Version 1.132 is published!

Includes the latest versions of Geth, Parity, Geth Classic and Gexp.

Also a bit of tidying up and better help messages.

Get it at our website! https://www.prominer.website

Thanks for trying it out and posting a review. I think Pro Miner's main advantage is that it just keeps on running with very little effort.

Also, it seems some people just prefer a Graphical User Interface and especially the ability to monitor your miner's performance over the past 7 days.

Thanks again for giving it a go - much appreciated 

Pro Miner version 1.126 released! Get it from our website here: https://www.prominer.website

Bug fixes for devices not being found and log windows not scrolling to the end. Thanks to the miner who helped work through these issues

Pro Miner has improved over time, thanks to miners reporting issues. It's become pretty good now - give it a try and help break Claymore's dominance!

Music Coin mining should work, as should any other Ethash-based coin, although with no dev fee, as the seeds, and hence the DAG, will not match.

As always, feedback and especially bug reports if Pro Miner isn't working for you, are welcomed either here or via the "Help & Support" page on the website.

Good luck mining!

Glad you like it!

I'll have a look at also supporting Music coin. Are there any other Ethash-based coins you'd like support for?


I not sure what you mean exactly. There's a small button in the bottom right corner of the log windows. If this is yellow, the logs auto-scroll to the latest entries. Manually scrolling back in time turns this behavior off and the button turns orange. Just click it to turn it back on again.

Hope this helps. If you have any other ideas or requests, please let me know.

Pro Miner version 1.122 released - get it on our website: https://www.prominer.website

Windows 7 now works - it would be great if a few people could test it out.

As always, it's great to get feedback, good or bad. You can post here or use the Help & Support page on the website to email me.

Good luck mining!

Thanks

If you have any problems, suggestions, or anything else, please use the contact form on our website to email me directly.

Pro Miner version 1.118 released!

Major improvements to the Control App. The home tab is now fully customizable, so you can monitor all your miners in one screen, just the way you want.

Unfortunately, there is a regression bug that means this version won't mine on Windows 7. I am working on this, and hope to have a fix soon. Windows 10 is fine.

Get it from our website: https://www.prominer.website

Good luck mining!

Pro Miner version 1.116 released - get it from our website: https://www.prominer.website

!!! All new CUDA kernel for native NVIDIA mining which should equal or better other miners !!!

Small tweaks and improvements for OpenCL AMD mining. There's not much room for improvement here - the Ethereum algorithm was designed to be memory-intensive ( which is why we can still mine it with GPUs! )

I know I have an uphill struggle to convince you guys, but as always, please compare Average hash rates, not Peak ones.

Average hash rates are directly proportional to your mining rewards. Peak hash rates ( even when reported accurately ) are largely just bragging rights! Pro Miner is optimized for maximum Average hash rates and so maximum mining rewards. We run exactly the same code in our mining farm.

Quite a few people are using Pro Miner now, so it's well tested - why don't you give it a go?

If you have any problems, you can contact me using the "Help & Support" page on the website and I'll try to help.

If you're using it and like it, please let us know that too!

Good luck mining!

I've done some basic tests to explore how "Local Work Size" and "Global Work Size Multiplier" affect hashrates on nVidia cards.

These tests are not nearly as comprehensive (yet) as the experiment I did for AMD cards, but I thought I'd share my preliminary results.

TLDR; a "Local Work Size" of 64 and a "Global Work Size Multiplier" of 16384 seem to yield the best Average Hashrate.

Increasing "Local Work Size" from 64 increases the Peak Hashrate, but decreases the Average Hashrate. Setting it to 32 results in a decrease for both Hashrates.

Increasing "Global Work Size Multiplier" from 16384 also increases the Peak Hashrate and decreases the Average Hashrate.

Decreasing "Global Work Size Multiplier" from 16384 decreases the Peak Hashrate and but has a mixed effect on Average Hashrate, depending on the "Local Work Size", but never matching the optimum settings above.

As with the results for AMD cards, optimizing for Peak Hashrates does not maximize mining returns, which depend on Average Hashrates.

If anyone else has run these tests, please share your results too!

I've been getting reports of under-performing hashrates using nVidia cards.

It seems they are very sensitive to the "Local Work Size" and "Global Work Size Multiplier" settings on the "Miner Advanced" tab in the Control App.

I'm running some tests for nVidia cards, similar to the ones I did for AMD cards a while back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/5t1i85/local_and_global_work_sizes

In the meantime, if you're using nVidia cards, please try different values for these 2 settings ( keep them as powers of 2 ) to see what works best for you.

And if you would like to share your results here, that would be great!

Good luck mining!

Pro Miner version 1.110 released on the website.

This version includes some small fixes and improved support for nVidia cards.

It seems a lot of new miners have nVidia cards, whereas most established miners have AMD cards.

This means support for nVidia is less well tested, so as always, if you have any problems, please use the contact form on the "Help & Support" page on the website.

https://www.prominer.website

Good luck mining!

Thanks! I mainly wrote this for my miners and it's done very well for me for over a year now. It makes running a farm very easy and I've put a lot of work into making it reliable.

It does what I want it to, but are there any features it doesn't have that you can't do without? Or is it just the dual mining?

Pro Miner version 1.108 released. !! Required Update !!

The next DAG, which comes at block 3,870,000, is over 2GB ( 2^31 ) This version of Pro Miner can handle it.

Also fixed a regression in version 1.104 which meant you couldn't change your GPU device selection ( oops - apologies for that! )

Good luck mining!

Pro Miner version 1.104 released.

It includes the latest node releases: Geth 1.6.5, Parity 1.6.7, Geth Classic 3.5.0 and Gexp 1.6.1.

The Control App has an improved configuration User Interface to help prevent frustrating configuration issues.

If you're trying Pro Miner for the first time, I suggest you use the "Pool Mining Configuration Wizard" to set the minimum configuration options to start mining.

As always, if you have any problems, just drop me a note using the "Help & Support" page on the website.

Good luck mining!

Thanks for your post.

You can use this thread, or the contact form on the Pro Miner website to email me directly.

There's also a You Tube channel with short ( 10 minute ) videos showing how to configure and run Pro Miner.

See the first post on this thread for details.


Pro Miner uses OpenCL and supports both AMD and NVidia GPUs.

I run various AMD GPUs, starting from 390s up to 480s, but anything with enough RAM should work.

If you have any problems with your specific cards, you can use the contact form on the website and I'll try to help!

You'll have to test to find the best drivers, and it will depend on the GPUs you have.


Pro Miner uses Stratum to communicate with pools.

I've tested Dwarfpool, EtherMine and Alpereum and there's a Quick Start Wizard you can use to quickly configure Pro Miner for those pools.

Other pools should work - again please let me know if you find one that doesn't work.


You're welcome

Pro Miner v1.102 released

Ethereum Classic and Expanse are profitable at the moment. Just to remind you that you can mine them both with Pro Miner, as well as Ethereum itself.

Pro Miner also includes the latest versions of Geth, Parity, Geth Classic and Gexp, so you can solo mine too.

And as always, you get a proper Windows Graphical User Interface that can Monitor and Control all your mining rigs from one place.

Good luck mining!

Pro Miner v1.100 released - now on version 100!

This release includes the latest versions of the nodes, including Geth v1.6.1, and minor bug fixes and improvements.

As always, feedback and/or new feature requests are welcome

@Eyedol-X - I just tried running Pro Miner from the command line and, yes, it works fine. You don't need any command line parameters, just configure and monitor it from the Control App as usual. HTH.

No plans to at the moment. Mining Ethereum, Ethereum Classic or Expanse is currently too profitable by themselves.

I haven't tried running a, for example, Decred miner at the same time as Pro Miner - I'd be interested in the result if anyone tries it.

Please see my reply to @drrobert above - you can use Afterburner to apply overclocking without logging in ( it's what I do )

To answer your question: ProMiner.exe ( which is the Windows Service executable ) is also a Windows Console App. So, yes, you should be able to run it from the command line, although I haven't tested this for a long time.