Yes, 17 years sounds great.

I've had better luck getting to the clGetDeviceIDs error on Wolf's miner, but with Claymore I get the error "Missing command line options!" before it automatically closes.

I cannot get the miner to work. It pulls the error: Error -1 when calling clGetDeviceIDs for number of devices.

I have an AMD r9 290 running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I can't find any solution searching about. The closest relevant thing I saw suggested I cannot use the HDMI port on my GPU to connect to my monitor?

My full specs are:
OS:   Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version:   6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
System Model:   B85M-DS3H-A
System Type:   x64-based PC
Processor:   Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460  CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
GPU: AMD r9 290 Sapphire Tri-X
BIOS Version/Date:   American Megatrends Inc. F1, 1/19/2015
SMBIOS Version:   2.7
Hardware Abstraction Layer   Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM):   8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory:   7.90 GB
Available Physical Memory:   5.79 GB
Total Virtual Memory:   15.8 GB
Available Virtual Memory:   12.8 GB