sure why they haven't found replacements by now, but they did shut down the X13 pool until profitable coins are found again.
(I repeat, other pools still have profitable X13 coins/pools, so I don't know why WafflePool doesn't)

I may be mistaken, but it looks like there's a slight communication error here.  Coin-switching isn't a problem, as CoinKing multiports already handle that, and users can even set up custom multiports, to mine specific coins.  (Miner Control doesn't bother with specific coins, and is built for multipools)  The reason we want Miner Control to support CoinKing, is that Miner Control handles automatic algorithm-switching, based on the most profitable pool/algorithm.  There is currently no way to automatically switch algorithms with CoinKing, so Miner Control could solve that, once CoinKing upgrades the API requirements.  The only thing needed, API-wise, is simply a real-time profitability statistic, per algorithm, normalized to BTC values.  CoinKing could just report the profitability of the default multiports for each algorithm, assuming automatic conversion to BTC (of course each user could set up the autoconversion to whatever they want, but for profitability calculation the API can assume conversion to BTC).
I hope this clears up any confusion.   

Great!  Nice to see you working together on this.   I look forward to the results! 

I also just noticed that CoinKing is finally responding to your API requests.  And, Miner Control is getting attention in the ccMiner / CUDAmining thread as well.  This excellent tool and your hard work is being recognized!   

I agree.  Though even with no weight adjustment, WafflePool hasn't risen to my top at all since it was added.

Awesome!  I have some tests and important papers to write for my classes right now, but I'll be sure to examine your code in the next week or two, and submit some feature suggestions for your appraisal.  Keep up the great work!   

PS:  Nice to see WafflePool added, despite their lack of a real-time API.  I wish CoinKing was more willing to work with you on their APIs.   

It's sporadic.  I use a tool called Miner Control which pulls real-time API data to calculate profitability (also using your own hashrates and power usage/cost), and my GPUs are (currently) all Kepler so not as power-efficient as the 750Ti (or the new 900 series), yet the net profitability still goes into the positive values now & again even with my power-hungry monsters.  I imagine with more efficient GPUs, it can still be decently profitable, though maybe not what everyone was used to from back in the "glory days" of GPU mining.

Yeah, I've been using that tool since it was still called NiceHash Control (evolved into MinerControl when the dev added more pools).  I love it, and have been helping out the dev with bug-hunting and suggestions.  I still have the Scrypt algos included, but it rarely ever switches to them (because they are usually so unprofitable for GPU mining these days).  I also customized mine with a manual "pool", which is actually just a fallback in case none of the pools are profitable (for my electricity costs), in which it mines X11 at a multipool called CoinKing.  With this, I also removed the X11 algo from all other pools, since I like DarkCoin, and have configured my CoinKing account to auto-convert everything to DarkCoin.   

I'm also trying to work with both the CoinKing operator, and the MinerControl dev, to see if we can get CoinKing supported by MinerControl (needs a real-time API, which CoinKing does not yet have).