excavator by NiceHash - multi-algorithm NVIDIA GPU miner [1.5.6a]

[joaocha]

Zawawa, The dag epoch 129+ on polaris cards will begin to suffer perfomance in Eth and Etc,
Are you aware of this problem?

Any solution incoming?

[laik2]

Zawawa, The dag epoch 129+ on polaris cards will begin to suffer perfomance in Eth and Etc,
Are you aware of this problem?

Any solution incoming?

A million dollar question

[Trimegistus]

Tested v1.2.6 alpha with daggerhashimoto and got 1/3 the speed of the latest GatelessGate.

Am I doing something wrong?

Code:

[
	{"time":0,"commands":[
		{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["daggerhashimoto","daggerhashimoto.eu.nicehash.com:3353","1NNEZsaaqyAAJeDsFbD1rkQqdAaCNvKciZ.PC"]}
	]},
	{"time":3,"commands":[
		{"id":1,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","0"]},
		{"id":1,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","0"]}
	]},
	{"time":10,"loop":10,"commands":[
		{"id":1,"method":"worker.print.speed","params":["0"]},
		{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.print.speeds","params":["0"]}
	]}
]

[joaocha]

Tested v1.2.6 alpha with daggerhashimoto and got 1/3 the speed of the latest GatelessGate.

Am I doing something wrong?

Code:

[
	{"time":0,"commands":[
		{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["daggerhashimoto","daggerhashimoto.eu.nicehash.com:3353","1NNEZsaaqyAAJeDsFbD1rkQqdAaCNvKciZ.PC"]}
	]},
	{"time":3,"commands":[
		{"id":1,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","0"]},
		{"id":1,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","0"]}
	]},
	{"time":10,"loop":10,"commands":[
		{"id":1,"method":"worker.print.speed","params":["0"]},
		{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.print.speeds","params":["0"]}
	]}
]

Delete 1 worker,
Run with 1 thread per gpu

[Trimegistus]

Delete 1 worker,
Run with 1 thread per gpu

Thanks, that did it. However, still 10% slower than GG :-(

Any ideas to improve RX 480 performance?

What about mining to other pools other than NH? Can it be done? I got an error with Ethermine 

[joaocha]

Delete 1 worker,
Run with 1 thread per gpu

Thanks, that did it. However, still 10% slower than GG :-(

Any ideas to improve RX 480 performance?

What about mining to other pools other than NH? Can it be done? I got an error with Ethermine 

Only nicehash eth protocol accepted, you can mine on nicehash or suprnova

[polymer_city]

Running 7 x rx480 OC'd & bios mod

Averaging about 184 MH/S

On Claymore I was running 195 MH/S but pool average was only 170 MH/S

Excavator output
https://prnt.sc/fmd963

Ethermine with claymore
http://prntscr.com/fmdal2

I will be running this from now on.

Well done to the devs

[Trimegistus]

Running 7 x rx480 OC'd & bios mod

Averaging about 184 MH/S

On Claymore I was running 195 MH/S but pool average was only 170 MH/S

Excavator output
https://prnt.sc/fmd963

Ethermine with claymore
http://prntscr.com/fmdal2

I will be running this from now on.

Well done to the devs

You should check pool side also with excavator. And try to compare the performance with Gateless Gate. Taking into account the fees (Either Claymore's or Nicehash's), one of the best solutions might be to mine with GG on Ethermine :-). No devfee and low pool fee. Just an idea...

[wacko]

Taking into account the fees (Either Claymore's or Nicehash's), one of the best solutions might be to mine with GG on Ethermine :-). No devfee and low pool fee. Just an idea...

But excavator doesn't have any devfee, does it?

[Trimegistus]

Taking into account the fees (Either Claymore's or Nicehash's), one of the best solutions might be to mine with GG on Ethermine :-). No devfee and low pool fee. Just an idea...

But excavator doesn't have any devfee, does it?

No, but you can't use it in any pool. If you use it in Nicehash you'll pay a high service fee.

[BustyKuroNeko]

Taking into account the fees (Either Claymore's or Nicehash's), one of the best solutions might be to mine with GG on Ethermine :-). No devfee and low pool fee. Just an idea...

But excavator doesn't have any devfee, does it?

No, but you can't use it in any pool. If you use it in Nicehash you'll pay a high service fee.

Mind elaborating why using excavator on nicehash has a really high service fee???

[Trimegistus]

Taking into account the fees (Either Claymore's or Nicehash's), one of the best solutions might be to mine with GG on Ethermine :-). No devfee and low pool fee. Just an idea...

But excavator doesn't have any devfee, does it?

No, but you can't use it in any pool. If you use it in Nicehash you'll pay a high service fee.

Mind elaborating why using excavator on nicehash has a really high service fee???

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=faq

Code:

Sellers:
Fee for all nicehash-wallet mining payments (regardless of size) is 2%. 
Fee for payments with unpaid balances, greater than 0.1 BTC to external-wallet is 3%. 
Fee for payments with unpaid balances, greater than 0.01 BTC to external-wallet is 4%.

[wacko]

No, but you can't use it in any pool. If you use it in Nicehash you'll pay a high service fee.

So the first post in this topic isn't correct?

Excavator is a multi-algorithm advanced CUDA and OpenCL miner. Miner is close-sourced, but open to ANY pool and does NOT contain any fees.

I'm still new to this miner and haven't really had a chance to use it properly. You're saying it won't work with ethermine?

[BustyKuroNeko]

Taking into account the fees (Either Claymore's or Nicehash's), one of the best solutions might be to mine with GG on Ethermine :-). No devfee and low pool fee. Just an idea...

But excavator doesn't have any devfee, does it?

No, but you can't use it in any pool. If you use it in Nicehash you'll pay a high service fee.

Mind elaborating why using excavator on nicehash has a really high service fee???

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=faq

Code:

Sellers:
Fee for all nicehash-wallet mining payments (regardless of size) is 2%. 
Fee for payments with unpaid balances, greater than 0.1 BTC to external-wallet is 3%. 
Fee for payments with unpaid balances, greater than 0.01 BTC to external-wallet is 4%.

Well from that i see I am in the 4% category... that is quite high indeed

[Trimegistus]

No, but you can't use it in any pool. If you use it in Nicehash you'll pay a high service fee.

So the first post in this topic isn't correct?

Excavator is a multi-algorithm advanced CUDA and OpenCL miner. Miner is close-sourced, but open to ANY pool and does NOT contain any fees.

I'm still new to this miner and haven't really had a chance to use it properly. You're saying it won't work with ethermine?

I tried it yesterday with no success. Read the previous page and you'll see other user confirming it will only work with NiceHash and Suprnova (?)

If anyone figures how to get it to work with Ethermine, I would love to know!

NOTE: I'm obviously refering to ETH mining. You can use excavator with other algorithms in other pools. But wit DaggerHashimoto, only nicehash's stratum protocol is supported :-(

[polymer_city]

Can anyone help with the hardware acceleration?

running just the admin-start.bat I get

Build time: 2017-06-20 22:37:05
Build number: 410
Provided startup commandline:
        excavator  -c default_command_file.json

[18:54:08][0x00001528][info] Log started
[18:54:08][0x00001528][info] opencl | Loaded phymem for direct PCIe access.
Press any key to continue . . .

Do i need to edit this bat file for excavator?

If i right click and run the original bat file as admin, I get a constant loop of "Excavator has crashed"

[user0000001]

When do you plan to add CUDA to algo daggerhashimoto?

[zawawa]

Can anyone help with the hardware acceleration?

running just the admin-start.bat I get

Build time: 2017-06-20 22:37:05
Build number: 410
Provided startup commandline:
        excavator  -c default_command_file.json

[18:54:08][0x00001528][info] Log started
[18:54:08][0x00001528][info] opencl | Loaded phymem for direct PCIe access.
Press any key to continue . . .

Do i need to edit this bat file for excavator?

If i right click and run the original bat file as admin, I get a constant loop of "Excavator has crashed"

Which video card are you using? I'd like to see your command file as well.

[zawawa]

When do you plan to add CUDA to algo daggerhashimoto?

The CUDA people are currently working on it. It will be ready very soon.

[Adevill20]

Can anyone help with the hardware acceleration?

running just the admin-start.bat I get

Build time: 2017-06-20 22:37:05
Build number: 410
Provided startup commandline:
        excavator  -c default_command_file.json

[18:54:08][0x00001528][info] Log started
[18:54:08][0x00001528][info] opencl | Loaded phymem for direct PCIe access.
Press any key to continue . . .

Do i need to edit this bat file for excavator?

If i right click and run the original bat file as admin, I get a constant loop of "Excavator has crashed"

I have the exact same issue, even when using the default command file.