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

[hawks5999]

Great work implementing the 3%speed tweek! Loving it on my 6990!
Works great! Guys tip him if you can!

Agree on the tipping. I think 1.867 would make a great tip in honor of the year that Canada was formed (1867). These enhancements are great and Guiminer makes my operation loads easier. Thanks for implementing my request, Kiv.

[airdata]

I got an antivirus autoprotect warning about a bitcoin-miner.exe file...

Should I be worried about that?

[Roland68]

SAme warning .... it s in the ufasoft miner ...

deleted ...i'm not using this miner aniway

[Yatta99]

Very nice and appreciated, but weird. I made the changes to the old miner (20110614) when they were announced but never saw any increase  After putting in the new miner and changing nothing else I went from 196 Mhash/s to 209 Mhash/sec (roughly 6.6% improvement). Not sure how or why this works and the other didn't, but I'll take it 

[Kiv]

No, it's a false positive so you don't need to worry. But if you're not using that EXE (it's the CPU miner) then it's fine to delete it.

I got an antivirus autoprotect warning about a bitcoin-miner.exe file...

Should I be worried about that?

[murfshake]

I love this program, thank you so much!  Only thing I would like added would be if it saved the size of the actual GUIMiner window.  I have 7 tabs of pools in my GUIMiner list, and have to re-size the program each time I open it. 

Thank's again!

[Kiv]

Maybe you knew this already, but if you have the summary tab open you can just click the miner name in there to go to that miner. I actually use that most of the time instead of clicking the tabs.

[erek]

what's the advantage of having a default affinity for cpu 0?

[fascistmuffin]

Great performance increase with this new version.

If I could make a suggestion though, maybe the extra flags textbox should be on a line of it's own. The fallback flags really fill that space up.

[anodyne]

I seem to fail at using a pool with different port as backup for an "other" pool. It appends the port specified in the field, and leaving that blank makes poclbm refuse to start so it doesn't help adding the port for the main pool in the address field.

[anodyne]

what's the advantage of having a default affinity for cpu 0?

Mining multiple GPUs mostly causes a lot of CPU use, so forcing all miners to the use same core keeps the total CPU load down.

[Kiv]

I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to do. I'll try to paraphrase:

Your primary pool is an "other" pool with some port specified in the Port text box (let's say 8333).
Your backup pool has a different port than 8333, let's say 8332.

For me, I am able to put it in the extra flags like this and have it work:

--backup=Kiv.GPU:mypass@api.bitcoin.cz:8332

The port for the backup pool is supplied by me after the colon, while the port for the primary will come from the Port text box. Let me know if this helps at all, maybe I misunderstand or you're having a different issue

I seem to fail at using a pool with different port as backup for an "other" pool. It appends the port specified in the field, and leaving that blank makes poclbm refuse to start so it doesn't help adding the port for the main pool in the address field.

[anodyne]

I was trying to set up a backup for an Eligius miner, which I have to define manually with port 8337, and when it tries to connect to the backup it tries to reach backup-pool.com:8332:8337.

Scratch that. It works now. Probably left something I shouldn't when I shortened the address after using cut and paste from the console to look it up after starting a miner configured for the backup pool...

[zoro]

nice work! i love this software
one request though:
it would be extremely useful if i can just clone an existing tab-worker (right clicking the tab) than create a new one.
since in my rigs i have always more than 2 workers
thanks

[c_k]

Excellent work, one thing - bitcoins.lc is misspelt in the list in the app as "bitcoin.lc"

[airdata]

whoa.... 325mh on my wifes computer with a 5830 ;p NICE.

[hawks5999]

nice work! i love this software
one request though:
it would be extremely useful if i can just clone an existing tab-worker (right clicking the tab) than create a new one.
since in my rigs i have always more than 2 workers
thanks

+1

[hennessy]

The summary tab is showing me "connecting..." for every worker, but in fact is already mining. The accepted shares go up and GPU usage is at 99% as well. If I stop the worker and restart it, the mh/s rate is show for about two seconds, then switches again to "Connecting...". Any way to fix this?

Another question, does GUIMiner have a fail detection to restart the miner automatically if it locks up (or can the backup option somehow be abused for this)?

[erek]

BTCguild no longer has The Netherlands server (NL1/NL2 have been consolidated into DE/DE2)

[deepceleron]

2011-07-01 is 25% slower on nvidia in OpenCL.