[Cast XMR] high speed XMR/CryptoNight miner for RX Vega GPUs (2 KHash/s)

[ihack13]

General question: is the GPU numbering in OverdriveNtool the same as in the Cast XMR miner?
I'm trying to troubleshoot and optimise GPUs... But I'm dabbing in the dark as I've got no idea if I'm applying the correct clocks to the respective cards...

No idea about numbering.

I have 0 listed as Polaris and 1 listed as Tahiti in atiflash -i

When I type -G 0 it would give me an error that Tahiti is not supported. When I choose 1 it works.
Not sure how it indexes the GPUs.

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[kristikun]

I tryed to update to new drivers and adrenalin drivers but in my radeon settings i dont have GPU Compute option Switch ? Vega 64 Liquid cooled sapphiron   

[borderline]

xmr stak work with all my 2 card... but cast nop..
someone have a solution?

[Njeroe]

I tryed to update to new drivers and adrenalin drivers but in my radeon settings i dont have GPU Compute option Switch ? Vega 64 Liquid cooled sapphiron   

"Vega owners won't see the Graphics/Compute switch in AMD's driver. According to company representatives, all of the features that benefit compute workloads are already enabled by default in Vega's architecture, so the switch isn't necessary."

[Chapster]

Hello glph3k,

Thank you for creating your miner.

I am unable to get it to recognize all my cards in a B250 motherboard with 13 Radeon RX 580 GPUs.
Only the first one is recognized by your program and it is as if the other ones didn't exist.

Every other program (sgminer, Claymore, etc) is able to see all the cards and properly use them.
I don't have a Crossfire option inside Radeon Settings=> Global Settings, so I doubt that would be the cause.

Could you please help me?

[xTommYx]

Hello, I have 2 questions.

1. Any plans on adding nVidia support?
I would love to see that in this miner.

2. I am using this miner on VegaFE at 2095 H/s.
Is there no way to improve the hashrate slightly more on VegaFE utilizing its 16gb memory?

[ddrr1337]

Hi guys !!.
I have found some troubles installing my 4XVEGA 56 rig.
Settings and Hardware:

Hardware:

Mother board: Gigabyte H110-D3A Bitcoin Edition Socket 1151
RAM: DDR4 8GB
125 GB SD
Power: 1000W 80 Gold  (all rig is consuming 710W)
CPU: intel celeron G3900
4 X MSI VEGA 56

Settings:

Virtual memory: 10000-60000
VEGAS settings:
-10 % core frecuency
945 memory
70ºC temp /75º max temp (fans auto)
-22 Power consuption.

With this rig I am doing 1850 h/s average for each card. Until now, no problems.

Start mining ETN on nanopool server etn-eu1.nanopool.org 13333 port. All working fine.

Somehow, after mining for a while cast-XMR is returning me that 18% of the shares are "invalid result computation failed"

Any ideas of how to fix this


Thank you all!!

[Dim314]

Can i maining xmr by home pc net. 12 pc on net. Br

[memian]

Can you add a reset by time like the reset in claymore  miner?
I think is simply and needed.

Thanks!!

[wolverine5pl]

on your website i see theres new version

Cast XMR Version 0.8.1 (2017/12/15)
Fix for OpenCL automatic platform detection for Crimson driver 17.12.1 (Adrenalin). Blockchain driver is still more performant on Vegas though

 

[johanP]

Hi all,
I?m really struggling here. I am a beginner when it comes to mining and no computer wizard either. Anyway, I have built a rig based on the ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ and I currently run it with 4 Radeon Vega 64 cards. I am using the Cast XMR Monero miner together with the AMD Blockchain driver (Version 17.30.1029).

After some trial and error, tweaking here and there and many hours reading posts in forums, Googling and Youtube watching I was able to make the rig work beautifully with 3 Vega 64 running for days and achieving hash rates between 1600-1900 H/s for each card.

However, when I added a fourth Vega 64 to the rig I am suddenly unable to get the Cast XMR miner to recognize the AMD Blockchain driver and I get the, to many, familiar error message "[Suspicious link removed]pute driver NOT detected" when I start the miner. I did run into this problem also before I got the rig working with 3 GPUs and solved it by using the method of toggling of the HBCC Memory. However, this workaround does no longer solve the problem and I end up with each of the four cards producing hash rates of around a 1000 H/s.

Do any of you bright people out there have any idea of what I should do??

Br, Johan

The rig consists of:
ASRock H110 Pro BTC+
4 Radeon Vega 64
1600W PSU
8GB Ram DDR4
Windows 10 Pro (64bit)
Virtual Memory set to 16GB

[borderline]

wow after 2 days of work i fixed my 2 vega 56.. 1900 ech and 360 w from the wall.. auto restart after 1 hours to prevent hash drop.. now i need only to buy another 6 cards
:-)

[borderline]

wow anothe little fix and now i hope work great...
if someone have my similar problem only 1 gpu recognized for me the problem was -g instead -G (case sensitive)

[ggarbi]

Yo guys
i have 6 gpu vega 64 rig
my problem is mining other coins but monero
i want to use ETN pool but i cant config it for nanopool
i have no problem to set monero config
im currently using this config :
cast_xmr-vega -S xmr-us-east1.nanopool.org:14444 -u mywallet.username/Email -G 0,1,2,3,4,5
can someone correct this for ETN mining in nanopool please.
i cant make it work

[esfomeado]

Waiting for RX 460/560 support 

[Cyan_Antares]

Hi all,
I?m really struggling here. I am a beginner when it comes to mining and no computer wizard either. Anyway, I have built a rig based on the ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ and I currently run it with 4 Radeon Vega 64 cards. I am using the Cast XMR Monero miner together with the AMD Blockchain driver (Version 17.30.1029).

After some trial and error, tweaking here and there and many hours reading posts in forums, Googling and Youtube watching I was able to make the rig work beautifully with 3 Vega 64 running for days and achieving hash rates between 1600-1900 H/s for each card.

However, when I added a fourth Vega 64 to the rig I am suddenly unable to get the Cast XMR miner to recognize the AMD Blockchain driver and I get the, to many, familiar error message "[Suspicious link removed]pute driver NOT detected" when I start the miner. I did run into this problem also before I got the rig working with 3 GPUs and solved it by using the method of toggling of the HBCC Memory. However, this workaround does no longer solve the problem and I end up with each of the four cards producing hash rates of around a 1000 H/s.

Do any of you bright people out there have any idea of what I should do??

Br, Johan

The rig consists of:
ASRock H110 Pro BTC+
4 Radeon Vega 64
1600W PSU
8GB Ram DDR4
Windows 10 Pro (64bit)
Virtual Memory set to 16GB

follow this guide (there is no need for HBCC at all, I mean dont even install AMD Settings utility, the Vega drivers is all you need), enable things like Large pages and add some extra virtual memory (for 3 Vega I'd go with 25000 or 26000):

http://vega.miningguides.com/

Add devcon.exe to restart the Vegas from time to time
https[Suspicious link removed]-without-downloading-and-installing-the-entire-windows-driver-kit-100-working-method/

Also make sure that you are using the -G parameter well.

In addition, try to make a clean install of the drivers -if you use an SSD that takes less than 5 minutes-. Go to Settings-->Update and recovery-->Restart (this will restart the OS with a recovery menu where you can choose an option to restart the system in one of the advanced menu options (I am writing this by memory) and when it is restarting keep pressing F4 it enters Safe Mode and you can uninstall the drivers using DDU.

[hozerdev]

Is it possible to mine Electroneum(ETN) with this miner?

[Django69]

Is it possible to mine Electroneum(ETN) with this miner?

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[Cyan_Antares]

But sometime it just stop mining nothing appear in the console until i hit a enter or any key and it start back.

This typically occurs when you have your Windows Command Prompt windows enabled for 'Quick Edit', and you click the mouse inside the window to focus; but this tells the Command Prompt window that you want to quick copy content.

To fix: While the miner is running, click the Command Prompt icon, go to Properties, and unselect Quick Edit. Then go back to that menu, select Defaults, and uncheck it there so future windows apply this setting.

Thanks! That fixed the only problem I was experiencing while running Cast XMR. I believe now the Vega 56 rig I built could run 24h a day without issues, but just in case..

if you want to restart miner x time due hash drop here is simple script .
my miner restart every 30 min
Ps don't close script terminal.
creat bat file and put this.
Edit set commandline and set u config

Code:

@echo off

echo -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo Restart Cast miner every 30 min
echo -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo:

set executable=cast_xmr-vega.exe
set commandline= -S youpoolhere -u youwallet here and others cmd from you bat file. %* --fastjobswitch --forcecompute
set runforseconds=1800
set restartinseconds=2
set /a counter=0
timeout 2
:start
start "cast_xmr-vega" %executable% %commandline%
echo:
echo The software will run for %runforseconds% seconds
timeout %runforseconds%
taskkill /f /im %executable%
echo:
echo Restarting the software in %restartinseconds% seconds (%counter%)
timeout %restartinseconds%
set /a counter+=1
echo:
echo:
goto start

Many thanks. This helped me immensely to make everything more stable. I made my own version of it, launching devcon.exe and OverdriveNTool so it makes everything now automatically and saved me some sleepless nights and broken stuff.

It was made placing all the programs (Cast XMR, devcon.exe and OverdriveNTool) in the same folder. Highly recommended for those who want to keep the rig running all the time -along with automated Windows start without asking for a sign in nor password, just straigth to mining).

This is the bat file I built based on FgTeamBR script, for a rig with six Vega 56 mining Monero (so change the parameters accordingly if you mine on another pool or a different criptocurrency):

cd
timeout /t 1
devcon.exe disable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F"
timeout /t 7
devcon.exe enable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F"
timeout /t 4
OverdriveNTool.exe -r1 -r2 -r3 -r4 -r5 -r6 -p1Vega56 -p2Vega56 -p3Vega56 -p4Vega56 -p5Vega56 -p6Vega56
timeout /t 1
cd

@echo off

echo -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo Restarts the miner every 40 minutes //you can set it to your own liking, of course
echo -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo:

set executable=cast_xmr-vega.exe
set commandline=  -G 0,1,2,3,4,5 -S xmr-eu1.nanopool.org:14444 -u YourWalletAddress.RigNameOfYourChoice %*
set runforseconds=2400
set restartinseconds=2
set /a counter=0
timeout 2
:start
start "cast_xmr-vega" %executable% %commandline%
echo:
echo The program is going to run for %runforseconds% seconds
timeout %runforseconds%
taskkill /f /im %executable%
cd
Mine.bat
echo:
echo Restarting the app in %restartinseconds% seconds (%counter%)
timeout %restartinseconds%
set /a counter+=1
echo:
echo:
goto start

[commonorx]

But sometime it just stop mining nothing appear in the console until i hit a enter or any key and it start back.

This typically occurs when you have your Windows Command Prompt windows enabled for 'Quick Edit', and you click the mouse inside the window to focus; but this tells the Command Prompt window that you want to quick copy content.

To fix: While the miner is running, click the Command Prompt icon, go to Properties, and unselect Quick Edit. Then go back to that menu, select Defaults, and uncheck it there so future windows apply this setting.

Thanks! That fixed the only problem I was experiencing while running Cast XMR. I believe now the Vega 56 rig I built could run 24h a day without issues, but just in case..

if you want to restart miner x time due hash drop here is simple script .
my miner restart every 30 min
Ps don't close script terminal.
creat bat file and put this.
Edit set commandline and set u config

Code:

@echo off

echo -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo Restart Cast miner every 30 min
echo -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo:

set executable=cast_xmr-vega.exe
set commandline= -S youpoolhere -u youwallet here and others cmd from you bat file. %* --fastjobswitch --forcecompute
set runforseconds=1800
set restartinseconds=2
set /a counter=0
timeout 2
:start
start "cast_xmr-vega" %executable% %commandline%
echo:
echo The software will run for %runforseconds% seconds
timeout %runforseconds%
taskkill /f /im %executable%
echo:
echo Restarting the software in %restartinseconds% seconds (%counter%)
timeout %restartinseconds%
set /a counter+=1
echo:
echo:
goto start

Many thanks. This helped me immensely to make everything more stable. I made my own version of it, launching devcon.exe and OverdriveNTool so it makes everything now automatically and saved me some sleepless nights and broken stuff.

It was made placing all the programs (Cast XMR, devcon.exe and OverdriveNTool) in the same folder. Highly recommended for those who want to keep the rig running all the time -along with automated Windows start without asking for a sign in nor password, just straigth to mining).

This is the bat file I built based on FgTeamBR script, for a rig with six Vega 56 mining Monero (so change the parameters accordingly if you mine on another pool or a different criptocurrency):

cd
timeout /t 1
devcon.exe disable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F"
timeout /t 7
devcon.exe enable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F"
timeout /t 4
OverdriveNTool.exe -r1 -r2 -r3 -r4 -r5 -r6 -p1Vega56 -p2Vega56 -p3Vega56 -p4Vega56 -p5Vega56 -p6Vega56
timeout /t 1
cd

@echo off

echo -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo Restarts the miner every 40 minutes //you can set it to your own liking, of course
echo -------------------------------------------------------------------
echo:

set executable=cast_xmr-vega.exe
set commandline=  -G 0,1,2,3,4,5 -S xmr-eu1.nanopool.org:14444 -u YourWalletAddress.RigNameOfYourChoice %*
set runforseconds=2400
set restartinseconds=2
set /a counter=0
timeout 2
:start
start "cast_xmr-vega" %executable% %commandline%
echo:
echo The program is going to run for %runforseconds% seconds
timeout %runforseconds%
taskkill /f /im %executable%
cd
Mine.bat
echo:
echo Restarting the app in %restartinseconds% seconds (%counter%)
timeout %restartinseconds%
set /a counter+=1
echo:
echo:
goto start

LOL!