Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22]

[Trillium]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

Yes orders of magnitude faster, but as has come up many times here before, you'll probably need to use an older driver version.

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[haploid23]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

Yes orders of magnitude faster, but as has come up many times here before, you'll probably need to use an older driver version.

Thanks for reply. Can you please point me to what page is appropriate to start reading this thread when it comes to newer R9 series GPU? Last I've tried, these GPU's can only backtrack to certain drivers.

[Trillium]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

Yes orders of magnitude faster, but as has come up many times here before, you'll probably need to use an older driver version.

Thanks for reply. Can you please point me to what page is appropriate to start reading this thread when it comes to newer R9 series GPU? Last I've tried, these GPU's can only backtrack to certain drivers.

I would also like to know this since over the last month I've gotten rid of most of my pre-R9 cards and sure enough it doesn't work on my 280x now.

[deepceleron]

If I have an old scrypt miner with a r9 290 GPU, would that be usable to generate my address? If so, would this be magnitudes faster than using a intel quadcore with hyperthread?

Sorry for the basic question, just started dabbing into vanity addresses.

GPU address searching is done with oclvanitygen. ocl = OpenCL = computing on your video card. However, that newer GPU will have a finicky setup, requiring a specific driver version and a modded version of this program. You might search this entire thread and the "lifeboat" vanitygen thread to see if anybody has gotten that particular GPU working, to discover their settings.

[MeshCollider]

This is a really useful piece of software, thanks!

[Dabs]

Yeah, I guess this needs to be updated with the latest hardware, that or the old software version should be maintained (or archived) or packaged or something. Those older driver's may get lost one of these days, or deleted from the official AMD servers.

[Velkro]

Love vanity addresses thanks except my hardware is bad so i generate them online

[franckuestein]

Love vanity addresses thanks except my hardware is bad so i generate them online

If you need one send me a message
I can generate it without all the information thanks to the bitaddress process that you can send to me and I'm going to generate your address with my computer 

Cheers!

[SolidStateSurvivor]

I just tested http://lifeboat.com/oclvanitygen (oclvanitygen64.exe) on Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2 GB, got about 17 MKey/s. Works fine.

Device: GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation (10de)
Driver: 340.52
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.1 CUDA
Max compute units: 5
Max workgroup size: 1024
Global memory: -2147483648
Max allocation: 536870912
OpenCL compiler flags: -DPRAGMA_UNROLL -cl-nv-verbose
Loading kernel binary 2e1a31891b123f797bad2de965a42f5f.oclbin
Grid size: 2560x2048
Modular inverse: 5120 threads, 1024 ops each
Using OpenCL prefix matcher

[e1ghtSpace]

well, at least it's not complaining about a missing file anymore - progress ;)

But it says it can take minute, then nothing happens :/

It exits for some reason.

OMG. I just tried this out. It says compiling. This can take a minute or something.
Then it said Done! And then my computer crashed. It didn't turn on for 2 minutes and now the screens have no signal. Do you guys think my computer is destroyed?

Edit:
Connected screen to motherboard (bypassing Graphics Card)
Oh shit, my graphics card isn't being detected. FML. I'm going to I get into so much trouble. Fuck.
Ok rerunning Windows experience Index
Previous score: 7.6
New score: 5.6 OH SHIT IM FUCKED.

And what was the lowest score? Gaming Graphics. FROM AN R9 290X!

Edit 2:
Ok now I'm going to download Amd Catalyst Drivers again and install them. I hope this works.

Was I supposed to use oclvanityminer? Because I used oclvanitygen.

I am sorry for what has happened, but I can't be held responsible for that, you clearly have had some issues with your card(*cough* overheating *cough*).

Well I sent my card in to get repaired. It was under warranty so it's all good.
It came back today and I don't think I'll ever use this program unless it has R9 support. Which it didn't. (And I didn't know): <--bracket and a smiley face at the same time!!

[Loco]

Im new in linux and i cant find a guide on how to use oclvanity. Can someone please send a me a link? (I can use ./vanitygen -i 1Test   , for example, but i wish i could use my HD 7970 for the task... i hope it goes faster this way )
Couldn't find any guide in youtube either.

[Muhammed Zakir]

Im new in linux and i cant find a guide on how to use oclvanity. Can someone please send a me a link? (I can use ./vanitygen -i 1Test   , for example, but i wish i could use my HD 7970 for the task... i hope it goes faster this way )
Couldn't find any guide in youtube either.

You can use it is same way. If you get any error, try to make a screenshot, upload and post here.

Kindly,
     MZ

[Loco]

Im new in linux and i cant find a guide on how to use oclvanity. Can someone please send a me a link? (I can use ./vanitygen -i 1Test   , for example, but i wish i could use my HD 7970 for the task... i hope it goes faster this way )
Couldn't find any guide in youtube either.

You can use it is same way. If you get any error, try to make a screenshot, upload and post here.

Kindly,
     MZ

When i folowed the guide about vanitygen, i did a command call "make". Im not sure if i have to do the same thing here. (also i read something about "opencl" ). Any idea of what im missing here? thanks for helping me.

http://subefotos.com/ver/?4cd0a58cf14385af6a8dbe6fc820c588o.png
EDIT: here is what happen when i try to "make" oclvanitygen
http://subefotos.com/ver/?1775edd33f715962a801d6feb1e8a9f7o.png

http://thumbs.subefotos.com/4cd0a58cf14385af6a8dbe6fc820c588o.jpg

[Mirdude]

I am going to try this out later on today.

[arieq]

Im using intel core i7, it took 4 days for me to generate 5 charaters of my own. I want to generate a new address, any suggestions how to make it faster ?

[Muhammed Zakir]

Im using intel core i7, it took 4 days for me to generate 5 charaters of my own. I want to generate a new address, any suggestions how to make it faster ?

A graphics card would help a lot. For me it took just about 1 hour to generate six characters. Can you tell me how much keys are you getting per sec?

Kindly,
      MZ

[LtPaxIV]

im using a 5850 and a 7850 and am getting 35 Mh/s average on the 2 cards together

[Loco]

oclengine.c:37:19 fatal error: CL/cl.h: No such file or directory

Does someone know what is that error? i cant compile :/

EDIT: i installed opencl-headers that seems i needed. now i have another problem, posting photo
EDIT2: solved the other problem. Now i dont understand what i see:

"~/Downloads/vanity $ ./oclvanitygen -d 0 1Test
Difficulty: 264104224
[8.40 Mkey/s][total 264241152][Prob 63.2%][75% in 12.1s]                       Match idx: 0
CPU hash: ed853c685dd4195eb6c1f8d7c4bd612963696eca
GPU hash: 050a6ef3ae74c30032afaebb41cfce39c15f43b5
Found delta: 1439972 Start delta: 73924609
[8.52 Mkey/s][total 424673280][Prob 80.0%][80% in 0.0s]                        Match idx: 0
CPU hash: 3b7a7c01a5cfbe973125b859c9f31d0ae9824b9e
GPU hash: 050a6ef5932b2871b68a46bdbbaceb1237ebea8c
Found delta: 504296 Start delta: 53477377
Match idx: 0
CPU hash: d360ef49bbd7c5be871d3786eb5a94781a7ab5d7
GPU hash: 050a6ef0ffdb85b40c87c53d13a6464523ce814f
Found delta: 1270427 Start delta: 3145729
[8.36 Mkey/s][total 635437056][Prob 91.0%][95% in 18.6s]  "

when I use "./vanitygen ....  " it gives me the private key and the public. Why here it doesn't ? Thanks for your time

[LtPaxIV]

if u use vanitygen it does it using the cpu,if u use oclvanitygen it will use ur gpu,by the lines u posted it means it doesnt work with ur gpu

[Loco]

if u use vanitygen it does it using the cpu,if u use oclvanitygen it will use ur gpu,by the lines u posted it means it doesnt work with ur gpu

it would work if i change my graphic card for a 7970? (i have a 6670 here )