Hello guys. I was refusing to register for long 6 months.
I think now its time. So lets start with miner.
It is excelent program, with always new features and bug fixes.
I was mining since Sept2017 with rx480nitroOC, bought 2 vegas in November and finished my project in January with 12vegas on Biostar tb250btc PRO.
What started as stable and happy mining turned into nightmare. Before Christmas i had 6 referent vegas(4liquid) and using wattman gave me stability of over a week 24/7 with 1200w usage on ETHonly. As i am guy who likes to get updates i was constantly updating claymore and drivers.
At some point windows forced their FCU nigthmare and i saw that they merged windows defender with new antivirus functions and firewall all together so that ppl cant disable it completly.
Also i activated that registry tweak from some guy on internet and windows started missbehaving much more(no start menu,explorer giving some error..)
So i prolonged fresh instalation because i bought 5 more 56strix and tried to rule them with wattman. There was no chance without PPtables even referent cars worked without PPT flawlessly.
So i started learning how to mod PPtables and tested almost 2 weeks. I was sick of it, constant crashes after 12-15-20hours.
Then i realized its about new claymore miner. Luckly 11.5 with old kernels fixed issues.
Also i was mining only on ethermine(gosh this pool is crap)
You get constant payout because of constant block finding but those thing with stale, incorect and low shares....
So i tried anorak and it was giving me 550-600shares/h without any stale while ethermine was @460-520 with 11.5 3-5% stale.
Their pool is flown with too much ppl.
Also i tried without -oldkernels on anorak and my cards were stable about 30h. Then i put in dual mining XVG and im getting 480mhs eth and 25ghs xvg.
Before i changed from ethermine to anorak i did full system upgrade in must have order( BIOS, drivers for motherboard, winupdate full, turned off update, defender, firewall in settings, services and all over windows because they dont want us to turn it off- it took me 3 hours to turn off windows bloatware, xbox,skype all that stupid programs...)
Then i tweaked more with some services turned off, installed my oldschool comodo firewall ONLY and finaly get my control over system.
All that is possible with 10years of using windows to the fulllest and digging every new option through the years from XP till now.
Microsoft is giving us hard times with every new version and dont think you can just install fresh, tweak few things and have no problems.
After all that fight with software because cards are monsters i have one more issue that one guy mentioned few replys back.
One random Vega is dropping from cca 40-44 to 25-35 mhs. That was not happening before 10.5claymore.
What is going on???
Also with MarchAdrenaline drivers my log file told me that when some gpu crashes before crash miner was fetching Temperature of cards so i put -tt 0 and now i am so stable with fluctiations 3-4 mhs and every few minutes that drop to 30's mhs..
Claymore, i hope you read this essay and if you need log files i will be happy to send you.
Feel free to ask me anything
Try this in bat file put start /high ..
start /high EthDcrMiner64.exe -ethi 10 ... if you use -mvddc or -cvddc commands in bat file with new Adrenalin drivers sometimes high values on these commands will make errors like this especially claymore v11.x. Check for Asics quality in everycard with gpu-z and use low values for quality over %80-85 , use high for %70-75. Also you shouldn't mine while hwinfo or gpu-z working. If your cards have hardmoded bios and used -asm 2 command will also drop your hashrate like this.
