WinMiner v1.126a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization

[TheMightySpud]

Hi all,

I'm having a really strange issue with WinMiner.

When running the benchmark it reports that I'm getting 12-14GPB per day.  However when it actually starts mining (on the same coins that the benchmark gives that GBP value) it drops to 8-10 GBP per day.

Looking at the dashboard/application I can see that the culprit is the Radeon R295x2 that I've got running.  The hashrate drops through the floor when the benchmark has completed and it starts to 'live mine'.

Would anyone have any ideas what would be causing this?

Thanks
TheMightySpud

[skyviper80]

Hi all,

I'm having a really strange issue with WinMiner.

When running the benchmark it reports that I'm getting 12-14GPB per day.  However when it actually starts mining (on the same coins that the benchmark gives that GBP value) it drops to 8-10 GBP per day.

Looking at the dashboard/application I can see that the culprit is the Radeon R295x2 that I've got running.  The hashrate drops through the floor when the benchmark has completed and it starts to 'live mine'.

Would anyone have any ideas what would be causing this?

Thanks
TheMightySpud

From my experience with WinMiner, when you see the hashrate drop post benchmark on a set of cards its normally due to the miner that WinMineer chooses. Since version 1.94 it's had a bad rep for choosing the wrong pairing when dual mining. Check your command log and see what miner it's using. If it's the ClaymoreDualEthBlake70 or 100 miner, disable it and the program will choose the other dual miner which will in most cases improve your hashrate and profitability.

The two mentioned miners have the secondary coin option defaulted to -i 70 and -i 100. The other miners have it defaulted to -i 30 which will yield better results in most situations.

[CutterKin]

@TeamWinMiner

I'm liking your software very much so far. Looking forward to watching it mature, and being a part of your growth.

Question about the Amazon gift card payout option... It seems that $20 (with a $1 fee) is currently your only choice. Will you ever offer more?

It looks to me currently that if I wanted $300 worth of Amazon cards, I would need to purchase 15 separate cards and pay $15 in fees. A bit much. Would be nice to see higher options, or a (more reasonable) flat fee for larger purchases.

P.S. I actually read every page of this thread to get myself up to speed once I discovered your software. Please ignore the whiners who don't understand that your software is barely out of beta, and the ones who expected you to miraculously scale up your operations 10x overnight after the NiceHash hack. Those of us out here who recognize good work appreciate what you have done, and can see that you are on your way to greatness.

Thanks, sincerely, and keep up the great work!

[fahadaziz321]

Can We Run this software portable on a old computer  Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHZ 2GB Ram DDR2
OR NOT ?
OR IT WILL BE VERY LESS EARNING ? AND ELECTRICITY COST WILL BE MORE ?

IF WE RUN THIS PORTABLE SOFTWARE ON CORE 2 DUO 2.8 GHZ 2GB RAM EVERY NIGHT FROM 9 PM TO NEXT DAY 9 AM MORNING  WHEN COMPUTER IS NOT USED BY SOMEONE
THAN WHAT WILL BE EARNING PER DAY ?

[Eisenkopf89]

Can We Run this software portable on a old computer  Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHZ 2GB Ram DDR2
OR NOT ?
OR IT WILL BE VERY LESS EARNING ? AND ELECTRICITY COST WILL BE MORE ?

IF WE RUN THIS PORTABLE SOFTWARE ON CORE 2 DUO 2.8 GHZ 2GB RAM EVERY NIGHT FROM 9 PM TO NEXT DAY 9 AM MORNING  WHEN COMPUTER IS NOT USED BY SOMEONE
THAN WHAT WILL BE EARNING PER DAY ?

You will earn with this old CPU not very much. Maybe round about 5-10 Cents when you mine 24h a day. Use a GPU when you want to earn something or a good CPU like AMD Ryzen 7 1800.

[kodokhitam007]

can I use in MacBook?

[commenkiz]

can Winminer add RIPPLE as a payment ?

[GetDatEth]

@TeamWinminer
I'm having issues with Statistics updating. Any solutions out there?

[mdatot]

I'm having issues with Statistics updating. Any solutions out there?

What kind of issues? All I've noticed is that it seems to update once an hour with an one-hour delay (so at 15:00-ish it adds statistics from 13:00 to 14:00), and that the timestamps are in UTC.

[GetDatEth]

Right, is that the case?

I've been off winminer for about 4days, is this part of the new update, the delayed Stats? It wasn't so previously.

[Cyan_Antares]

WinMiner v1.99a is now released!
Fixed the reported idle bug.

thanks for this awesome program. I've started using it today and it is fun to use.

I wonder, though, if the Idle bug is solved. I downloaded the program today and the connection got lost for a few seconds and the program remained idle on my AMD Ryzen CPU and RX 570 desktop computer. But it is working fine now, all the time.

However, my laptop with a 1050Ti sometimes go idle for no apparent reason, even if I am using it. Dunno it it's due to a coin switch or whatever, but setting Winminer to restart after 1 minute doesn't seem to work when that happens either. You have the option to start it manually but that's not practical.

Happy new year everyone!

[GetDatEth]

Are the daily rate based off the reported hashrate (client-side) or calculated from submitted shares on pool-side. I suspect it's based of client-side hashrate as it doesn't seem to tie up with what I've earned.

And is there a way one can finetune amd cards for ETH and store that value? I don't want to be smashing the -dcri button every time your miner chooses to restart or changes from one ethash algo to another.

[skyviper80]

And is there a way one can finetune amd cards for ETH and store that value? I don't want to be smashing the -dcri button every time your miner chooses to restart or changes from one ethash algo to another.

You can fine tune individual miners by going to settings->miners and then to the appropriate miner and entering your customization.

[GetDatEth]

And is there a way one can finetune amd cards for ETH and store that value? I don't want to be smashing the -dcri button every time your miner chooses to restart or changes from one ethash algo to another.

You can fine tune individual miners by going to settings->miners and then to the appropriate miner and entering your customization.

awesome! worked like a charm

[Cyan_Antares]

enjoying this program very much. However, it can be working on my laptop for a while, but sometimes for no apparent reason and usually when I am away from the computer even if it's just a minute, it goes to Idle mode and I have to click on Start. Why does it happen?

Now it's time for a suggestion... I use it on my desktop computer and my laptop. My desktop computer has a RX 570 and a Ryzen 1500X. The issue is that I found out via whattomine that the most profitable coin today for the RX 570 is Musicoin.

So I decided to manually select Musicoin and deselect the rest of the coins. By doing so, my CPU stopped to mine 'cos the coin can't be mined with a CPU. That's ok. BUT, I decided to add ETN to the list of coins to mine manually, and here is the issue...

WinMiner decided to avoid Musicoin altogether and mined ETN on both the CPU and the GPU, which isn't what I wanted. I wanted to mine whatever random coin on the CPU and Musicoin on the GPU.

Could you add please, the ability to manually select the coins to mine per device someday?  

[GetDatEth]

@TeamWinMiner

I'm experiencing moments when the miner stops and goes idle and I have to restart manually after which my connection gets remotely closed by pool.

I'm also experiencing a random card stops to mine after about 10-15mins. I've run system for over an hour in a different pool with no issues.

Is there a ticket for this already? Any resolutions?

Specs
Z170 Pro gaming
G3900
6x RX570(mixed)
16GB RAM.

[GetDatEth]

I think I'm done with Winminer for a few days till they sort out idle business. GTX1080 rig, gone idle. I can't keeping manning rigs to make a buck..

[skyviper80]

I think I'm done with Winminer for a few days till they sort out idle business. GTX1080 rig, gone idle. I can't keeping manning rigs to make a buck..

You have several posts to try and responded to so I'll try and help as much as possible.

For the idle mining can you verify what mining mode you are running under, automatic, manual, farm. Automatic mode will mine as long as it detects that your system is idle for the allotted time, default 5 min. If it's a dedicated rig this in my experience is the worst mode to run in. Manual mode you hit start and it will mine until you hit stop, for mixed use machines this is the ideal mode in my experience. Farm mode is the best for running a dedicated mining rig.

You stated you were getting disconnect messages. Did you have the option to show command screen enabled and received the error there? If yes do you know what coin it was mining? Did you send an email to support at WinMiner.com to alert them of the outage? If/when a pool goes offline the system will retry automatically and move to a new pool after x number of attempts. If you are like me, you are impatient and don't want to wait for the x number to happen. In this scenario it's best to go into the coin tab and choose manual and deselect the coin that is currently offline, don't forget to re-enable it after the pool is back up though. If you sent an email to support they normally respond to let you know the pool is back up and thank you for reporting it.

I can't give you any advice on why you can only mine for 10-15 min as we have many machines that have been running WinMiner for months without issues. I'd see if you can narrow it down to a specific miner, coin, or if it's a process running on your computer.

[GetDatEth]

I think I'm done with Winminer for a few days till they sort out idle business. GTX1080 rig, gone idle. I can't keeping manning rigs to make a buck..

You have several posts to try and responded to so I'll try and help as much as possible.

For the idle mining can you verify what mining mode you are running under, automatic, manual, farm. Automatic mode will mine as long as it detects that your system is idle for the allotted time, default 5 min. If it's a dedicated rig this in my experience is the worst mode to run in. Manual mode you hit start and it will mine until you hit stop, for mixed use machines this is the ideal mode in my experience. Farm mode is the best for running a dedicated mining rig.

You stated you were getting disconnect messages. Did you have the option to show command screen enabled and received the error there? If yes do you know what coin it was mining? Did you send an email to support at WinMiner.com to alert them of the outage? If/when a pool goes offline the system will retry automatically and move to a new pool after x number of attempts. If you are like me, you are impatient and don't want to wait for the x number to happen. In this scenario it's best to go into the coin tab and choose manual and deselect the coin that is currently offline, don't forget to re-enable it after the pool is back up though. If you sent an email to support they normally respond to let you know the pool is back up and thank you for reporting it.

I can't give you any advice on why you can only mine for 10-15 min as we have many machines that have been running WinMiner for months without issues. I'd see if you can narrow it down to a specific miner, coin, or if it's a process running on your computer.

I had it on Auto, will try manual. From the description, I think it will resolve that issue.

The random GPU dying may have been a result of not setting the PCIe speeds to Gen1/2.. testing now. But it seems with the blockchain drivers, it'll olnly allow max of 4 cards running on Gen 3.

[GetDatEth]

I think I'm done with Winminer for a few days till they sort out idle business. GTX1080 rig, gone idle. I can't keeping manning rigs to make a buck..

I had it on Auto, will try manual. From the description, I think it will resolve that issue.

The random GPU dying may have been a result of not setting the PCIe speeds to Gen1/2.. testing now. But it seems with the blockchain drivers, it'll olnly allow max of 4 cards running on Gen 3.

Update: Setting to manual resolved issue or idling.

Changing PCIe to Gen 2 speeds resolved issue of cards randomly dying.

Thanks all