Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)

[Vann]

Hello all,

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've built a third mining machine using Windows 10, and currently it has one RX 580 8GB card an an old 7970 3GB card in it. I've installed the latest AMD 17.4.4 drivers, and I copied over my setup from my previous miner including, Claymore miner 9.5 and my batch file from my other miner.

When I run the claymore miner it seems to run OK but I never get the purple line telling me the GPU temperature/fan speed! What am I missing? I don't remember ever having to turn that on before, and I'm using the same batch script I use on my other miner which DOES print out the GPU temperature/fan speed. I copied over the entire folder where I keep the miner and it's config files, and my batch files, etc. so I'm very confused.

Also does anyone know what decred intensity is a good starting point for an RX 580? Thanks!

You need to plug in a monitor or dummy plug for the driver to be able to read and set the temperature and fan speeds. I use -ethi 8 and -dcri 26 dual mining.

Thank you! So I'm assuming this is an AMD thing then, yes? Because my Nvidia based rig doesn't have a dummy plug but still prints out the GPU temp/fan speed.

Yes, the monitor is required for the AMD drivers. Also a correction, with the latest epoch I get better ETH hash with -dcri 25.

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[CrayjeksAjek]

Does anyone have better performance on old version of AMD drivers than the latest ones? Or is that a thing of the past?

Did you set radeon settings to performance rather than balanced? Balanced setting will screw with multiple cards. Did you lower intensity in crimson? Not all cards are made the same, even if its the same card. Also, did you purchase new from store or used? Someone could have modded the bios and thats why you read them differently at "stock" settings

[zanmat0]

Does anyone have better performance on old version of AMD drivers than the latest ones? Or is that a thing of the past?

Did you set radeon settings to performance rather than balanced? Balanced setting will screw with multiple cards. Did you lower intensity in crimson? Not all cards are made the same, even if its the same card. Also, did you purchase new from store or used? Someone could have modded the bios and thats why you read them differently at "stock" settings

Actually I uninstalled all those settings and only the driver remains... Maybe I should do a clean reinstall. Do most people just install drivers or the whole package with Wattool, Settings, etc...? All of my cards are new.

[CrayjeksAjek]

Does anyone have better performance on old version of AMD drivers than the latest ones? Or is that a thing of the past?

Did you set radeon settings to performance rather than balanced? Balanced setting will screw with multiple cards. Did you lower intensity in crimson? Not all cards are made the same, even if its the same card. Also, did you purchase new from store or used? Someone could have modded the bios and thats why you read them differently at "stock" settings

Actually I uninstalled all those settings and only the driver remains... Maybe I should do a clean reinstall. Do most people just install drivers or the whole package with Wattool, Settings, etc...? All of my cards are new.

Do a clean uninstall with ddu, reinstall latest crimson. You dont need ReLive part of crimson install. Once its done and restarted, Right click the little crimson tray icon to make sure its set to performance. You could flash your bios, not sure what settings you want with your cards (make sure you save original bios rom though) or just try to lower intensity on core clock and up memory clock with wattman.

[zanmat0]

Does anyone have better performance on old version of AMD drivers than the latest ones? Or is that a thing of the past?

Did you set radeon settings to performance rather than balanced? Balanced setting will screw with multiple cards. Did you lower intensity in crimson? Not all cards are made the same, even if its the same card. Also, did you purchase new from store or used? Someone could have modded the bios and thats why you read them differently at "stock" settings

Actually I uninstalled all those settings and only the driver remains... Maybe I should do a clean reinstall. Do most people just install drivers or the whole package with Wattool, Settings, etc...? All of my cards are new.

Do a clean uninstall with ddu, reinstall latest crimson. You dont need ReLive part of crimson install. Once its done and restarted, Right click the little crimson tray icon to make sure its set to performance. You could flash your bios, not sure what settings you want with your cards (make sure you save original bios rom though) or just try to lower intensity on core clock and up memory clock with wattman.

OK thanks I will try that.

You recommend Wattman to manage o/c?
And do I need to run Pixel Clock Patcher?

[jakel2069]

for some reason i can not daul mine no matter what coin or pool i put for the 2nd coin i get no hash rate and job timeout but the eth side works fine?


GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0

GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100

GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100



EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1.nanopool.org:9999 -ewal  -epsw x -dpool stratum+tcp://sia-eu1.nanopool.org:7777 -dwal  -dcoin sia

[TechPark]

Using MSI Afterburner, AMD Wattman, whatever I try, as soon as I apply the new settings they go right back to the previous ones. My -cclock and -mclock parameters in Claymore are having no effect on anything. The weird thing is I have 2 of the exact same card (MSI RX 570 4G) and their settings are different (2000mhz vs 2150mhz memory clock) ... what could have caused this?

How can I regain control over my cards? I have one that is constantly getting incorrect shares so I need to underclock it a bit and I have two or three that could be pushed a little higher.

I've already uninstalled AMD settings so for now it appears Wattman is out of the picture.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

I've had this issue. Using Claymore's to set the clocks is unstable and inconsistent at best. What solved it was removing the -cclock and -mclock parameters from Clayamore, uninstalling Afterburner, reinstalling it and only using Afterburner to undervolt and set the core and memory clocks.

I use WattTool with profiles and then call those profiles in the batch file.

I do not think WattTool works correctly with 570/580 series. Correct me if I am wrong.

[TechPark]

Can someone please please help me i am desperate!

Im mining with a 66 mhash rig on ETC. but i wanted to try the script normally used for this:

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

After using these commands 1 of my cards went from 22 mhash to 4 mhash?!?!

i normally didn't use these command and just run with the single line: EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal <Your_Ethereum_Address>.<RigName> -epsw x

I have Logs which also have timestamps when it was good and when it changed after the Setx..

I notice that the DAG creation time for the wrong card takes 3 times as long as the other cards, other cards do 5000-5300ms and the wrong card now takes 15000-16000ms

PLEASE HELP ME! to get the card back at 22 Mhash, would really appreciate this.

Logs:
https://justpaste.it/189bk
https://justpaste.it/189bm

EDIT: i have 3x RX 470 4GB cards, is there a way to revert these commands?

How did you use those commands? You meant to write them into bat file, to undo that you just delete it or you the previous version of bat file.
Your assumption that hash rate is affected by SETX is probably wrong. You changed something else at the same time. Probably just rebooted the rig. 
Are you controlling the rig remotely? Is the monitor connected to one of the RX470 GPUs? If not you need to connect it or use an emulator.

SETX writes it in registry permanently, so to revert you have to go to registry.
Instead ,  SET ...  writes it just for that instance so it can be reverted.
 

You do not need to go to the registry. Variables can be edited in Control Panel>System>Advanced>Environment Variables>Select>Delete

[TechPark]

Hello all,

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've built a third mining machine using Windows 10, and currently it has one RX 580 8GB card an an old 7970 3GB card in it. I've installed the latest AMD 17.4.4 drivers, and I copied over my setup from my previous miner including, Claymore miner 9.5 and my batch file from my other miner.

When I run the claymore miner it seems to run OK but I never get the purple line telling me the GPU temperature/fan speed! What am I missing? I don't remember ever having to turn that on before, and I'm using the same batch script I use on my other miner which DOES print out the GPU temperature/fan speed. I copied over the entire folder where I keep the miner and it's config files, and my batch files, etc. so I'm very confused.

Also does anyone know what decred intensity is a good starting point for an RX 580? Thanks!

- Monitor or emulator must be connected to the AMD GPU
- do not use Microsoft Remote Connection app - use Teamviewer or VNC instead
- disabled crossfire

[TechPark]

Using MSI Afterburner, AMD Wattman, whatever I try, as soon as I apply the new settings they go right back to the previous ones. My -cclock and -mclock parameters in Claymore are having no effect on anything. The weird thing is I have 2 of the exact same card (MSI RX 570 4G) and their settings are different (2000mhz vs 2150mhz memory clock) ... what could have caused this?

How can I regain control over my cards? I have one that is constantly getting incorrect shares so I need to underclock it a bit and I have two or three that could be pushed a little higher.

I've already uninstalled AMD settings so for now it appears Wattman is out of the picture.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

If you eliminated an effect caused by software settings by using DDU, uninstalling MSI AB and AMD drivers then those settings most likely hard-coded in cards BIOS. Do you have a switch for dual BIOS. Change  the position, restart the rig and check by GPU-Z. You can modify or re-flash the BIOS from one card to another.

Yes, but those two cards are both using stock BIOS! I just don't understand how one runs at 2000Mhz and one at 2150Mhz no matter what I do with Claymore parameters, Wattool, Afterburner, etc... I basically have no control over the clock speeds of my cards... unless GPU-Z is reporting incorrect information of course...

Did you switch to the second BIOS option? Does GPU-Z show incorrect memory frequency in both windows? Download BIOSes from both cards and open in PE to see the differences.

[TechPark]

Does anyone have better performance on old version of AMD drivers than the latest ones? Or is that a thing of the past?

It is very hard to tell. You might get a faster hashrate displayed but less shares submitted to the pool therefor less effective hashrate. Same with older versions of Claymore Miner. I conducted a serious of experiments but gave up at the end as all that downtime is not be compensated. I stick to the latest versions of everything.

[preda]

Hi guys, i started to mine with 4 workers but why if my hashrate is 430 the orange line still continue to be in 350 mh? What's the problem?
I have to wait 24 hours?

[delle54]

Hi guys, i started to mine with 4 workers but why if my hashrate is 430 the orange line still continue to be in 350 mh? What's the problem?
I have to wait 24 hours?

What don't you understand about the word "average"?

[matmator]

Hello everyone ,

Have you heard the bad news?

http://1stminingrig.com/amd-radeon-rx-400-rx-500-will-be-no-longer-profitable-for-ethereum-mining/

@claymore

Can you do anything to avoid losing hashrate?

In 1 month the hashrate will start to fall ..... sniff

[preda]

Hi guys, i started to mine with 4 workers but why if my hashrate is 430 the orange line still continue to be in 350 mh? What's the problem?
I have to wait 24 hours?

What don't you understand about the word "average"?

With 3 workers my average was 360... with 4 workers now is 340... how i could understand this?

[orbital_station1]

MSI R9 390X
connected directly on pcie 16 slot, undeclocked, overvolted. Only below 1000 MHz (1080 stock) and over +35 mV i get any kind of stability (hour or two)

Keep getting GPU 1 hangs in OpenCL call error.
Windows says "Default Radeon WattMan settings have been restored due to unexpected system failure".

Current drivers 17.1.1, this hapened with 15.12 too.

Furmark QHD + 4x MSAA crashes when reaches around 40% of the test.


Is this card candidate for rma?
Anyone had anything similar happen?

Rest of the rig works fine no matter the driver version.

Need help.

[adaseb]

Hello everyone ,

Have you heard the bad news?

http://1stminingrig.com/amd-radeon-rx-400-rx-500-will-be-no-longer-profitable-for-ethereum-mining/

@claymore

Can you do anything to avoid losing hashrate?

In 1 month the hashrate will start to fall ..... sniff

Pretty sure most people don't care about losing 0.5% hash speed every 5 days since we already lost half our profits from last week.

[Branko]

New version coming soon?

Impatient RX 560 user here (hope that announced RX 460 ASM support
means it will work for RX 560 too)

[Andrey123]

Worth the version 9.4
Now I checked the farm through Teamviewer, the three cards were disconnected, the coin Decree did not dig.
And the hashed jumps strongly.

Restarted the miner, everything stabilized.
What could it be?

[Claymore]

New version coming soon?

Impatient RX 560 user here (hope that announced RX 460 ASM support
means it will work for RX 560 too)

Check my recent message about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=306958;sa=showPosts
I ordered another card and will add ASM for it soon, but not in upcoming version which will be available in a few hours.