Genoil's ZEC miner: AMD ZCash miner for Windows - 0.6

[bradli]

Do you think it's better -f 0 than -f 2?

-f 0 won't guarantee a success restart of your GPU I guess, cos mine just failed one and keep giving me 0S/s for a while

I am trying -f 2 and have to find out how to use bat file to check if the miner is running or killed.

 

from other forum

"Ok I've tried this with -f 2 and a simple restart loop batch file and it seems to be ok so far, has restarted once so far"

:loop
genoil.exe -c equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u YourBTC.YourWORKER -p x -f 2
goto loop

[mewhoyou]

can someone share the command line for reset if "0" hashrate is found?

[ryantc]

is 280 a rebrand 7970?
I have two Powercolor 7970 and they gave approx. 22S/s

maybe there might be one setting on i forgot about i used afterburner to turn it on might be why there is a setting called boost in after burner once it on it stys on other then that you think I'm making it up ? . if i turm it off it puts the card at 22 /23 i total forgot i had that on.

nop, I have no doubt in what you are saying, I am just trying to make mine hashing harder
I also use MSI afterburner, and it seems if I adjust clocks in afterburner, mining speed will turn to 5S, 9S or reduced significantly
trying to use the boost button, never realize there is a boost :p

[stef942]

Nice colors   hashrate increase a little no? unfortunatly my HD 7850 (pitcairn core) still not working but working on nheqminer and extremal miner  
win 7 radeon 16.10.3

Code:

16:02:43 main : Using OpenCL platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
16:02:43 main : gpu#0: Tahiti
16:02:43 main : gpu#1: Pitcairn
16:02:43 gpu#0: loading binary kernels/cache/zec-sa-Tahiti-64-20.bin
16:02:43 main : zec-sa#0: 0.0S/s        zec-sa#1: 0.0S/s        total: 0.0S/s16:02:43 pool : Connecting to equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357

16:02:43 gpu#1:  compiling kernels/zec-sa.cl...
16:02:43 pool : Connected!
16:02:43 pool : subscribed
16:02:43 pool : authorized worker 
16:02:43 pool : received new target: 0x01e1e1e1e00000...
16:02:43 pool : received new job #0000003629ab748c
16:02:45 gpu#1: writing binary kernels/cache/zec-sa-Pitcairn-64-20.bin
zec-sa#1clCreateBuffer(-61)
zec-sa#1clSetKernelArg(-48)
16:02:45 gpu#1: Mining thread quit

[ryantc]

can someone share the command line for reset if "0" hashrate is found?

simply add -f 0
at the end of genoil.exe line

[toptek]

is 280 a rebrand 7970?
I have two Powercolor 7970 and they gave approx. 22S/s

maybe there might be one setting on i forgot about i used afterburner to turn it on might be why there is a setting called boost in after burner once it on it stys on other then that you think I'm making it up ? . if i turm it off it puts the card at 22 /23 i total forgot i had that on.

nop, I have no doubt in what you are saying, I am just trying to make mine hashing harder
I also use MSI afterburner, and it seems if I adjust clocks in afterburner, mining speed will turn to 5S, 9S or reduced significantly
trying to use the boost button, never realize there is a boost :p

not all cards have it there was very few .  but  i just turn it off and rebooted the PC and it still does 30 with it off and no after burner on , i use AB mostly for fan control all most never for that card boost or off because i water cooled it a while back  i guess im just lucky .

[h311m4n]

On my 4 card rig, running 2 instances of Genoil, one for GPU 0+1, the other for GPU 2+3 seems to add to the stability for now.

Running one instance on all 4 cards would simply crash the whole rig. And yes, I've tried just mining on one card before mining on all of them...

[adaseb]

Pretty much all my rigs are Tahiti. 7950/7970/280x. Most I can get is like 22Sol/s. So far tried 13.12, 15.14 drivers. Will try 16.10.3 and see if there are any improvements.

[Eyedol-X]

Just tried out 0.6 on 2 systems -- 1 rig with 1 Rx480 and 2nd rig with 4 Rx480s

works for a bit then quits on both or instantly crashes with or without watchdog enabled.

Love the progress this miner is making! Can't wait for all the bugs to be worked out!

[ryantc]

On my 4 card rig, running 2 instances of Genoil, one for GPU 0+1, the other for GPU 2+3 seems to add to the stability for now.

Running one instance on all 4 cards would simply crash the whole rig. And yes, I've tried just mining on one card before mining on all of them...

that sounds a good idea, I can group same cards in my instance

[Trimegistus]

Both my 480 rigs are happily mining with v0.5 

Now I'm waiting for one of them to crash so I can try v0.6 

[adamvp]

On my 4 card rig, running 2 instances of Genoil, one for GPU 0+1, the other for GPU 2+3 seems to add to the stability for now.

Running one instance on all 4 cards would simply crash the whole rig. And yes, I've tried just mining on one card before mining on all of them...

Are that trick increase performance at least a little? Or have no impact?

[t2yax]

guys anyone mining with 2gb rx 460 here ? need to know current solve rate with this miner.

[becker]

Is 0.6 faster, because I just a few hours ago made myself my own bat file, after searching google for like 3 hours on how to do it (I suck at command line stuff), and am pretty burnt out messing with stuff, but it works now!!! Yay, autorestart.

If it's faster I guess I'll have to sacrifice my sanity to the crypto gods and delve back in, otherwise. Time to relax.

[Trimegistus]

guys anyone mining with 2gb rx 460 here ? need to know current solve rate with this miner.

I got a 4Gb 460 mining at 14~19, heavily undervolted

[ryantc]

On my 4 card rig, running 2 instances of Genoil, one for GPU 0+1, the other for GPU 2+3 seems to add to the stability for now.

Running one instance on all 4 cards would simply crash the whole rig. And yes, I've tried just mining on one card before mining on all of them...

Are that trick increase performance at least a little? Or have no impact?

I don't think it does, at least not for me, but the good thing is 1 error won't bring down the whole mining rig.
I am going to the extreme that open one instance for each card
make a batch file to delay each instance for 15 secs and kill them all every 1800 secs
see how stable then can get.

[h311m4n]

On my 4 card rig, running 2 instances of Genoil, one for GPU 0+1, the other for GPU 2+3 seems to add to the stability for now.

Running one instance on all 4 cards would simply crash the whole rig. And yes, I've tried just mining on one card before mining on all of them...

Are that trick increase performance at least a little? Or have no impact?

It has no real impact on performance. I just noticed that one of my card would get 0.0S/s more often. I played around and now running GPUs 0 + 2 and 1 + 3 on 2 instances. Works like a charm. Not using the -k zec zec parameter though, even if this increases the hashrate by like 10-15S/s (for 2 cards) it crashes my miner within seconds.

On another rig with 2 390X, the -k zec zec works nicely though, I'm getting between 65-70S/s with the 2 cards.

[h311m4n]

On my 4 card rig, running 2 instances of Genoil, one for GPU 0+1, the other for GPU 2+3 seems to add to the stability for now.

Running one instance on all 4 cards would simply crash the whole rig. And yes, I've tried just mining on one card before mining on all of them...

Are that trick increase performance at least a little? Or have no impact?

I don't think it does, at least not for me, but the good thing is 1 error won't bring down the whole mining rig.
I am going to the extreme that open one instance for each card
make a batch file to delay each instance for 15 secs and kill them all every 1800 secs
see how stable then can get.

Honestly I don't know if this makes a real difference, but for my particular rig it works nicely and it's a lot more stable. This is a 4x RX470 8Gb rig, cards were heavily undervolted (-137mv) for a rock solid 530W@Wall and 114Mh/s under ETH.

I've spent the last 2 days playing around and with verion 0.6, I finally have something stable on all my 3 rigs, totally around 240S/s now!

[DrX]

What Sols/s rate are you getting with 290(x)?  (Clocks 1030/1250)

I'm getting just about 25 Sols/s and 7950 and 280 gives about the same. (Clocks 900/1500)

By the way Miner is getting better on every release, thanks

my R9 280 at default get 29 to 37  not the X version and seem to the holdiong at 30 with this version of the miner even my r7 370 seem to run better .

Okey, thats much better than me :\

I start my miner (7950, 7950 , 280) with these options, have you changed w or i from Default?

Code:

genoil.exe -c POOL:PORT -u USER.WORKER -p z -g 0 1 2 -f 0

(E8400 and 2gigs of ram if these matter)

You can't get 30 with a Radeon 280. Not even with a 280x.

  that is my R9 280  3gb at stock setting water cooled



i use this setting sense everything else appers to be on by default

Code:

genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u ZEC address -p z

Nice man.  What AMD driver version are you using for your 280x?  Did you change intensity, work size or any other options?  Stock firmware flashed to card as well?  Undervolting?  Thanks!

Crimson Edition 16.10.3 Hotfix

here is the card i have
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131570

set at defaults including the software  miner. I may flash it to see what that does i was very impressed when support for older amd cards came how well this works, it went from using nicehash software hitting at best  10 sol to what you see when 0.42 came out or what ever version gave tahiti cards support .

Now i got 30 from my 280 too, 16.10.3 Hotfix did the trick, no change in 7950. Thanks for help

and for everyone else-> You dont have to install the driver, just copy these files to same drawer.

Code:

amdocl64.dll
amdocl12cl64.dll
amdocl12cl.dll
amdocl.dll
amd_opencl64.dll
amd_opencl32.dll

Would be nice to know what is the best driver for 290(x)

[ryantc]

if I am already running on 16.10.3 does this help?