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

[forzendiablo]

how to use this -f -z properly on 4 GPU rig? it doesnt seem to work

[molitar]

Not sure why but after many many attempts running it.. it suddenly seemed to have stabilized.  But I will leave it on the 10 minute timer restart. but for test now it's been running about 20-25 minutes no crash.

[yslyung]

works fine on most of my rigs but on 1 particular rig on 1in 10, it just keeps on saying genoil.exe has failed or stopped with the popup dialog, gpu mines fine, even on older version, have no idea whats wrong with that rig.

looking fwd to more improvements.

on some other rigs just random crash, stopped work, just restart and it'll be ok for couple of hours. i'd say chk on rigs every 4-6 hours ? but this is really painful to do.

thx OP for sharing

[Wrcsubers]

Per the included readme file in 0.6:

--fail/-f 0: attempt gpu restart 1: exit gpu thread 2: exit application (default: 0)
--zero/-z 0: disable 0 sol/s watchdog 1: enable 0 sols/s watcdog (default: 1)

I would suggest putting using -f 2 as it exits the application all together, then you can just use a loop to restart it in a batch file.

Leaving watchdog on has helped with the tapering off I was experiencing on a couple of cards.

[xiaolin1579]

please support XnSub.

[Bojcha]

Please in next ver make command for log off/on.

[forzendiablo]

we need less CPU usage leak people, its GPU miner but takes loads of CPU

[Lion BItcoin Shop]

how to instal genoil at EThOS and how to run it?

[yslyung]

getting this on 1 of my rig:

zconn not accepted: low difficulty share of 0.062499046325683594 (23)

[Altcoining]

getting this on 1 of my rig:

zconn not accepted: low difficulty share of 0.062499046325683594 (23)

If you get this sometimes, it's fine, maybe once every few hours or so.

The share was too low difficulty and the pool rejected it.

[bardacuda]

how to instal genoil at EThOS and how to run it?

Step 1: Format drive
Step 2: Install windows
Step 3: Run Genoil
Step 4: ...
Step 5: Profit!

[zavage]

how to mine with cpu?

[Dr_Victor]

how to mine with cpu?

use for cpu another Z-miner

[jsanzsp]

Hey Guys... First time poster here, new-ish to mining...

I wanted to see if I can help some other people with the issues they are experiencing with mining ZCash using Genoil's miner.  I have a few different machines I'm using for mining but my main rig is 6x 390Xs running Windows 10 Pro.  I've, up until recently, been mining Ethereum on it running reliably at more than 200MH/s using Claymore's miner.  

Mining ZCash has meant a lot of baby sitting crashing software for the past few days, but I've been running Genoil's 0.6 now for about 6-7 hours without issue.  So far no decrease in hash rates and cards are all restarting upon a crash.  Here is my configuration:

Crimson 16.6 - Windows 10 Pro 64bit
6x R9 390X 8GB - Stock
Intel Celeron - 16GB RAM - Samsung SSD - 2x 1000w PSUs
Running Genoil 0.6 with the following batch file(s):

Code:

title Miner01
:start
genoil.exe -c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u YourZCashTAddress.Miner01 -p z -i 20 -w 64 -P 1 -f 2 -g 0 1
cls
timeout /T 10
goto start

I am running 2 cards per instance, which seems to be very stable, so 3 slightly different batch files.  The first line titles the cmd window so you know which miner you are looking at more easily.  The -f switch is set to 2 which will exit genoil.exe if the miner crashes, and the -g switch just says to run the first two cards.  That -g switch and the window title/address are the only that differ between my batch files.  Basically when Genoil crashes, for any reason, it will continue on in the batch file and just start Genoil.exe over continuously.  You may need to change the -P switch to a 0 if this doesn't work, different rigs are picky about this switch.

There is only one other problem with this... The windows debug window will pop up and yell at you saying Genoil.exe has crashed.  This will prohibit the batch file from continuing until you press 'Close Program'.  

The easiest solution to this is to turn off this dialog via Group Policy:
GPEdit.exe > Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Error Reporting > "Prevent display of the user interface for critical errors" = Enabled

There should be a way to do this via the registry if you don't have access to GPEdit, but the information I've found is inconclusive and hasn't seemed to work.

Now when one of your threads/cards crashes, they will restart automatically without any user interaction.

This setup has been tested on two different 'Hawaii' based rigs and another 'Pitcairn' rig.  Yield is about 30S/s on 390X & 17S/s on 270X.

Happy Mining - Let me know if you have any questions

Thaks works perfect for me

[Inkdatar]

Hashrates using the silentarmy v2 kernel:

R9 Fury X @1050/500 - 35-40 Sol/s
R9 290 & 390 @ 1060/1500 - 32-34 Sol/s
R9 280x @ 957/1200 - 28-32 Sol/s

Overall I'm really happy with the performance, but fixing the stability so it doesn't crash every time would make it even better 

How did you get the Fury X@1050/500 to 35-40 H/s. My R9 nano run at 1040/500 just at 28-32.

[jenifive]

Miner is working like shit just look at graph http://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1PT7dKu9pawC98N8m1SgeXuESEYta9HP5K

[amfofo]

mine is

sapphire r9-280x 3gb toxic 23-29
sapphire rx 480 8gb (ref) 33-42 (3x zec 40-42)

any idea  for 7990?

[Dr_Victor]

mine is

sapphire r9-280x 3gb toxic 23-29
sapphire rx 480 8gb (ref) 33-42 (3x zec 40-42)

any idea  for 7990?

I have on 7990 about 52 Sol/s

[Malutash]

mine is

sapphire r9-280x 3gb toxic 23-29
sapphire rx 480 8gb (ref) 33-42 (3x zec 40-42)

any idea  for 7990?

I have on 7990 about 52 Sol/s

I think your speed of the core/memory is around 1050/1500MHz. How much power consumption does it have?

[toptek]

I guess i eat my words but I still have faith hoping to see it tweaked  enough for some one to come up with a nice bios edit for Zcash

my 280 just stops with no reason and closes the app no matter what flag is set. noticed others had the same issue with 280

both of my r7 370 just stop no apps closes nothing and says hit enter to continue.

all nite my three 470 seemed ok and are still running .

log was put in for future use it doesn't say much,I guess .

no flag or switch seemed to work for me .

last thought they start up mining great then about 15 mins  some times less  speeds drop off a lot not like it was adjusting  , I hope that's not  how it works, can't really say we really don't know what speeds we should get, it still to unstable better but still not stable,over clocking doesn't seem to do much at first it does then give it time it crashes or expected speeds start dropping or cards stop for no reason.

I stay connected now Plus side, negative side they stop for no reason.

went back to http://zcash.flypool.org  I like it the best sense it's not really a pool issue like i was hoping, that, i think would be easier to fix .