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

[WickedSik]

Oh, I actually meant "bitcoin.exe -server" instead of bitcoind, my bad. Don't know if it makes any difference, though.

I wondered about that aswell. One would assume bitcoind.exe to be a deamon therefor usable for the server.

I have a feeling somehow it's being blocked, but I am not sure... What is a bit frustrating, is that bitcoin.exe has no console-log, and bitcoind.exe no output at all..
The console of the guiminer application doesn't help much either.

Can one set the port for the server?

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[WickedSik]

Oh, I actually meant "bitcoin.exe -server" instead of bitcoind, my bad. Don't know if it makes any difference, though.

I wondered about that aswell. One would assume bitcoind.exe to be a deamon therefor usable for the server.

I have a feeling somehow it's being blocked, but I am not sure... What is a bit frustrating, is that bitcoin.exe has no console-log, and bitcoind.exe no output at all..
The console of the guiminer application doesn't help much either.

Can one set the port for the server?

Now I'll be damned... I just re-extracted guiminer, set the port to 8333 -> connection problems, set the port back to 8332 -> It connected!

[WickedSik]

That being said... The Accepted column remains on 0(0)

EDIT:

W0000t, I have an accepted ... hash?
how much "accepted" should I have before it's reflected to my bitcoin application?

[srty]

Does GUI Miner report Mhash in base 1000 or base 1024? Just curious because I notice that GUI miner is faster by about 20 Mhash than either Phoenix and Poclbm-mod for me, and from what I hear, that shouldn't be the case.

[Dobrodav]

Does GUI Miner report Mhash in base 1000 or base 1024? Just curious because I notice that GUI miner is faster by about 20 Mhash than either Phoenix and Poclbm-mod for me, and from what I hear, that shouldn't be the case.

GUIMiner reports what poclbm (m0mchil) report to GUIMiner.

[steamboat]

hey all, new to mining and i have a couple questions. i'm running crossfired 6950's. when i select which device to run on, i can only select 1 of my cards, do i need to have two instances of the gui running at the same time? also, if you could tell me which flags i should be using for my cards that'd be a great help.

[WickedSik]

hey all, new to mining and i have a couple questions. i'm running crossfired 6950's. when i select which device to run on, i can only select 1 of my cards, do i need to have two instances of the gui running at the same time? also, if you could tell me which flags i should be using for my cards that'd be a great help.

Forgive me my ignorance, but isn't crossfiring using 2 cards as one? Would it be strange to have just one card in the list?
If not, then you just indeed have to run two miners, but the program can run both in one view. [File > New OpenCL Miner]

[Kiv]

Hi all, due to popular demand I'm preparing a version of GUIMiner that uses Phoenix as the back end. It supports all features of Phoenix including the phatk kernel, which provides higher performance than poclbm on some video cards.



I've created a separate topic for this version of the miner, so please direct any discussion about it to this thread.

[steamboat]

hey all, new to mining and i have a couple questions. i'm running crossfired 6950's. when i select which device to run on, i can only select 1 of my cards, do i need to have two instances of the gui running at the same time? also, if you could tell me which flags i should be using for my cards that'd be a great help.

Forgive me my ignorance, but isn't crossfiring using 2 cards as one? Would it be strange to have just one card in the list?
If not, then you just indeed have to run two miners, but the program can run both in one view. [File > New OpenCL Miner]

yeah, it links them and shares the workload on both cards for most programs, but i've noticed with things like this and distributed computing projects you need to run separate instances on both cards. i didn't notice the new opencl miner option, worked like a charm. thanks.

[baggos12]

Please add a "Start with windows option".
Also please put an auto start check box at ecery account tab, like these at the summary tab..
Thanks!

[Kingfihserb90]

Kiv is there any feedback you could give me about why extending the desktop to my 4th card causes the guiminer to not load?

[Oace]

I can't seem to enable my video card on this...

[IlbiStarz]

When I run it nothing happens?

[Kingfihserb90]

Really nobody has any ideas on this?

I got poclbm running and ran poclbm.py when I have 3 cards enabled it sees the 3 cards when I enable the 4th card python crashes just like guiminer.

Anyone got ideas? I would pay a bounty to fix this.

Nobody has any idea what the matter is with this?


I have determined if I "disconnect the extended display" in  "Screen resolution" in windows from the 4th card guiminer will load and work but it does not see the 4th card, however windows device manager and catalyst both do.

Any ideas?

I get the following error when I try to use gui miner

Windows 7
4 gpu cards 6950's
Windows and Catalyst see all 4 cards which are dummy plugged and crossfired.

Can anyone help me?
Kingfisherb90 on aim
isaac.mooers@gmail.com for email/gchat.

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   guiminer.exe
  Application Version:   0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   4918019c
  Fault Module Name:   StackHash_0a9e
  Fault Module Version:   0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:   00000000
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset:   72747369
  OS Version:   6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   0a9e
  Additional Information 2:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:   0a9e
  Additional Information 4:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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[bradminer]

Someone is using GUIMINER on a WIN2003 SERVER ?

I am not able "try to restart...." error message.

Thanks for any help

[V2-V3]

hey Kiv,

Thank you for this easy to use GUI for mining much easier than shortcut targets and batch files

can you add the BitClockers.com pool to the server list?

[BitMinerN8]

I was wondering about the best way to setup backup pools, specifically the use of the -f option under extra flags. I read the GUI Miner FAQ but was not 100% on understanding it completely.

If I setup accounts on 3 pools and then added a new miner tab for each, then configure the proper account/password/device info, is this valid?

Pool #1 - Extra flags: --platform=0 -v -w 128 -f30
Pool #2 - Extra flags: --platform=0 -v -w 128 -f60
Pool #3 - Extra flags: --platform=0 -v -w 128 -f90

The reason that I ask is that I noticed that when I have the two backup pools added, it seems that a small amount of mining goes to them all the time. Example:

Pool #1 - 350.3Mhash/s
Pool #2 - 2.2Mhash/s
Pool #3 - 2.2Mhash/s

Is that normal? Or is there a way to make it not mine for the 2nd/3rd pool unless the 1st pool is completely down.

[Dobrodav]

Poclbm works like that. I am did not find way to avoid that. Maybe Kiv will address to the problem of switching pools if they go down in next releases, or maybe not. At least that hash\s did not goes in wain and counts on backup pools. With -f0 -f1 i am get only a few hash\sec on -f1.

So i am recommend to use more tight -f intervals. Like -f30 -f31 -f32.

[airdata]

Hi guys,

Could somebody tell me what I need to do to keep Gguiminer running at max MH while other processes are running on the computer?  My main computer is running @ 270MH but if I open any kind of video page it drops to 80MH.  I noticed another system doing the same w\ just websites.

Thanks.

[Dobrodav]

1) Put -f lower than 30 in Extra flags field  (video and desktop will possibly become laggy)
2) And\or Disable hardware acceleration in your video player.