Unfortunately it's not that easy - the GUI has to understand what the miner is saying, so I have to actually write code for each miner used. It's not possible to just automatically have any miner work. plz, instead of "Extra Flags" can u make a "Full flags" including the executable, so we can use any minner, not just poclbm, like phoenix one, thanks...
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Are you using a value with -s? You need to give the sleep time as well, something like -s0.01 which would mean to sleep for 0.01 seconds between runs. On my GPU that amount of sleep cuts the hash rate roughly in half, you can experiment to find the balance between temperature. If you are giving the sleep time already and it's still not working, let me know and I'll investigate further  Also, it is possible to have a backup pool using the -f flag. See the FAQ in first post. Hey kiv,
Nice update but i cant get -s to work. Says its starting but never does.
Here are some features that would be nice:
Detect if mouse is being used and switch to -f100 and then back to -f0 if mouse and keyboard are inactive or a movie is playing ?
Able to put backup pool if first one is offline ?
Thanks.
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Looks like something weird happened to your miner settings, if you clear them it should work. 1) Go Start -> Run and type in the box %APPDATA%\poclbm 2) This should open a folder with a file called poclbm.ini inside. If you could send me that file it would help me figure out what went wrong. If you delete that file it will get rid of your miner settings and you should be able to start fresh. 3) Try restarting the miner now. Hey Kiv
I'm getting an error when I try and launch the GUIminer
and it informs me to view the guiminer.exe.log
and this is what is in the log:
ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "guiminer.py", line 1995, in run
File "guiminer.py", line 1429, in __init__
File "guiminer.py", line 1660, in parse_config
File "json\__init__.pyo", line 267, in load
File "json\__init__.pyo", line 307, in loads
File "json\decoder.pyo", line 319, in decode
File "json\decoder.pyo", line 338, in raw_decode
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "guiminer.py", line 2005, in <module>
File "guiminer.py", line 1995, in run
File "guiminer.py", line 1429, in __init__
File "guiminer.py", line 1660, in parse_config
File "json\__init__.pyo", line 267, in load
File "json\__init__.pyo", line 307, in loads
File "json\decoder.pyo", line 319, in decode
File "json\decoder.pyo", line 338, in raw_decode
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
I just changed my hardware from a 460GTX to a 6950, I've already updated/uninstalled the nvidia/ATI drivers, installed ATI 11.5 and SDK 2.4
I've resetted and uninstalled/installed the drivers many times and have yet to get this error fixed....
I can load up the non-gui style to mine but not your version after the hardware changed, the guiminer worked fine with the 460gtx
Thanks in advanced
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A new version of the miner is available; I've updated the download link on the first post, or you can get it here: guiminer-20110521.exe (self-extracting archive)Remember, if you're making money with this miner you should send me even 0.1 Bitcoin. The previous release got over 12,000 downloads and my total donations over that period were under 9 BTC, so I know you guys can do better Changes: - Add BTC Guild mining pool to the list of presets. - Add -s flag to poclbm that can reduce temperatures by forcing the GPU to sleep. Thanks to llanwj for coding this. - Add Spanish language support. Thanks to BitcoinsWallet for contributing this. - Add checkbox to disable warning about OpenCL not being installed. - Reset count of shares accepted/stale on change of server. - If balance API token is rejected by the server, prompt user to enter a new token. - Fix issue where the About dialog would be cut off. - Console logs now include a timestamp on all messages. |
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Hmm... are you trying to mine solo or in a pool? If solo, your Bitcoin client might not be configured properly. If a pool, you might have the wrong username or password. Also, try opening the Console tab and then starting the miner to see if any interesting messages appear. Hey, haven't read through all 23 pages, but is there a known issue with being stuck as perpetually "connecting..."? just doing CPU mining (sadly no OpenCL GPU here...) and it's just perpetually stuck "Connecting...".
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That's rather strange - you don't need Python installed to run the miner because the interpreter is already bundled with the exe (using the py2exe module). There's currently no way to suppress the warning, but that's something I could easily add in the next release. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong...
I download the latest version of the self-extractive archive, uncompress it to c:\guiminer and run guiminer.exe and get the following error:
"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."
I read the README and glanced at the first post... What am I doing wrong?
BTW, the error is because I didn't have Python 3.2 installed on the PC's..... Just FYI Another question... is there a way to execute without getting the OpenCL warning box everytime? |
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Are you overclocking your 5870? It is possible to add the setting you want, but better is to fix the error so you don't have to restart it all the time Kiv I have a request... If it is possible... My 5870 stops to mine every 1-2 hours (some hardware failure msg) and all I have to do is to manually click stop/start mining. Is it possible that miner do it for me, to make an option stop/start mining every x minutes or something??? I think that it will be useful for the others, too. Because some of my friends have the similar issue, miner stops to mine (not so often as mine but every 24-48 hours). And all we have to do is manually click stop/start mining! Imagine how big problem it can be if it stops to mine during the night or if we are far away from our precious gold diggers Thanks in advance! Edit: The message is "VERIFICATION FAILED, CHECK HARDWARE!" |
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1000 (150) means 1000 shares were accepted total, including 150 in the past hour. It just gives you another measure of how fast you are mining. I've added this question to the FAQ. what does number in () mean under accepted?eom
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Something is off with your setup. Other people have had this issue too and I'm not sure if it was resolved, but you can search the forums or check the FAQ in the first post for a link to more info on it. I've been wondering..
I'm running two cards and my CPU is at constant 50% load, eg 1 GPU takes 25% CPU - does anyone know is this normal behavior for GUI miner?
I am only on one card, but: Task manager poclbm(the actual client) is using < 2% CPU and guiminer is literally using 0-1%. It should be pure GPU unless you chose another mode I guess ors omething is wrong. I have 2 poclbm each running at 25%. System runs very stable but not sure why it eats at cpu. |
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Sure, I can add BTCGuild. As mentioned you can run it manually using the "Other" option or by editing your server.ini, but it's no trouble to include it automatically in the next release. The poclbm page/wiki/readmes are essentially what you want for the flags, as GUIminer is just a GUI to poclbm. As for adding BTCGuild, it's literally a handful of lines in the server.ini or just using the "other" option and plopping in the BTCGuild hostname(port seems the same, i.e. 8332). That should pretty much be it, although I have no idea if that "long polling" stuff is an issue or not. |
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Assuming you're using an ATI card and OpenCL, you can specify -f60 or -f120 in the flags in order to reduce the miner's priority. A higher f value means a lower priority. Hi,
I was just wondering what the throtling is on this miner. I want to know because I would like to mine while playing shogun 2, as it is cpu limited not gpu so I have many wasted cycles as the gpu waits. So, is this by default setup to throttle or can I force it in some way?
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I would have to edit a fair bit of code since Ufasoft's miner communicates differently than the other two. Right not it's not a priority for me since I don't think there's any future in CPU mining. The way difficulty is going, CPU mining will shortly only be useful for educational purposes. There are two ways you would see Ufasoft miner support: either someone does the coding and submits a patch to me, or I receive enough bounty for it to be worth my while. Hmm, any idea how hard it would be to add support to Ufasoft's miner, as an option for CPU mining? Maybe for a future release, as I usually get much greater performance with it compared to puddinpop's rpcminer-cpu, and hopefully others do too. |
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When i've decided to switch to a different server, can you please make it so the shares from the other server get reset? I mean i connect to another server and the guiminer still counts the shares from the other server.
Sure, this will be an easy change. And can you please add the new pools that appeared?
Which pools specifically do you want to see? And do they work already with the miner if you pick "Other" as a server and enter their host URL? If you like, try editing your servers.ini file in your GUIMiner main directory and add a new entry for the server you want. |
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I have it working on Linux, but it's not packaged in any nice way and I'm not sure if it'll be easy enough for you to get it going. If you'd like to be a guinea pig and try to get it working for you, you can grab the source code from the GitHub page and try to run that. I assume you're running an ATI graphics card using OpenCL, so you'll need to install PyOpenCL to get the source to work. I can help you with problems as they arise. Can someone please tell me if there is a linux version of this yet? I'm just getting linuxcoin going on my new rig but I'm a total linux noob and could use a simpler interface (prefer not to us windows on my rig if I can help it).
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There's no APPDATA environment variable defined as there would be in normal Windows. Guiminer uses that variable to find a folder to store its settings. You should set it manually to be any location where you don't mind having an .ini file kept. Even the GUIMiner folder itself should work... I cant get guiminer to work under winpe enviroment... drivers installed and working, opencl installed and working, GPU-Z confirms, Ufasoft miner detect the vga cards and use them, but both guiminer gives me a error, any lead what is missing? ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "guiminer.py", line 1909, in run
File "guiminer.py", line 1432, in __init__
File "guiminer.py", line 1579, in load_config
File "guiminer.py", line 1516, in get_storage_location
File "os.pyo", line 423, in __getitem__
KeyError: 'APPDATA'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "guiminer.py", line 1919, in <module>
File "guiminer.py", line 1909, in run
File "guiminer.py", line 1432, in __init__
File "guiminer.py", line 1579, in load_config
File "guiminer.py", line 1516, in get_storage_location
File "os.pyo", line 423, in __getitem__
KeyError: 'APPDATA'
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GUIMiner author here, good to see the miner is working for you.
I run two miners on the same GPU so if one pool goes down the other will pick up the slack. By adjusting the -f flag value you can control which one is the "primary" and which is the "backup". I have my primary as -f40 and my backup as -f60. In general a higher f value is a lower priority.
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My guess is that the ATI card doesn't support CUDA and you don't have OpenCL installed. You'll probably have to install OpenCL to mine on an ATI card. I'm having some issues. I was mining with a 560 Ti using the CUDA miner. I added a ATI 5750 and it wouldn't show. I can't get the miner to show the 5750. Any ideas?
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I haven't heard of this issue before. There's no particular reason for any GPU to behave differently than the others. A bit more detail might help me or other posters figure it out. What cards are you running? What pool and what settings? Are you using OpenCL or CUDA? I have a problem with GUI miner on one of my dedicated rigs
I have four identical cards running, all with identical settings
GPU1 and GPU2 are having connection problems intermittently while GPU3 and 4 are solid.
What would cause this?
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I overlooked that use case - it will prompt for a token if you haven't entered one, but if your token changed somehow, it won't know to prompt again. I should probably change it either so it prompts again whenever you get a 403, or have a dialog where you can view all your tokens. am i the only one with this problem or is retrieving balance for the deepbit pool broken or blocked or something? just kicks a 403 forbidden error when i try it, but mining is working fine.
nevermind, seems my API token changed somehow.
where in the GUI do you enter the API token? i couldn't find anything and needed to go edit the config file.
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Glad you got it working For future reference, all guiminer application state is stored in .ini files either in the miner directory or in %APPDATA%\Roaming\poclbm. I don't like the registry so I didn't use any registry keys *Sigh* It's always after you type something up and serialize your thoughts that you think of *one more* thing to try.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Catalyst and everything is peachy.
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