i can not find any guide out there to use for mining with gpu in solo, is this even possible with cryptonote?
I think there is a branch of Monero that allows solo mining with GPUs without running a pool, but I'm not seeing it at the moment. I don't think it's been merged into master, and I don't remember who was working on it, but yea, in general you can't solo mine with GPUs without running your own pool on cryptonotes.
Are you thinking of MBK's Boolberry fork "Boolberry OpenCL" that allows you to solo mine to the daemon with GPU's?
https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl.gitNo, it's much more recent than that, and I believe it is miner agnostic, i.e. you run the daemon, and then you can solo mine to the daemon with cpuminer, wolf amd miner, claymore, ccminer, etc.
Edit: I think it's actually merged into the master branch now, but you have to use modified versions of wolf miner, ccminer, or cpuminer that can be found here:
https://github.com/hyc?tab=repositories