Well then you have a problem. Keep in mind that vanitygen was made by enthusiasts for the bitcoin community and is not a paid-for program or product, so you should not expect an easy to use push-bhutan-get-results kind of program.

Even though it runs on the command line the software is actually very impressive and well designed, once you get past the learning curve.

Does BF3 really need 13.8 ? 12.8 is 'old' but probably not too much older than the game. I'd be surprised if it doesn't play or if there is a huge performance hit. I have been playing bioshock infinite and a few others on 12.8 no problems..

I might suggest you consider creating a dual-booting system or install a second OS on another storage device / partition so that you can boot to it and run vanity gen.

It is probably possible to run oclvanitygen on a virtual machine however unless you are extremely familiar with enterprise-level VMware implementations or have an IT degree then you will probably struggle to get that working. Seriously, installing an OS to a spare IDE / SATA hard drive is a much faster option for 99.99% of people in this specific situation...

They are devices that windows knows existed at some point in time but are not presently in the system or at least in the same configuration it has been previously. They can accumulate especially if you are swapping card types around and moving PCI slot positions. In Atiman Uninstaller it refers to them as 'ghosts' in the first texts the program displays, although, I have found it will remove them anyway, I guess its best to follow their advice and do it manually. They can also accumulate during driver changes if you use the regular AMD install/uninstaller.

I have it in my list of installed programs as "AMD Catalyst Install Manager".

Atiman Uninstaller uses a huge range of scripts and operations to remove all kinds of different things. No doubt you will be impressed/amused at how much stuff it does. It is VERY different from any uninstallation you might've seen for a normal program...

Months ago I paid 1 BTC each for 2 miners and 1 BTC in shipping to my country (I live in a technological wasteland called Australia), my miners are so far from ROI I can't express it in words.

Random tip if you have more than one machine and if your client wont sync. Just use


And it will begin to sync within a few seconds. Port not required in my experience..

THE LLVM is almost entirely due to wrong driver version / files. It was my problem and many other peoples from the previous pages (I went through them all...)

To begin with, just check by trying:

oclvanitygen -D 0:0 -k -o found.txt 111111

and

oclvanitygen -D 0:1 -k -o found.txt 111111

If it fails, uninstall the ATi/AMD driver, then show hidden devices in device manager and if any hidden display devices are revealed, delete them. Then download and run Atiman Uninstaller to remove any leftovers.

Then reinstall 12.8 driver which most people find works. http://www.filehippo.com/download_ati_catalyst_vista_64/13064/ which is for vista, W7 and possibly W8 64-bit.

Primecoin is blocked because they want to stop old grandmas accidentally downloading it and melting their dust-caked CPU?

http://192.241.170.170/

Actually, the difficulty is CLEARLY stable at the moment. It has increased <5% over diff 9 in the last two weeks.

The optimizations made in HP10 may or may not increase block rate and hence the network may increase the difficulty, although HP10 has been out for a while now and the diff has barely budged, so it's not looking like we'll see an increase.

Unlikely, they are too inefficient. I suppose maybe if people have free power. I can barely sell anything on eBay which has a P4 in it or the Xeon-equivalent models.

Thanks for the update!

Those look like various IBM redundant PSU. At least 1460 watts, I'd say. FYI you can get 2000 watt bladecenter PSU on ebay pretty cheap! ($60 or less).

ReCat uses Agitate The Masses, it's super effective! 

Yep I have been doing this with desktops, because they're quieter and often more efficient. That being said I have a quater of a tonne of servers sitting next to me..

Still the difficulty is stable the last few days.

I wonder how long until someone kills a BE because they don't know about disconnecting bench PSU outputs before turning it on.

Even sitting a AC powered fan against flammable materials is a bad idea. Just ask any fire fighter.

I do some dodgy stuff, but that just looks a fire hazard.

Appending text to the debug log uses nil system resources. Don't worry about it.

Then you would have people with zero electronics experience or understanding purchasing them, setting them to the fastest configuration and cooking it within minutes/hours/days etc. Then AM and its resellers would have to deal with people claiming their products were sold as faulty and depending on how they paid for it they would attempt chargebacks.

Sounds like you are well set up. Can you elaborate on the temperature monitoring systems you've set up, they sound relevant to my interests. Perhaps RPi based?

Create a shortcut to the .exe or make a new shortcut, with the target field as follows:


Edit folder location as necessary.

This will launch the process with a low priority to allow your computer to run other things with their normal (default) priority without competing  for CPU with primecoin.

The -gen sets it to begin mining without needing to go into the clients console.

You could just as easily make this into a .bat if that's more appealing.

You can also add this shortcut/.bat to your windows startup folder to easily make it start with windows.

A change of 2% over the integer 9 difficulty is barely worth mentioning. I find it hard to believe you can really consider it a significant change.

Turning your servers off is an entirely anecdotal example. Also as it is unlikely you have access to such hardware for free, I am going to assume you splurged on VPS for a few days at most. In the other thread they are discussing VPS hosting for $5-20/month for 1 chain/day being 'reasonable' so having 90 seems a bit extraordinary.

There are thousands and thousands of VPS servers running primecoin right now. Why? They take nil effort to set up. All considerations of running them are moved off site and lumped into a simple daily/weekly/monthly fee. People will take advantage of any such situation even if the profit margins are small. Then you have the casual people mining on their gaming rigs at home on i5's and i7's etc. Your servers are just some of thousands of the thousands of CPUs mining so its not surprising there was no change in difficulty.

Five weeks ago one person such as yourself may have been significant on the network, when the difficulty was <9.00, but now primecoin is well known amongst altcoin miners. The secret is out. I would think over 250 pages on this forum alone related to primecoin topics would've indicated that clearly. This coin remains highly profitable to anyone with enough good CPUs available or who can spend some time working out the best options for VPS servers. Although I was never heavily invested in mining any other types of coins, and I do have some GPU and ASIC, they remain pathetic compared to the profits seen from primecoin. I feel like primecoin is a profit void, waiting to be filled. I think it has a long way to go yet.

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mcxnow trollbox GPU miner story? Seriously?