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

[Ollie]

Hello.

I am getting about 7 Mh/s running on GUIMiner on Intel i5 CPU and about 5 Mh/s running on CUDA. My GPU is Geforce GT 415M. Shouldn't the GPU be much faster than CPU? What could be the problem?

[Nachtwind]

I take it the M in its name means its a mobile. If so it is very well possible that it is that "slow".
I have, for example, a 4850 with roughly 70MHash, and a 4670 mobile with 20.

Also NVIdia isnt that fast anyway.
But you can check: Have you selected your GPU as device and CUDA for mining?

[fcmatt]

kiv,

i am not sure if this will help or not but i think by default the bitcoin program does not
allow connections on 127.0.0.1 by default in server mode. I was playing around with your
older version of guiminer on XP and had bitcoin installed. I used your program to create a solo
password and it created the bitcoin.conf file but did not add rpcallowip-all or whatever it is
line in the conf file.

Until I added that guiminer would not connect. I have to wonder if you had your program add
that line or check for it when running in server mode for the first time it would stop the cannot
connect/rpc issue we see here all the time.

but perhaps i am wrong.. dunno. just tossing it out there.

[yetis]

I am using GUI-Miner and i want to have a feature built in.

Pool-Switching in case when a pool is down. (Time-based after 2 retries for about 20 seconds, editable, favourites, etc.)

Is it possible to include this in one of your next releases?

[Nortelfish]

Kiv -

Is it possible for me to perform BTC mining from a Windows XP VM (valid Workstation 7 license) using my Radeon 5870?  I cant seem to get GUIMiner 5.21 to recognize anything beyond one processor on my host i7 machine.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or if it simply cannot be done?

Thanks for the n00b help.

James

[Kiv]

I think you're probably right. I don't add the rpcallowip=* when creating the bitcoin.conf, and the old version I'm using now of the client (0.3.20) doesn't require it. I'll try updating my client and look into it for the next version

kiv,

i am not sure if this will help or not but i think by default the bitcoin program does not
allow connections on 127.0.0.1 by default in server mode. I was playing around with your
older version of guiminer on XP and had bitcoin installed. I used your program to create a solo
password and it created the bitcoin.conf file but did not add rpcallowip-all or whatever it is
line in the conf file.

Until I added that guiminer would not connect. I have to wonder if you had your program add
that line or check for it when running in server mode for the first time it would stop the cannot
connect/rpc issue we see here all the time.

but perhaps i am wrong.. dunno. just tossing it out there.

[Kiv]

You can have a backup pool using the -f switch; see the FAQ in the first post for details. I'm not interested in implementing anything more complicated because I don't want to clutter the interface.

I am using GUI-Miner and i want to have a feature built in.

Pool-Switching in case when a pool is down. (Time-based after 2 retries for about 20 seconds, editable, favourites, etc.)

Is it possible to include this in one of your next releases?

[Kiv]

I haven't heard of anyone getting it to work. You can try downloading GPU Caps Viewer and see if OpenCL is available from within the VM.

What's your host system? You could also try running it directly in Linux from source. I don't officially support this but a few people have reported success.

Kiv -

Is it possible for me to perform BTC mining from a Windows XP VM (valid Workstation 7 license) using my Radeon 5870?  I cant seem to get GUIMiner 5.21 to recognize anything beyond one processor on my host i7 machine.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or if it simply cannot be done?

Thanks for the n00b help.

James

[shivansps]

Excellent, you known what is its the only thing it lacks? an automated way to set cpu affinity of miners.

[Nortelfish]

My host is Windows 7.  I just tried the GPU Caps Viewer and (sadly) it only sees the generic VGA driver that VM Workstation has forced upon me.

Can you point me to anybody that has had success with a VM configuration and mining with their host GPU?

Thanks again!

James

I haven't heard of anyone getting it to work. You can try downloading GPU Caps Viewer and see if OpenCL is available from within the VM.

What's your host system? You could also try running it directly in Linux from source. I don't officially support this but a few people have reported success.

Kiv -

Is it possible for me to perform BTC mining from a Windows XP VM (valid Workstation 7 license) using my Radeon 5870?  I cant seem to get GUIMiner 5.21 to recognize anything beyond one processor on my host i7 machine.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or if it simply cannot be done?

Thanks for the n00b help.

James

[Dobrodav]

Last version of bitcoin client have known issues with solo mining under windows.
If you soloing under windows, its better to use previous version.

[fcmatt]

Last version of bitcoin client have known issues with solo mining under windows.
If you soloing under windows, its better to use previous version.

i have to wonder if that is because -server mode does not allow connections by default
and trying to figure out that you need rpcallowip=all or what not in bitcoin.conf would fix it.
i am running the newest version of both programs at home right now and they work fine.
windows xp, nvidia 8800GT (just for fun/testing), and which is odd, the cuda miner, does
rather poorly compared to the default miner. But the default miner chews up 100% cpu while
the cuda does not.

[quattro]

Hi Kiv,

Any ideas on this issue I'm having:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3878.msg192377#msg192377

I'm runing windows 7 ultimate 64 bit ... clean install with all updates, updated java, and latest version of guiminer.

I've seen others having this problem as well:
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3878.msg145258#msg145258

Thanks!

[m00rphine]

I'm now able to mine for bitcoins at a pool and I selected my graphics card in the device section but when I ctrl+alt+del it shows that the program is using 25% of the CPU too and after a while my laptop shuts down. The file in question is podbm.exe.

[shivansps]

there is any way to remove the "missing logo.ico" error?

[MOCT]

I hope someone can help me with a problem I've been having with guiminer on a 890fxa-gd70.
I can run 3 6870s no problem.  But when I install a 4th 6870, guiminer crashes when I start it with this error:
...
I'm running 11.5 ati drivers with 2.4 sdk.  I ran the ati driver install with all the cards plugged into monitors.  All four card show up in windows including gpu-z.  GPU-z shows that OpenCL is available on all 4 cards.

1. Which version of Windows do you use? You may have problems with "Program Files" folder under 64bit Windows. Solution: move your guiminer to another folder or use 32bit Windows.
2. Connective two cards with two(!) CrossfireX cables and enable CrossfireX in Catalyst Control Center (Perfomance->AMD Crossfirex configuration)
3. Start GUIminer

If you have any questions - PM me.

[MOCT]

there is any way to remove the "missing logo.ico" error?

Create file "logo.ico" in GUIminer folder (copy bitcoin.ico to logo.ico, for example). Or reinstall GUIminer.

[yetis]

You can have a backup pool using the -f switch; see the FAQ in the first post for details. I'm not interested in implementing anything more complicated because I don't want to clutter the interface.

I am using GUI-Miner and i want to have a feature built in.

Pool-Switching in case when a pool is down. (Time-based after 2 retries for about 20 seconds, editable, favourites, etc.)

Is it possible to include this in one of your next releases?

Thx for the reply.

Thought it would be a good feature for all people using GUI-Miner, when a pool is down and the miner switches through pools automatically.

Well, then i have to write my own GUI-Miner, even though i am a very lazy programmer.
(When i think about the whole lines to write in Masm with RadASM... uargh!...)

[xlev]

Hi

Im have a Ati Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card and running Win7. I have installed all sorts of drivers, opencl and god knows
what more, but guiminer does not recognize my graphics card. Can anyone help me please? Im currently mining with my CPU
at 1mhash/s which is too slow.

I would really appreciate your help.

BTW I will send 1BTC to anyone that can solve my problem.

Cheers

Alex

[hex]

I updated from 20110521 to latest and now I have 330MH insted of 400MH on my 6950@950

Can anyone explain that ?