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July 26, 2017, 08:53:02 PM
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 Huh Hello everybody, i have a gpus mining rig on 4x Asus rog Gtx 1070  and 1 gtx 1080 Armor (MSI).
The thing is that couple hours of a day i need to use 1 of gpus to render some video, do some benchmark, play videogames ecc. Now im mining zcash with 0.3.4b miner for zec.
So the question is - how can i disable 1 gpu from mining for couple hours to use it by myself and then put it back to work?
(Maybe its a very stupid question but after googling it i found only some specific information about AMD cards only).
Thanks everyone who can help somehow! ^_^.
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July 26, 2017, 09:02:23 PM
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Q: How to select a GPU that will be used by a miner
A: Use option --cuda_devices 0 1 2 digits is id of the devices which will be used.
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July 26, 2017, 09:09:03 PM
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Very simple : the mining software have a specific option to design wich GPUs to use.
The only difficulty is the syntax : it an vary from one software to another : you have to learn the help command or to try some syntaxes.

The Cuda option work only with nVidia GPUs and don't work with all mining softwares.
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July 29, 2017, 03:01:05 PM
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I know that it is possible, but i never did it before and im not a programmer. Can somebody give me a good advice how to actually do it with using EWBF zcash cuda miner 0.3.4b?
I tried to look somewhere by myself but i cant figure out how actually do it. I apreciate every advice and help =D
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July 29, 2017, 04:31:21 PM
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hmm, you got an answer already. In you .bat file add  --cuda_devices 0   
(  Space-separated list of cuda devices. Without this option all devices are used.)

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July 29, 2017, 05:18:27 PM
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hmm, you got an answer already. In you .bat file add  --cuda_devices 0    
(  Space-separated list of cuda devices. Without this option all devices are used.)

Got it , thank you very much. Its working ^_^ thanks everybody for help and sorry for stupid question :B
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July 29, 2017, 05:18:41 PM
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i add -cuda devices in bat file and it works perfectly. i got 5 GPUs, and i mine on 4 of them when i game.
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