[ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.6.2 (Linux / Windows)

[RealSwissMiner]

Works great on my 1070 rig, no stability issues after 2 days and roughly 4% speed increase compared to EWBF. Power consumption seems to be similar I only have GPU-Z values for now.

More than happy to pay the 2% dev fee and support the active development of this miner.

[santan]

Maybe, this could help someone.  This service took more than 50% of my CPU (microsoft software protection platform service)  and this was the cause of ZM crashing I think.

Now everything is stable and I get more SOLs after disabling it like in this manual >>> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3259400/microsoft-software-protection-platform-service-high-cpu.html

"Just found out how to resolve this very annoying issue:
Open regedit,
go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sppsvc
Modify "Start" from "whatever number is here" to 4
This will disable the service after you restart.
No more CPU wastage"

Is this service something important, will I have problems after disabling it ? Thanks

You are not supposed to do that.... Perhaps you won't be able to open.... Outlook and word and other Microsoft Office programs... just check their license.

[halker2010]

I can't really make it work what ever i do it says connect failed: 10060 with 2x1070 and 1x1080.

[dstm]

I can't really make it work what ever i do it says connect failed: 10060 with 2x1070 and 1x1080.

Take a look at the posts above.

[FloppyPurpleGherkin]

I'm struggling to get this working on a few rigs, I can't install MS visual studio 2015 redist as it throws me a 'unspecified error' when installing... I've read I need to allow Windows (I use W10 x64) to auto update etc but I refuse to allow W10 to do as it pleases because it just takes the piss and does as it wants lol

Is there anywhere I can download just the .DLL files from the ms visual studio 2015 redist that are missing to get this running?

Cheers

[Brzina]

Maybe, this could help someone.  This service took more than 50% of my CPU (microsoft software protection platform service)  and this was the cause of ZM crashing I think.

Now everything is stable and I get more SOLs after disabling it like in this manual >>> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3259400/microsoft-software-protection-platform-service-high-cpu.html

"Just found out how to resolve this very annoying issue:
Open regedit,
go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sppsvc
Modify "Start" from "whatever number is here" to 4
This will disable the service after you restart.
No more CPU wastage"

Is this service something important, will I have problems after disabling it ? Thanks

You are not supposed to do that.... Perhaps you won't be able to open.... Outlook and word and other Microsoft Office programs... just check their license.

Those are mining machines, so great No word, no outlook here I GOT 100 MORE   sols per rig after disabling this shit

[PickAxe131]

Maybe, this could help someone.  This service took more than 50% of my CPU (microsoft software protection platform service)  and this was the cause of ZM crashing I think.

Now everything is stable and I get more SOLs after disabling it like in this manual >>> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3259400/microsoft-software-protection-platform-service-high-cpu.html

"Just found out how to resolve this very annoying issue:
Open regedit,
go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sppsvc
Modify "Start" from "whatever number is here" to 4
This will disable the service after you restart.
No more CPU wastage"

Is this service something important, will I have problems after disabling it ? Thanks

You are not supposed to do that.... Perhaps you won't be able to open.... Outlook and word and other Microsoft Office programs... just check their license.

Those are mining machines, so great No word, no outlook here I GOT 100 MORE   sols per rig after disabling this shit

worked. Got stable 735-750 Sol/s with 80% powerlimit

[raven1322]

induktor,

card: 1 x1080 Ti
...
Hash rate at top efficiency: 600 Sols average  (15 Sols more than EWBF miner)
...

Is it a joke or a mistake? 1080Ti should give u from 750 to 790 sol (in OC mode) and from 695 to 750 (in non-OC mode) on EWFB. What 600 Sol/s are u talking about, man?

Top eficiency means, maximum hashrate at the lowest possible power usage (hash/Watts)
unless you don't pay for electricity, i pay a fortune for power, so i keep my miners at top efficiency all the time to get maximum profit.

At least so far is what i got, still have to test other drivers/miners, but everything so far points to 600 Sols at 140 watts (155 at the wall)

I agree with efficiency being a huge factor specially when power is expensive. That being said, how’d you manage a 1080Ti to pull only 140W? Can’t go below 200W on my strix oc’s..

Driver 384 will do it, 381 and earlier has some weird issues with the power target limit.

alright, its been a while since i last updated the drivers. thanks a lot for the information.

[alnash]

The latest version on Lin:

Code:

$ ./zcash-zm.sh 
./zm: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by ./zm)
./zm: /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by ./zm)
Could not resolve hostname eu1.zcash-flypool.org

[dstm]

The latest version on Lin:

Code:

$ ./zcash-zm.sh 
./zm: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by ./zm)
./zm: /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by ./zm)
Could not resolve hostname eu1.zcash-flypool.org

There is no dns entry for 'eu1.zcash-flypool.org'
Try 'eu1-zcash.flypool.org'

[yobigd20]

Maybe, this could help someone.  This service took more than 50% of my CPU (microsoft software protection platform service)  and this was the cause of ZM crashing I think.

Now everything is stable and I get more SOLs after disabling it like in this manual >>> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3259400/microsoft-software-protection-platform-service-high-cpu.html

"Just found out how to resolve this very annoying issue:
Open regedit,
go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sppsvc
Modify "Start" from "whatever number is here" to 4
This will disable the service after you restart.
No more CPU wastage"

Is this service something important, will I have problems after disabling it ? Thanks

That's interesting because I noticed the SAME EXACT THING with this Microsoft software protection service when I ran zm. I went back to ewbf.

[Namiks]

Is there currently an option to remove the fee?

These closed-source miners with built-in fees go against everything crypto is for.

[dstm]

Is there currently an option to remove the fee?

These closed-source miners with built-in fees go against everything crypto is for.

No there isn't.

[BadAstroZA]

Is there a recommended NVIDIA driver version for the Windows release?

Also: here, take my dev fee. Thanks for facilitating the fastest, most power-efficient Equihash miner currently available. Most people are reporting 4-8% increase over ewbf, who is completely inactive at the moment (probably picking out his fifth lambo) so if you're shaving a couple % off the top while we're all better off, then hey. Enjoy the dev fee.

[dstm]

Is there a recommended NVIDIA driver version for the Windows release?

Also: here, take my dev fee. Thanks for facilitating the fastest, most power-efficient Equihash miner currently available. Most people are reporting 4-8% increase over ewbf, who is completely inactive at the moment (probably picking out his fifth lambo) so if you're shaving a couple % off the top while we're all better off, then hey. Enjoy the dev fee.

On linux: 375.66, 384.90, 387.12 perform equal.
I had no time to test this on windows yet.

[yemiforu]

i will like to  know more about zcash project

[QuaLiTyX]

So far it's working great on my rigs

[Jimmy Winberg]

Im running ethOS and was wondering if anyone else have installed dstm miner on it? If yes please let me know the steps, im new to ethOS and linux.

[zooryme]

Is it possible to color text in the miner consol?

[Andrey09]

@dstm: First of all thanks for your hard work.

Secondly, your miner started erroring out after a few hours please see below. Any ideas?
https://pasteboard.co/GQ46rCZ.png

I have the same problem on all rigs, after 8-24 hours ;( I do not believe that on all 14 computers with 4-8 video cards there is a problem with overclocking.
rcv error.

Please add autorestart option in the miner if error appear or miner detect what current value hash rate seriously fell from the avarage hash rate value. Try to restart the miner 10 times, if the work does not resume displaying the message, that an error is detected - check your equipment.

Or turn off the thread of the problematic video card from miner. And to display the message that the video card number XX is not stable, perhaps you need to reduce overclocking or check the card.


Overlocked gpus, all 14 rigs stop work in differebt time, from 8 to 48 hours.  
On EWBF stable work 20 days. +-

Tnx for your work.