GUI mining - updated Dec 3 with 7970 bugfix, also supports Stratum!

[monsterblitz]

Hi guys,

I was under the impression that GUI miner now supports Phoenix & phatk, but when I click on it as stated in the guide I get an error message saying it's unsupported - am I missing something? Running the latest version....

Cheers.

Changelog:
20121203
- Update poclbm with bugfix for issue #54

20121118
- Update poclbm to latest miner including Stratum support.
- Fix rejected/stale counter not incrementing properly.
- For solo mining, accept bitcoin-qt.exe or any other *.exe file for client instead of just bitcoin.exe.
- For solo mining, add option to set bitcoin data directory, in case it's not in the default location.
- Remove Phoenix 1 support since it's no longer maintained.


You will need to use an older version.  It appears the guide has not been updated.

[PatMan]

Ah! Bloody hell - thanks for that. It's a bit misleading when the option to use it is still in the actual program.....

[BTCHashers]

At first it told me I needed to install ati sdk so i did

No everytime I try to open it, nothing comes up

[crazyearner]

How do i get this to use scrypt and not stratum???

[CubedRoot]

Can anyone suggest the right flags to use with the december version of GUIminer and an HD7970?  I am running it on mine, with good speeds, but it will routinely stop working for a second or 2 once a share is submitted, causing my miner to pause until it begins a new share.  I've never seen it do this on my other rigs running 5970's.   

It will give the "warning, job finished, Tahiti is idle" and then jump back to hashing shortly after.

[Mir]

I am still getting message
Any Help please ?

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2056, in save_config
  File "json\__init__.pyo", line 231, in dumps
  File "json\encoder.pyo", line 201, in encode
  File "json\encoder.pyo", line 264, in iterencode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 15: invalid continuation byte

[tonto]

Can anyone suggest the right flags to use with the december version of GUIminer and an HD7970?  I am running it on mine, with good speeds, but it will routinely stop working for a second or 2 once a share is submitted, causing my miner to pause until it begins a new share.  I've never seen it do this on my other rigs running 5970's.   

It will give the "warning, job finished, Tahiti is idle" and then jump back to hashing shortly after.

For flags I run -v 1 -w 256
 
I dunno what is the best, but that's what I ran with diablo's miner

[thepwnorbpwnd]

I'm having problems with my guiminer on my gaming rig. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it, was working one minute, closed and saved, rebooted, tried to start and now it won't come out of the bottom right task tray.

My thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=141255.0

[Cyrus]

I'm having problems with my guiminer on my gaming rig. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it, was working one minute, closed and saved, rebooted, tried to start and now it won't come out of the bottom right task tray.

My thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=141255.0

Look here.
Also posted in the FAQ.

[PatronDragon]

I have two cards 7970 and 5870 With 7970 in GUIminer all OK. but 5870 badly holds it is started and goes out! Any can HELP me?

[Roddy5690]

Hi, I'm having difficulty with guiminer. I can open it up, and it appears in my system tray (not my taskbar, so it isn't the bug that many people will assume it to be). However I can't open the window. I've already tried reinstalling it but to no avail.

Please help!!

Thanks,

Roddy.

[alberthrocks]

GUIMiner no longer works after I moved directories.
From the error, it seems that you should handle these errors and simply mark the section of the mining config as invalid, and ask the user to fix it.

Code:

ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2478, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1893, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 2129, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 1008, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 679, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 896, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2487, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 2478, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1893, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 2129, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 1008, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 679, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 896, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Fixed by editing C:\[Users OR Docs and Settings]\[user]\Application Data\poclbm\poclbm.ini[/ii] and setting the correct path for the mining profile.

[nameface]

Hi, I'm having difficulty with guiminer. I can open it up, and it appears in my system tray (not my taskbar, so it isn't the bug that many people will assume it to be). However I can't open the window. I've already tried reinstalling it but to no avail.

Please help!!

Thanks,

Roddy.

+1

[MaGNeT]

Saw this video about GUIminer online, I guess it's easy for starters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiFkql5_Sws

[50BTC.com]

Hello, Kiv!

Almost year has passed from the time when we've asked you to add our pool to the Guiminer. This poses a problem?
If so, then we are ready to help you.

Thanks.

[HappyScamp]

Where do I get OpenCL.dll, How do I open THAT and then where does it go?

Can't somebody write a frickin download that will do that automatically?
Why isn't it in the miner to begin with?

Is this 1993 or what?

[Smoovious]

Where do I get OpenCL.dll, How do I open THAT and then where does it go?

Can't somebody write a frickin download that will do that automatically?
Why isn't it in the miner to begin with?

Is this 1993 or what?

need someone to wipe your ass for you too?

-- Smoov

[tacotime]

Where do I get OpenCL.dll, How do I open THAT and then where does it go?

Can't somebody write a frickin download that will do that automatically?
Why isn't it in the miner to begin with?

Is this 1993 or what?

OpenCL.dll is vendor specific, you need to get it from the AMD drivers and APP SDK

For anyone interested, I forked guiminer to make one for litecoin.  Link is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0

[bc4md]

1.  I down loaded

Download latest version (Windows):
  guiminer-20121203.exe (self-extracting archive)

NP the programs seems to be working.

2.  My Video card is a XFX black edition 7970
MSI afterburner only allows me to modify Fan speed
AMD Catalyst seems to work fine.

I've tried various flags.
I believe I'm using phatk2.  I do not know for sure.
Nor do I know how to tell.

3.  The problem is my GUI miner seems to work fine for about 20 mins then goes from 500+Mhash down to Khash.  Yet once it drops I don't seem to be generating nothing.  Like the system is still running my miner but I have 0 GPU activity at that point.  If I cklick stop mining then start again everything is fine for another 20 mins.  Problem does not seem to be in my flags.  I think it's a program issue of some type. 

I have a very basic system other than the video card and 950W Power supply.
Running Windows 7

Can someone help me so I can get this figured out.  I have been all over the forum trying to find answers and I have been trying different flags for the last 2 day's.  However, same thing does not matter what flag I use I get the same results the miner continues but the GPU activity stops.

BTW If you send me a personal message I will be able to read it but not sure if I can respond because I may not have enough posts.

Thanks to anyone that will help.  BTW I don't have much but I can try to donate some amount of BC

[Sannyasi]

I'm having the same problem as the guy above me. I was mining fine until I added a third card. now after 10 minutes of mining i drop into the k/hashes from 1 G/hash and eventually I get plain old 'connection problems' and the only solution is restarting the miner. It's also not accepting any shares or stales and deepbit doesn't show that I'm mining at all. Help please?