GUIMiner-scrypt: A GUIMiner fork for mining scrypt chains

[Elmojo]

Hey TacoTime,
First off THANK YOU for your wonderful software and excellent support!
Your efforts to make LTC mining simple have REALLY helped me.

My Q is this:
Why is my GPU load with either cgminer or Reaper bouncing all over the place?
It fluctuates from ~64% to 99%.
I'm suspecting this might be related to shy I'm getting less-than-expected hashrates from my 7970.
I'm currently getting ~500 KH/s with either cgminer or reaper, with the following settings:
Thread Con=22392
Wksize=256
V=1 (can't turn off, anything other than 1 throws errors)
Intensity=13 (anything higher glitches my desktop)
Threads=1
Stratum=No
GPU is running at 1100 Core/1800 Mem, watercooled, 60c avg temp under load.

See anything that could account for my low rates?
Once again, thanks for your hard work!

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[marketermac]

I was able to open guiminer , but now it doesn't open and just stays on the taskbar , tried reinstalling it same error , any Ideas Taco ?


running windows 7 64bit

Delete C:\Users\You\Appdata\Roaming\poclbm\poclbm-scrypt.ini

It's a bug with wx where for some reason it puts the program 5 monitors away

I have this same problem except it doesn't even appear in the task bar when I try to open it using 13.1 drivers. I've tried the suggestion here.

Any other thoughts on what might fix this? Been trying to get this to run all day (and since like 5 windows installs ago lol). Only thing I can get working is reaper on 12.8 drivers so far...



EDIT:

Matter of fact if someone can get this running for me on my setup via teamviewer or something (CGIminer, not reaper) successfully I'm willing to tip in LTC or BTC for your trouble. Even if all you do is walk me through successfully using CGI miner by itself!

[tacotime]

Hey TacoTime,
First off THANK YOU for your wonderful software and excellent support!
Your efforts to make LTC mining simple have REALLY helped me.

My Q is this:
Why is my GPU load with either cgminer or Reaper bouncing all over the place?
It fluctuates from ~64% to 99%.
I'm suspecting this might be related to shy I'm getting less-than-expected hashrates from my 7970.
I'm currently getting ~500 KH/s with either cgminer or reaper, with the following settings:
Thread Con=22392
Wksize=256
V=1 (can't turn off, anything other than 1 throws errors)
Intensity=13 (anything higher glitches my desktop)
Threads=1
Stratum=No
GPU is running at 1100 Core/1800 Mem, watercooled, 60c avg temp under load.

See anything that could account for my low rates?
Once again, thanks for your hard work!

Hi,

Problem is with your intensity.  At 13 it will go down a lot.  Glitching is normal on 13.1 drivers, crank it to 20 and let it glitch.

[tacotime]

I'm getting what I believe to be is very poor performance from GUIminer-scrypt with my Radeon 7950. I see people talking about 500-600 Khash, but I'm lucky to get above 350! I'm not sure what would be causing the problem, so let me toss out some thoughts:

1) Mining on ozcoin.net (newlc.ozco.in:9332) -- they seem to be having DDOS issues at times, or at least sluggish response times. Could that be the problem?

2) CGminer vs. Reaper -- Reaper keeps crashing and I haven't gotten it to work right yet, so I'm on CGminer.

3) Settings might be bad. Currently, I'm getting best results using Thread concurrency 8192, worksize 256, vectors 1, intensity 13, GPU threads 2. (Without the GPU threads 2, it's more like 220 Khash!)

4) Maybe a poor driver choice? I'm currently on the Catalyst 13.2 beta I think, but I was going to upgrade to 13.3. Thoughts?

Okay, that's all for now. For what it's worth, hardware is Bloomfield i7-965X at 3.6 GHz, 12GB RAM, SSD for storage. I get around 450Mhash on Bitcoin with stability using same GPU. Current GPU clocks are 965/1250. HELP!?

1) Probably, try another pool
2) Reaper should be okay, but cgminer is fine now too
3) Need aggression 20 with (high usage settings), crank your ram to 1400-1500mhz.
4) 13.2 sucks, upgrade to 13.3 or 13.1

[tacotime]

I have this same problem except it doesn't even appear in the task bar when I try to open it using 13.1 drivers. I've tried the suggestion here.
Any other thoughts on what might fix this? Been trying to get this to run all day (and since like 5 windows installs ago lol). Only thing I can get working is reaper on 12.8 drivers so far...
EDIT:

Matter of fact if someone can get this running for me on my setup via teamviewer or something (CGIminer, not reaper) successfully I'm willing to tip in LTC or BTC for your trouble. Even if all you do is walk me through successfully using CGI miner by itself!

I've never heard of this so far.  What version of windows?

[marketermac]

I have this same problem except it doesn't even appear in the task bar when I try to open it using 13.1 drivers. I've tried the suggestion here.
Any other thoughts on what might fix this? Been trying to get this to run all day (and since like 5 windows installs ago lol). Only thing I can get working is reaper on 12.8 drivers so far...
EDIT:

Matter of fact if someone can get this running for me on my setup via teamviewer or something (CGIminer, not reaper) successfully I'm willing to tip in LTC or BTC for your trouble. Even if all you do is walk me through successfully using CGI miner by itself!

I've never heard of this so far.  What version of windows?

Windows 7 64b. I actually have it running on 2 rigs now, and the 3rd rig the only difference is the mobo which I think might be the root of my problems.

[tacotime]

Windows 7 64b. I actually have it running on 2 rigs now, and the 3rd rig the only difference is the mobo which I think might be the root of my problems.

You can actually use guiminer-scrypt to generate the cgminer run command if you want to use it from a bat, just go to View --> Show Console and then click to run your cgminer on one of the other computers.  It will automatically dump the command to mine with it.

Additionally, if you set up a reaper tab it will generate its own copies of reaper with the settings in it as well in a folder called "reaper-yourminernamehere".

[Elmojo]

Hey TacoTime,
First off THANK YOU for your wonderful software and excellent support!
Your efforts to make LTC mining simple have REALLY helped me.

My Q is this:
Why is my GPU load with either cgminer or Reaper bouncing all over the place?
It fluctuates from ~64% to 99%.
I'm suspecting this might be related to shy I'm getting less-than-expected hashrates from my 7970.
I'm currently getting ~500 KH/s with either cgminer or reaper, with the following settings:
Thread Con=22392
Wksize=256
V=1 (can't turn off, anything other than 1 throws errors)
Intensity=13 (anything higher glitches my desktop)
Threads=1
Stratum=No
GPU is running at 1100 Core/1800 Mem, watercooled, 60c avg temp under load.

See anything that could account for my low rates?
Once again, thanks for your hard work!

Hi,

Problem is with your intensity.  At 13 it will go down a lot.  Glitching is normal on 13.1 drivers, crank it to 20 and let it glitch.

Hey Taco, thanks for the reply!
Unfortunately, this is my primary work machine, so I can't let it bog down the desktop.
Were you implying that switching to a different driver would allow higher aggression without glitching?

[tacotime]

Yes, try 12.8 drivers and set your intensity to  "d" in cgminer so it mines when afk

[Elmojo]

Yes, try 12.8 drivers and set your intensity to  "d" in cgminer so it mines when afk

Will do, thanks.
How do I set the intensity to 'd'?
Do I just type that in the box in place of the current # (ie 13)?

[tacotime]

Yes, try 12.8 drivers and set your intensity to  "d" in cgminer so it mines when afk

Will do, thanks.
How do I set the intensity to 'd'?
Do I just type that in the box in place of the current # (ie 13)?

Yep

[Elmojo]

Tried 'd' flag for intensity, didn't work. My hash was stuck at 18 Kh/s.
Tried other values:
12=290
13=566 (why better than 14?)
14=417
20=675 (no glitching so far!)

Not sure why 20 is suddenly working smoothly, but I'll leave it there until it causes problems.
Thanks!

[meebs]

I just thought of a great idea....

add an option that allows a user to essentially enter in the exact same information as you would to get guiminer up and running...but instead of mining in the gui it will spit out a config file that you can copy to the desktop and run.

IMO, a properly configured cgminer is almost more user friendly then the guiminer (however guiminer is easier to setup for a complete new guy).

I can't imagine it would be THAT much work to implement, however I an not technically capable of such a task.. so I suggest it here instead

keep up the great work taco.

[Elmojo]

add an option that allows a user to essentially enter in the exact same information as you would to get guiminer up and running...but instead of mining in the gui it will spit out a config file that you can copy to the desktop and run.

I think Tacotime already addressed how to do exactly that, about 5 posts above yours.

and I quote: "You can actually use guiminer-scrypt to generate the cgminer run command if you want to use it from a bat, just go to View --> Show Console and then click to run your cgminer on one of the other computers.  It will automatically dump the command to mine with it."

Is that what you meant?

[Tejsei3]

For me as well, guiminer consistently under reports khash. This is true of 4 different rigs with 7xxx cards. Not a big deal, b/c I can always just check long term hashing with the pool which is the most reliable measure, but it makes hardware tweaking a little more difficult if I can't accurately judge the changes at the machine level.

This is strange.  I tested it today with a 7970 and I got the same results in cgminer from the console as with the guiminer.  The program just pulls the rates in KH/s from stdout, so they should be the same.  I noticed that for some reason after a while rates can decrease, though.  I will have to look into it and figure out what's going on.

Specifically for tuning I really like th 1s, 5s, and avg. display of cgminer. What would be even better would be an average that you could reset, that way you could try a new setting and see the average since the change without restarting cgminer or guiminer.

[Elmojo]

20=675 (no glitching so far!)
Not sure why 20 is suddenly working smoothly, but I'll leave it there until it causes problems.

I figured out how to run at intensity 20 without glitching my desktop!
All I have to do is NOT run GPU-Z. I'd been using it to monitor my temps and GPU utilization.
With GPU-Z running, my desktop becomes unusable, with the mouse running at around 0.5-1 fps.
With GPU-Z turned off, no problems, PC runs as normal, plus a rock-solid 676Kh/s!

Thanks for the help Tacotime!

[tacotime]

I just thought of a great idea....

add an option that allows a user to essentially enter in the exact same information as you would to get guiminer up and running...but instead of mining in the gui it will spit out a config file that you can copy to the desktop and run.

IMO, a properly configured cgminer is almost more user friendly then the guiminer (however guiminer is easier to setup for a complete new guy).

I can't imagine it would be THAT much work to implement, however I an not technically capable of such a task.. so I suggest it here instead

keep up the great work taco.

As the other user stated, it does dump the mining command to console.  In the next version I'll make it automatically output a "mine-yourminername.bat" file to the cgminer folder though so you can run them from the console if you like too (should also help people troubleshooting the program)

[tacotime]

Thanks for the help Tacotime!

np

[paladin281978]

tacotime
how to change the language?
changes the language, reboot, but the language is English, and not that I need.

[mteachx]

Code:

2013-04-08 18:28:27: Running command: C:\Users\4\Desktop\LTC\cgminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -u mteachx.6850_1 -p 6850 -o http://litecoinpool.org:9332 --gpu-platform 0 -d 0 -w 256 -v 1 -I 13 -g 1 -l 1 -T  --thread-concurrency 6144
2013-04-08 18:28:27: Listener for "Default" started
2013-04-08 18:28:33: Listener for "Default": [2013-04-08 18:28:27] Started cgminer 2.11.3
2013-04-08 18:28:33: Listener for "Default": [2013-04-08 18:28:29] Probing for an alive pool
2013-04-08 18:28:33: Listener for "Default": [2013-04-08 18:28:30] Switching pool 0 http://litecoinpool.org:9332 to stratum+tcp://nl.litecoinpool.org:3333
2013-04-08 18:28:33: Listener for "Default": [2013-04-08 18:28:31] Error -5: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)
2013-04-08 18:28:33: Listener for "Default": [2013-04-08 18:28:31] GPU 0 failure, disabling!
2013-04-08 18:28:33: Listener for "Default": [2013-04-08 18:28:31] Thread 0 being disabled
2013-04-08 18:28:33: Listener for "Default": (1s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | Q:1  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
2013-04-08 18:28:35: Listener for "Default": (1s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | Q:1  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
2013-04-08 18:28:37: Listener for "Default": (1s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | Q:1  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
2013-04-08 18:28:39: Listener for "Default": (1s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | Q:1  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
2013-04-08 18:28:41: Listener for "Default": (1s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | Q:1  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.0/m
2013-04-08 18:28:43: Listener for "Default" shutting down

but 5770 is working OK in this PC

What i should to do?
I have similar machines, some working, some don't.
W7 x86
12.8 Catalyst