Claymore's ZCash/BTG AMD GPU Miner v12.6 (Windows/Linux)

[CitricAcid]

Is there a Claymore ZCash miner for Nvidia ??

No

EWBF or DSTM

[CitricAcid]

My fury card wont start mining on version higher than 10. Last 1 working is Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v10.0 Beta - Catalyst 15.12-16.x

On newer I get 0 H/s and after some time driver crashes and miner tries to start again till same happens again.

Then you are doing something wrong.. I am running 5 fury's and 2 fury x's running version 12.6 with 16.3.2 drivers

My experience is that compared to other Claymore miners, this ZEC one seems to be least stable in current version. 

Not simply complaining; I am grateful to have good miner, and happy to pay for it with Dev Fee, because = stability.

Running 8 gigabyte RX580's, Win10, various drivers;  I have mined 30 days solid using latest Claymore Dual, mining for ETH only, with zero problems.  Fans are well controlled, as is temp.  No reboots.  Using miningpoolhub with no problems.

With this ZEC miner on same hardware, the miner does not last more than 8-9 hours without reboot due to miner hang.  While mining, it gets 2.3MH/s at flypool on average.

Have not tried debug log level yet..  Logs do say: "watchdog - thread 31, hb time 0" then the reboot.  This does not show in logs every time, for every reboot. 

Have reduced intensity from 6 to 5, no difference in reboots, but can see the difference in reported hashrates at pool. 

Have tweaked gpu and mem clocks to be conservative and as even as possible; and also tried larger ranges between each card.  None of cards are overclocked, all are underclocked or zero clock changes using Wattman.  (I burn the values into each VBIOS.)

Other weird things I noticed, maybe have no meaning and just flake; 

Using the -mport option in any form, it caused immediate loss of fan control to the miner (eg -fanmin 50 no longer had any effect). 

Sometimes the reboot seemed to come after Dev Fee mining sees a stale share. 

Sometimes reboot seemed to come after >5 stale shares. 

Checking hashrates and % invalid at pool, the qty of invalid shares is to good shares is 0.02  -  0.03%  - so it is not like crazy overclocked, with high number of rejects; I guess qty of invalid shares does *not* seem tied to reboot.

you mention various drivers??  You should be on the latest AMD drivers with RX580's..   Zcash mining software is very driver sensitive

[CitricAcid]

I've been running claymore ZEC miner for 48 hours... so far I haven't gotten a single bit of ZEC.. Any suggestions before I dump this? My rig should pull over 400 h/s

You have given zero information... I've been mining for 48 hours (mining what, where, how?) How do you know you haven't gotten a single bit of ZEC?? What pool are you using? what wallet are you using? Did you change the config file to YOUR wallet?

Hehehe, go easy on him... These folks think we can help them just by means of our telepathic powers. By the lack of reply, I'm thinking you already helped him. Maybe by reminding him to change the default wallet 

you're right, I should go easy.... but after months of asking the same exact questions trying to help people who can't seem to read for 15 minutes to help themselves, I get irritated.
And you're again right, it probably was the wallet address issue

[Assaro]

Guys sorry for bother you, but could someone pls explain me the earnings on BTG?  

Have 1920 h/s and after 3 days of mining getting just 0,06182091 BTG...

Calculators says it should be something like 0,054 - 0,055 BTG day...

Switched the pool and same result, after 2,5 days got 0,0565 BTG...

What im missing?

Thanks for any input

[CitricAcid]

Guys sorry for bother you, but could someone pls explain me the earnings on BTG?  

Have 1920 h/s and after 3 days of mining getting just 0,06182091 BTG...

Calculators says it should be something like 0,054 - 0,055 BTG day...

Switched the pool and same result, after 2,5 days got 0,0565 BTG...

What im missing?

Thanks for any input

What calculator??? What are your gpu's and how many?

[Assaro]

Guys sorry for bother you, but could someone pls explain me the earnings on BTG?  

Have 1920 h/s and after 3 days of mining getting just 0,06182091 BTG...

Calculators says it should be something like 0,054 - 0,055 BTG day...

Switched the pool and same result, after 2,5 days got 0,0565 BTG...

What im missing?

Thanks for any input

What calculator??? What are your gpu's and how many?

Calculator: coinwarz & whattomine

GPU list:

2x R9 290
1x HD8990
1x R9 295x2

Total hash 1920 h/s av.

[CitricAcid]

Guys sorry for bother you, but could someone pls explain me the earnings on BTG?  

Have 1920 h/s and after 3 days of mining getting just 0,06182091 BTG...

Calculators says it should be something like 0,054 - 0,055 BTG day...

Switched the pool and same result, after 2,5 days got 0,0565 BTG...

What im missing?

Thanks for any input

What calculator??? What are your gpu's and how many?

Calculator: coinwarz & whattomine

GPU list:

2x R9 290
1x HD8990
1x R9 295x2

Total hash 1920 h/s av.

They both do come up with the 0.058 and 0.054 number per day, but that is optimal pool performance. So I would say the pool you are on is not getting a lot of blocks.

[stealth2600]

how many sols should i get on rig with 6x380x from AMD, i'm thinking about make a rig, winter is coming.

amd r9 380x gives around 280 - 340 sol/s based on bios and clocks, amd products are better for cryptonote a moded rx 480 can give around 750 - 1000 h/s.

@halker2010 - Just wondering how are you getting 280 - 340 Sol/s with the R9 380X? What driver are you using? What are your overclocking settings and what custom BIOS if any are you running? I have three of these cards and I have only been able to get 235 sol/s from each by overclocking. If your using a custom BIOS can you please email it to me? It would be very much appreciated. I haven’t been able to find one for these cards and I would love an additional 45 to 105 sol/s from each of these. Thanks in advanced for the help.

[Assaro]

Guys sorry for bother you, but could someone pls explain me the earnings on BTG?  

Have 1920 h/s and after 3 days of mining getting just 0,06182091 BTG...

Calculators says it should be something like 0,054 - 0,055 BTG day...

Switched the pool and same result, after 2,5 days got 0,0565 BTG...

What im missing?

Thanks for any input

What calculator??? What are your gpu's and how many?

Calculator: coinwarz & whattomine

GPU list:

2x R9 290
1x HD8990
1x R9 295x2

Total hash 1920 h/s av.

They both do come up with the 0.058 and 0.054 number per day, but that is optimal pool performance. So I would say the pool you are on is not getting a lot of blocks.

well atm im at https://mine.pool.gold/ and before i was on http://btgpool.pro   so i think this is not the problem..... or?

Any advice would be helpfull...

[ccplz]

Kinda stupid question since I've been away for a while.

Got 2x 290 cards using 390 bios and a 280x mining zcash.

I'm using the latest claymore zec miner for the 290 and getting 365 hashes out of each one.
I'm using the latest optiminer for the 280x(claymore's miner gets only like 80 hashes out of the card for some reason, I think the card idles after a while).
I'm using the 15.12 drivers.


Now I want to ask, is there any room for improvement on the hashrates?The hashrates were fine like a year ago when I used them a lot, but I want to know what hashrates are other people pulling with these cards.
I also saw that AMD released some kind of official mining drivers(i think?) do they have any impact on the hashrate?



Thanks in advance.

[Demarsac]

Kinda stupid question since I've been away for a while.

Got 2x 290 cards using 390 bios and a 280x mining zcash.

I'm using the latest claymore zec miner for the 290 and getting 365 hashes out of each one.
I'm using the latest optiminer for the 280x(claymore's miner gets only like 80 hashes out of the card for some reason, I think the card idles after a while).
I'm using the 15.12 drivers.


Now I want to ask, is there any room for improvement on the hashrates?The hashrates were fine like a year ago when I used them a lot, but I want to know what hashrates are other people pulling with these cards.
I also saw that AMD released some kind of official mining drivers(i think?) do they have any impact on the hashrate?



Thanks in advance.

Update your drivers to blockchain drivers and above
You will see much improvement

[Assaro]

Kinda stupid question since I've been away for a while.

Got 2x 290 cards using 390 bios and a 280x mining zcash.

I'm using the latest claymore zec miner for the 290 and getting 365 hashes out of each one.
I'm using the latest optiminer for the 280x(claymore's miner gets only like 80 hashes out of the card for some reason, I think the card idles after a while).
I'm using the 15.12 drivers.


Now I want to ask, is there any room for improvement on the hashrates?The hashrates were fine like a year ago when I used them a lot, but I want to know what hashrates are other people pulling with these cards.
I also saw that AMD released some kind of official mining drivers(i think?) do they have any impact on the hashrate?



Thanks in advance.

Update your drivers to blockchain drivers and above
You will see much improvement

What is the improvement for r9 290 / HD8990 and R9 295x2? Is it worth to update the drivers to block chain? Undervolting possible? dint checked it also for some time

Ty for any imput.

[woodduck]

My experience is that compared to other Claymore miners, this ZEC one seems to be least stable in current version.  

Not simply complaining; I am grateful to have good miner, and happy to pay for it with Dev Fee, because = stability.

Running 8 gigabyte RX580's, Win10, various drivers;  

you mention various drivers??  You should be on the latest AMD drivers with RX580's..   Zcash mining software is very driver sensitive

Thanks for those words.  I tried:
 
b l o c k c h a i n  Driver Version 17.30.1029
Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.2
Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.4 Optional   *currently running
Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1

Have learned, in all above driver cases, -fanmin does not behave the same as Claymore ETH miner.  Manual fan control using wattman is required for me with Claymore ZEC miner, but at least fans can be controlled.  Did not have to do this with ETH version.  Maybe its my vbios customizations having negative effect in zcash mining but not eth mining..  I don't know..

Also learned wattman has new feature to select 'compute workloads' instead of 'graphics workloads', but I only seem to be able to activate it for 4 gpu.  Difference seems to be a couple degrees less heat in compute-workload-enabled cards.  Hash/sec is within 0.1% across cards.

Also have taken to stop/restart the miner about every 12 hours, and have not suffered hang/reboot in last 48 hrs.  

Avoiding miner hang/reboot is good because wattman loses all settings.  And since wattman settings are lost, I cannot automatically restart miner (because no fan control.)

edit: suspicious link fixed

[shap00]

hi guys. when i mine ethereum, my claymore is working fine, but when a try to swtich to zecminer, the window pops for 1/4 second and then closes and nothing happens. what should i do?
this are my values: ZecMiner64.exe -zpool eu1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -zwal walletadress.rig1 -zpsw x
what should i do? thanks

[syraka76]

under your command line put pauses, and see the error that gives you

ZecMiner64.exe -zpool eu1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -zwal walletadress.rig1 -zpsw x
pause

[ronaldjoffrre]

Hello, its possible miner dual ETH + ZCASH with claymore, Thz..

Which combination is possible with ETH?

ETH + DRC, other elese?? THZ

[syraka76]

Hello, its possible miner dual ETH + ZCASH with claymore, Thz..

no

[Dekkyy]

Does anyone know why is my hashrate jumping up and down so much. Here i my lo flile.
Any help would be appreciated.

Log: https://pastebin.com/UpMhRBMF

[CitricAcid]

Guys sorry for bother you, but could someone pls explain me the earnings on BTG?  

Have 1920 h/s and after 3 days of mining getting just 0,06182091 BTG...

Calculators says it should be something like 0,054 - 0,055 BTG day...

Switched the pool and same result, after 2,5 days got 0,0565 BTG...

What im missing?

Thanks for any input

What calculator??? What are your gpu's and how many?

Calculator: coinwarz & whattomine

GPU list:

2x R9 290
1x HD8990
1x R9 295x2

Total hash 1920 h/s av.

They both do come up with the 0.058 and 0.054 number per day, but that is optimal pool performance. So I would say the pool you are on is not getting a lot of blocks.

well atm im at https://mine.pool.gold/ and before i was on http://btgpool.pro   so i think this is not the problem..... or?

Any advice would be helpfull...

Advise that the best answer was given, but you believe it not to be correct, that is your right.  

So what you should do, is take documentation to the sites that say this, prove to them that what you are getting is lower than the ESTIMATE of coins they say you should be getting. Then demand them to compensate you for the difference since their ESTIMATION is wrong.

[tkalfaoglu]

I have an interesting case: My HD6870 is a 1GB card.

Driver 15.12 fails to install; it appears to install, but does not work.
After trying many different drivers I found that 15.20 both works and is recognised by the mining software.

Trying to mine zcash from slushpool,  I constantly get GPU errors saying
GPU #0 returned incorrect data! 

I tried -i 0 , -power and many other settings like -old, nothing helped.
What do you suggest I do? Many thanks!
-t