[ANN] cudaMiner & ccMiner CUDA based mining applications [Windows/Linux/MacOSX]

[DirtyWilly]

Hi all, here are some quick tuning tips I've found.

So far I've been able to take:

680 GTX from 40,000 khash to 120,000 khash
780 Ti SC from 130,000 khash to 190,000 khash

And I've successfully found blocks.

Best settings I've found so far on both the 680 and 780 "K1024x32" - Increases 15,000 khash from most other settings tried
Set maxcoind.exe CPU affinity to at least two less cores - Increases 15,000 - 40,000 khash when a few cores aren't in use
Leave a Chrome browser or simple video/flash game running - Increases 50,000 khash or more if GPU is stepping low, crude solution till I figure out a way to disable stepping/power savings
Overclock yields more khash, no brainer

If you get ANY errors starting up Cudaminer, compute capability, exceed warp, out of memory, etc., you are not mining correctly!  This will produce wild results such as millions of unexplained khashes.

More to come, busy days for me, but I'll try to get a basic guide out for cudamining and tweaking maxcoin.

I'm getting about 105000 with gtx680 but the card shows only 80% power usage
-d 0 -L 128 -i 0 -l K1024x32

Reduce the number of cores set to maxcoind.exe in task manager.  Details Tab for Windows 8/8.1.

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[HeaDeKBaT]

Hi all, here are some quick tuning tips I've found.

So far I've been able to take:

680 GTX from 40,000 khash to 120,000 khash
780 Ti SC from 130,000 khash to 190,000 khash

And I've successfully found blocks.

Best settings I've found so far on both the 680 and 780 "K1024x32" - Increases 15,000 khash from most other settings tried
Set maxcoind.exe CPU affinity to at least two less cores - Increases 15,000 - 40,000 khash when a few cores aren't in use
Leave a Chrome browser or simple video/flash game running - Increases 50,000 khash or more if GPU is stepping low, crude solution till I figure out a way to disable stepping/power savings
Overclock yields more khash, no brainer

If you get ANY errors starting up Cudaminer, compute capability, exceed warp, out of memory, etc., you are not mining correctly!  This will produce wild results such as millions of unexplained khashes.

More to come, busy days for me, but I'll try to get a basic guide out for cudamining and tweaking maxcoin.

I'm getting about 105000 with gtx680 but the card shows only 80% power usage
-d 0 -L 128 -i 0 -l K1024x32

Reduce the number of cores set to maxcoind.exe in task manager.  Details Tab for Windows 8/8.1.

already did just using 2 cores out of 8
really my cpu usage is like 0

[Stanr010]

Are people still solo mining or are they trying to mine with pools? I can't get 1GH to accept any of my shares all I get are boo's.

[see360]

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Set maxcoind.exe CPU affinity to at least two less cores - Increases 15,000 - 40,000 khash when a few cores aren't in use
Leave a Chrome browser or simple video/flash game running - Increases 50,000 khash or more if GPU is stepping low, crude solution till I figure out a way to disable stepping/power savings
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OK, that flash game in a browser trick is amazing. My 780ti just jumped from 105khash/s to 180khash/s, just by going to flasharcade.com, but I can't figure out how to sustain it. youtube videos don't seem to be enough. What specifically keeps the effect going without babysitting the computer?

Also, I'm already running maxcoind with gen=0 (no CPU mining). Would mining would zero cores already be as good as the mining with at least two cores trick?

[9kracing]

Solo mining. Haven't found a block in hours.  


Anyone getting over 90 mh/s with GTX 570s? I've tried a bunch of stuff, seems like 90 is the limit.

[LuckyLuke]

so is there a place where i can download a full working cudaminer for maxcoin? or good tutorial?

[drakoin]

But how do I get a wallet adress? Windows 7 x64

It's a VERY common question during this drama.
Probably THE learning effect of tonight is to learn to live without a GUI, but do everything on the commandline.
The bitcoind.exe can do almost everything on the commandline that the bitcoin-qt.exe can do with mouseclicks.
And it's really easy to automate!!!!  So, take this chance and learn it.  

I made a bunch of BATCH files, to help you get into it. Adapt them to your needs:

WINDOWS maxcoind.exe for newbies
- survive without the qt-wallet, no need for GUI !

These simple batch files call each one of those API commands and show the results
(IF your maxcoind.exe is running in the background), until you press any key.

Code:

maxcoind backupwallet.bat
maxcoind dumpprivkey mYd9xFTAcT5N7MRxCexL3onUZsKUfchXuX.bat
maxcoind getaddressesbyaccount account01.bat
maxcoind getbalance.bat
maxcoind getinfo.bat
maxcoind getmininginfo.bat
maxcoind getnewaddress account01.bat
maxcoind help.bat
maxcoind listaccounts.bat
maxcoind listreceivedbyaccount.bat
maxcoind listtransactions account01.bat
maxcoind sendtoaddress mYd9xFTAcT5N7MRxCexL3onUZsKUfchXuX 1 ThankYouForYourBatchfiles.bat
maxcoind setgenerate false.bat
maxcoind setgenerate true.bat
maxcoind stop.bat
maxcoind _____ START-SERVER-maxcoind.exe_________.bat
maxcoind _______ support me by sending 1 MAX ___ thanks.bat

just unzip,
copy your maxcoind.exe into the same folder,
doubleclick "START SERVER" (and leave open!),
then doubleclick one of those .bat files.

Try them, then make your own with
Copy Paste Rename ... then right click ... edit ... save ... doubleclick.

download here:
https://mega.co.nz/#!U8AwAagC!TTnaxt7wVRqtrGFVUlWUvzAI2HO-9vHIMed3reRC7BY  
(EDIT: Updated to v03)

If you like it, then pay me (MAX) at mYd9xFTAcT5N7MRxCexL3onUZsKUfchXuX  or in these currencies:
(DGB DOGE EAC LTC NOBL PRT QRK SOC VTC 42 BTC) or let your rig run a bit for me. Thanks!


WINDOWS maxcoind.exe for newbies
- survive without the qt-wallet, no need for GUI !

^^ quickstart for newbies on windows.       

The windows wallet is called maxcoind.exe tonight.


P.S.:
Oh, and the cpuminer and the server-stratum is working well now,
but not the Max-Keiser-I-haven't-got-a-clue versions,
but the ones that the brilliant guys at #1ghcom repaired and compiled, their pool is working well now: http://max.1gh.com/

[fiftyseven]

Solo mining. Haven't found a block in hours.  


Anyone getting over 90 mh/s with GTX 570s? I've tried a bunch of stuff, seems like 90 is the limit.

Use Afterburner or other util to overclock - got mine at 1.1v, 950 core, 2100 mem and it gets 100Mh/s.

[HeaDeKBaT]

ok the more I read and test the more I think my card isn't working all the way...
I got a laptop with gtx675m to go 50 mhash but gtx 680 usually 3 times as fast is only 105 mhash and 80% power usage... I know I'm posting this for the 3rd time but anybody have any suggestions?
-d 0 -L 128 -i 0 -l K1024x32

[Stanr010]

For those of you trying to mine on ypool

Go to How To, Click Doge, Download the xptproxy

Launch the proxy. use the address http://localhost:8332 with all your configure for cudaminer etc.

It should be able to connect and mine

Basically download this:

http://jhwork.net/ypool/xptproxy.zip

then cudaminer blah blah -o http://localhost:8332

I tried doing that but all I get is this.
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[cbuchner1]

has anyone else had a bitcoin withdrawal from coins-e.com sitting there with 0 confirmations?

this is annoying as it's a lot of money in limbo there.

[bigjme]

Yeh mine is sitting there waiting. I checked on blockchain.info and im in a queue of 250 odd transactions but it has been seen by 6 people. How much is it your withdrawing christian? Mines only 2.5bitcoins

[Gabkicks]

I've been running for a few minutes, and I don't see any confirmed earnings. have I done something wrong or forgotten something? I'm unsure of what to do next:
cudaminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333 -O meZ3YuXWd2C6FFoymoqXGaj1gLUBBMtTnm:pass --algo=keccak -l T1024x16

C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\cudaminer-2014-02-06\cudaminer-2014-02-06\x86>c
udaminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333 -O meZ3YuXWd2C6FFoymoqXGaj1g
LUBBMtTnm:pass --algo=keccak -l T1024x16
           *** CudaMiner for nVidia GPUs by Christian Buchner ***
                     This is version 2014-02-06 (beta)
        based on pooler-cpuminer 2.3.2 (c) 2010 Jeff Garzik, 2012 pooler
            Cuda additions Copyright 2013,2014 Christian Buchner
          LTC donation address: LKS1WDKGED647msBQfLBHV3Ls8sveGncnm
          BTC donation address: 16hJF5mceSojnTD3ZTUDqdRhDyPJzoRakM
          YAC donation address: Y87sptDEcpLkLeAuex6qZioDbvy1qXZEj4
[2014-02-07 04:16:36] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://maxpool.1gh.com:17333
[2014-02-07 04:16:36] 1 miner threads started, using 'keccak' algorithm.
[2014-02-07 04:16:37] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 780 with compute capability 3.5
[2014-02-07 04:16:37] GPU #0: interactive: 1, tex-cache: 0 , single-alloc: 0
[2014-02-07 04:16:37] GPU #0: 32 hashes / 4.0 MB per warp.
[2014-02-07 04:16:37] GPU #0: Given launch config 'T1024x16' requires too much m
emory.
[2014-02-07 04:16:37] GPU #0: using launch configuration T1024x16
[2014-02-07 04:16:37] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 780, 77669 khash/s
[2014-02-07 04:17:17] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 780, 107590 khash/s

[bigjme]

Christian its been just under an hour and mine is starting to get confirmed now

[cbuchner1]

Yeh mine is sitting there waiting. I checked on blockchain.info and im in a queue of 250 odd transactions but it has been seen by 6 people. How much is it your withdrawing christian? Mines only 2.5bitcoins

same here.

[Hampuz]

So any news on a updated cudaminer that could work with the pools cbuchner?

[cbuchner1]

Does cudaminer not work with 1GH out the box? I either go forever without a share or when I do get a share it's rejected. 100% of the time.

there seem to be two problems

- difficulty way too high for pool mining shares
- and the sha256d vs. sha256 transaction signing issue (which the above patch would fix)

[Hampuz]

Does cudaminer not work with 1GH out the box? I either go forever without a share or when I do get a share it's rejected. 100% of the time.

there seem to be two problems

- difficulty way too high for pool mining shares
- and the sha256d vs. sha256 transaction signing issue (which the above patch would fix)

Im hashing away with my cpu over at 1GH, getting 6Mh/s, finding ALOT of shares,

[cbuchner1]

Does cudaminer not work with 1GH out the box? I either go forever without a share or when I do get a share it's rejected. 100% of the time.

there seem to be two problems

- difficulty way too high for pool mining shares
- and the sha256d vs. sha256 transaction signing issue (which the above patch would fix)

Im hashing away with my cpu over at 1GH, getting 6Mh/s, finding ALOT of shares,

this tells me that cudaminer gets the difficulty wrong. So I have to compare the code that translates stratum difficulty into hash target.

[ARE5]

Hi guys! Can't get my solo mining to work. I got GTX 660 and my bat file looks like this:

Code:

C:\cudaminer-2014-02-06\x64\cudaminer.exe --algo=keccak -d 0 -i -0 -C 2 -L 1024 -H 2 -l K1000x32 -R 5 -o http://127.0.0.1:8180 -u x -p z

My config file looks like this:

Code:

# Seed nodes
addnode=maxcoin.cloudapp.net
addnode=maxcoinus.cloudapp.net
addnode=maxcoinasia.cloudapp.net
addnode=maxexplorer.cloudapp.net
addnode=213.179.202.19
addnode=213.192.56.163:8334
addnode=wombat.dar.sh
addnode=95.85.14.92
addnode=95.85.38.7
addnode=95.85.41.61
addnode=95.85.40.179
addnode=95.85.42.240
addnode=95.85.43.202
addnode=95.85.43.189
addnode=95.85.25.162
addnode=107.170.246.18
addnode=107.170.245.188
addnode=107.170.245.192
addnode=107.170.10.242
addnode=192.241.174.133
addnode=95.85.45.177

# Enable RPC
rpcallowip=all
daemon=1
server=1
listen=1

# RPC information
rpcuser=x
rpcpassword=z
rpcport=8180
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1

# Mining
gen=0

And this is what i get:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9974469/cudaminer.PNG

Can someone help? Why i can't connect? Thanks!