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

[makkica]

Anyone knows why i get this screen when trying to mine electroneum with the latest version of Cast XMR?
https://i.snag.gy/Vy2lWw.jpg

[SpceGhst]

Anyone knows why i get this screen when trying to mine electroneum with the latest version of Cast XMR?
https://i.snag.gy/Vy2lWw.jpg

Looks like an overclock error.  Turn the memory clocks down 100 and see if it works.

[Bazzaar]

Anyone knows why i get this screen when trying to mine electroneum with the latest version of Cast XMR?
https://i.snag.gy/Vy2lWw.jpg

I bet its nothing to do with the fact its mining Electroneum, probably does it with any CryptonightV7 coin.
You are just running too hot, too high intensity setting, too high voltage, too high clock speeds, not enough cooling.

Baz

[makkica]

Thank you for the replies.

The clocks are unchanged since i bought the rig and the issue appeared with the latest version 1.2.0.

Now i tried with 1.0.0 and everything works fine...

The same thing appeared when i was trying another one miner with the intensity option, when it was set to much.
I totally overlooked the intensity option in the new versions. I will try to reduce the intensity and try again.

[SpceGhst]

Thank you for the replies.

The clocks are unchanged since i bought the rig and the issue appeared with the latest version 1.2.0.

Now i tried with 1.0.0 and everything works fine...

The same thing appeared when i was trying another one miner with the intensity option, when it was set to much.
I totally overlooked the intensity option in the new versions. I will try to reduce the intensity and try again.

When you shutdown your miner and change a setting, always restart the rig before starting the mining program.

[makkica]

Thanks for the tip.


The intensity was set to 9 and now i reduced it to 7 and this fixed the issue.

Thank you for helping me to solve the problem.

[zeef]

Thank you for the replies.

The clocks are unchanged since i bought the rig and the issue appeared with the latest version 1.2.0.

Now i tried with 1.0.0 and everything works fine...

The same thing appeared when i was trying another one miner with the intensity option, when it was set to much.
I totally overlooked the intensity option in the new versions. I will try to reduce the intensity and try again.

When you shutdown your miner and change a setting, always restart the rig before starting the mining program.

What settings are you talking about? OC setings?

thaks

[DonGato]

I am unable to earn coins as estimated by any calculator for my hashing power. I am earning less that 25% coins of the estimated earnings per day calculated by all profitability calculators. I have tried using couple of different pools but no improvement.

I am running a Powercolor Red Dragon vega 56 with samsung memory, doing 1650 H/s mining graft coins, AMD Radeon Drivers v18.4.1 with cast xmr 1.1.5 latest version, windows 10 ver. 1709 build 16299.461. Miner is stable with no crashes & 100% good results.

I have followed the guide at vega.miningguides.com to setup my vega. I have still not used powerplay tables, but i intend to do it a later stage.

Can someone help me in finding why i am not able to earn close to estimated coins per day as reported by profitability calculators? Is there something additional that needs to be done?

1650h/s on a samsung vega? your doing something wrong. Per chance do you have a monitor plugged into this vega? bc you cant do that and mine at full speed. also calculators are junk. they are based on a perfect purely theoretical yield. as if all the coins mined that day were evenly distributed based on hash rate, not how it works in reality. your payout will vary wildly day to day somedays it may be higher than the calculator. Also with only one vega you should try to be on the largest pool of the coin your mining for a more even payout.

Yes the hash rates are too low i am aware. I am running this at stock setting without any modifications. I set this up by referring vega.miningguide.com website, i still have to implement their powerplay overdrivetool settings yet. The reason i am still reluctant is because i am confused. They say not to use wattman at all and most of the videos and guides for vega modify using either Wattman or MSI Afterburner. I am pretty new to this and still learning what to do and how.

Plus there are 2 switches on GPU and i am unable to find what those switches do in what position. No manuals for it can be found.

BTW what should be the stock H/s on a samsung vega and what should be the expected overclocked H/s?

Its meant to be confusing, barrier to entry keeps profit for the rest of us higher . So that magical switch that is there but not there on any manual ever is a bios switch. your card has a backup bios in case you ruin one. dont touch the switch till you really know what youre doing. vega minings guide use overdrive n tool, you can use msi afterburner i would strongly recommend against using wattman it is a great source of freezing crashing and hashrate drops.

stock hashrates are about 1600-1700h/s overclocked runs from 1800-2000ish depending on memory brand. you dont need todo powerplay tables. you can just crank the memory up and get the 1900+ h/s youll just use a lot more power.

[SpceGhst]

Thank you for the replies.

The clocks are unchanged since i bought the rig and the issue appeared with the latest version 1.2.0.

Now i tried with 1.0.0 and everything works fine...

The same thing appeared when i was trying another one miner with the intensity option, when it was set to much.
I totally overlooked the intensity option in the new versions. I will try to reduce the intensity and try again.

When you shutdown your miner and change a setting, always restart the rig before starting the mining program.

What settings are you talking about? OC setings?

thaks

Even if you just quit the miner and immediately restart it, you’ll probably get a slightly lower hashrate.  If you quit to change anything, whether it’s clockrate, voltage, intensity, coin or algo, I think you’re better off restarting the rig before restarting the mining software.

[zeef]

Thank you for the replies.

The clocks are unchanged since i bought the rig and the issue appeared with the latest version 1.2.0.

Now i tried with 1.0.0 and everything works fine...

The same thing appeared when i was trying another one miner with the intensity option, when it was set to much.
I totally overlooked the intensity option in the new versions. I will try to reduce the intensity and try again.

When you shutdown your miner and change a setting, always restart the rig before starting the mining program.

What settings are you talking about? OC setings?

thaks

Even if you just quit the miner and immediately restart it, you’ll probably get a slightly lower hashrate.  If you quit to change anything, whether it’s clockrate, voltage, intensity, coin or algo, I think you’re better off restarting the rig before restarting the mining software.

Ok, never notice that but i will follow your sugestion Thanks

[DonGato]

I need Help with a cast freezing issue. I have a 9 vega rig. win 10 1709, 16gb ram 100gb page file i3 dual core 4 thread cpu.

When i start cast it freezes while its loading the gpus. sometimes it gets to the 8th on sometimes just the first, and then it pegs the cpu at 99%. I have to do a hard shut down. only way i can get it to run is by starting a cast session with just one gpu then closing it and then opening another with all 9 which works most of the time. takes like 10 tries. once its running it goes for days with no issues. but its really frustrating. i upgraded from a celeron to the i3 hoping that might fix the issue but nope, tried swapping a ton of risers, that didnt help either. I also have plenty of room togo on my PSU's before they are maxed.

[SpceGhst]

I need Help with a cast freezing issue. I have a 9 vega rig. win 10 1709, 16gb ram 100gb page file i3 dual core 4 thread cpu.

When i start cast it freezes while its loading the gpus. sometimes it gets to the 8th on sometimes just the first, and then it pegs the cpu at 99%. I have to do a hard shut down. only way i can get it to run is by starting a cast session with just one gpu then closing it and then opening another with all 9 which works most of the time. takes like 10 tries. once its running it goes for days with no issues. but its really frustrating. i upgraded from a celeron to the i3 hoping that might fix the issue but nope, tried swapping a ton of risers, that didnt help either. I also have plenty of room togo on my PSU's before they are maxed.

Not sure on your particular situation, but most problems with Cast can be resolved by reducing the intensity setting in the newer version or reducing overclock settings in all versions.

[Combat Fighter]

Anyone tried the new 18.6.1 drivers?

[P00P135]

Anyone tried the new 18.6.1 drivers?

Most people aren't dumb enough to "update" over working drivers.  Specially when the driver note mention anything about blockchain speed improvements.

[Combat Fighter]

Anyone tried the new 18.6.1 drivers?

Most people aren't dumb enough to "update" over working drivers.  Specially when the driver note mention anything about blockchain speed improvements.

Totally agree I’m still using 18.4.1 and they just work fine. 

[Marvell2]

how do you enable large pages? is it the unlock pages thing that helps for cpu mining?

I hope not

[tradingnerd]

Yes the hash rates are too low i am aware. I am running this at stock setting without any modifications. I set this up by referring vega.miningguide.com website, i still have to implement their powerplay overdrivetool settings yet. The reason i am still reluctant is because i am confused. They say not to use wattman at all and most of the videos and guides for vega modify using either Wattman or MSI Afterburner. I am pretty new to this and still learning what to do and how.

Plus there are 2 switches on GPU and i am unable to find what those switches do in what position. No manuals for it can be found.

BTW what should be the stock H/s on a samsung vega and what should be the expected overclocked H/s?

Its meant to be confusing, barrier to entry keeps profit for the rest of us higher . So that magical switch that is there but not there on any manual ever is a bios switch. your card has a backup bios in case you ruin one. dont touch the switch till you really know what youre doing. vega minings guide use overdrive n tool, you can use msi afterburner i would strongly recommend against using wattman it is a great source of freezing crashing and hashrate drops.

stock hashrates are about 1600-1700h/s overclocked runs from 1800-2000ish depending on memory brand. you dont need todo powerplay tables. you can just crank the memory up and get the 1900+ h/s youll just use a lot more power.

I am aware 1 is a bios switch, but don't know what the other switch does. There are 2 switches on my card, One at the left corner and one near the center of the card (This i assume is the bios switch but i can't tell if it's in overclocked position or safe position by default).

I am currently getting around 1650 H/s in stock, so that sound about right. My card has a samsung memory so i assume it to be good for getting good stable hashrates on overclocking. Will try overclocking and undervolting this weekend. Thanks for the headups about wattman and MSI Afterburner.

Your rig is probably fine, just some bad luck at the pools.  The calculators on pools get their results from network stats and not actual pool stats.  If the pool you’re on is running over 100 average effort (luck), then you will make less than calc says.  The pool I’m on was running average effort of 55-65% last week, so I made 2 times what calculator said, but average effort changes with every block found.

My initial problem of not being able to earn enough coins based on calculators is almost solved. I changed the pool and modified the port number to 5555. I was able to earn almost near to the calculator profitability numbers. Thank you SpceGhst for the help.

[nordmann666]

Yes the hash rates are too low i am aware. I am running this at stock setting without any modifications. I set this up by referring vega.miningguide.com website, i still have to implement their powerplay overdrivetool settings yet. The reason i am still reluctant is because i am confused. They say not to use wattman at all and most of the videos and guides for vega modify using either Wattman or MSI Afterburner. I am pretty new to this and still learning what to do and how.

Plus there are 2 switches on GPU and i am unable to find what those switches do in what position. No manuals for it can be found.

BTW what should be the stock H/s on a samsung vega and what should be the expected overclocked H/s?

Its meant to be confusing, barrier to entry keeps profit for the rest of us higher . So that magical switch that is there but not there on any manual ever is a bios switch. your card has a backup bios in case you ruin one. dont touch the switch till you really know what youre doing. vega minings guide use overdrive n tool, you can use msi afterburner i would strongly recommend against using wattman it is a great source of freezing crashing and hashrate drops.

stock hashrates are about 1600-1700h/s overclocked runs from 1800-2000ish depending on memory brand. you dont need todo powerplay tables. you can just crank the memory up and get the 1900+ h/s youll just use a lot more power.

I am aware 1 is a bios switch, but don't know what the other switch does. There are 2 switches on my card, One at the left corner and one near the center of the card (This i assume is the bios switch but i can't tell if it's in overclocked position or safe position by default).

I am currently getting around 1650 H/s in stock, so that sound about right. My card has a samsung memory so i assume it to be good for getting good stable hashrates on overclocking. Will try overclocking and undervolting this weekend. Thanks for the headups about wattman and MSI Afterburner.

Your rig is probably fine, just some bad luck at the pools.  The calculators on pools get their results from network stats and not actual pool stats.  If the pool you’re on is running over 100 average effort (luck), then you will make less than calc says.  The pool I’m on was running average effort of 55-65% last week, so I made 2 times what calculator said, but average effort changes with every block found.

My initial problem of not being able to earn enough coins based on calculators is almost solved. I changed the pool and modified the port number to 5555. I was able to earn almost near to the calculator profitability numbers. Thank you SpceGhst for the help.

BIOS Switch is always near the io bracket (Display Port HDMI Port)
and switch to io bracket = first BIOS (u can flash) and switch to other side = second Bios

the other switch (mid of card) is LED control

and u can try this .... should!! work
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/196853/powercolor-rxvega64-8192-171114

[Marvell2]

My vega Fes start out high at 2100 with -I 12 on CN heavy

but after a few mins they are down to 1900-1800

my ref 56 flashed to 64 all do 1230 max

they start at 1500 too with -I 10

THings are even lower with default intensities

Any ideas ?

I have power play settings etc, large pages and all set up

[BogdanCo]

My vega Fes start out high at 2100 with -I 12 on CN heavy

but after a few mins they are down to 1900-1800

my ref 56 flashed to 64 all do 1230 max

they start at 1500 too with -I 10

THings are even lower with default intensities

Any ideas ?

I have power play settings etc, large pages and all set up

Are you using --ratewatchdog option? If yes, delete it from .bat file.